Marc Joel Atrero

Over the past ten years Qantas has probably had to negotiate the toughest challenges in its long, iconic history, capped off by last year’s record $2.8 billion loss. Today, a new picture is emerging that holds glimpses of better times ahead. Has Australia’s national flag carrier finally turned the corner… or is this a false

Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown on leading the RAAF through a period of transformative change With potentially only a few months in his tenure as Chief of Air Force to run, Air Marshal Geoff Brown pauses when asked what has been his most fulfilling achievement as chief so far. “I haven’t thought

After several postponements and three years of delays Japan’s new candidate in the commercial passenger aircraft space, the Mitsubishi MRJ regional jet, is set to take to the skies for the first time in May. Tom Ballantyne spoke to the aerospace manufacturer’s president, Teruaki Kawai, in Tokyo. It hasn’t been easy, says 66-yearold Teruaki Kawai,

Australia has lost yet another regional airline, with Cairns-based Skytrans voluntarily shutting up shop It perhaps says something about the viability and importance of direct air services from Cairns to Cape York communities in Far North Queensland that local airlines have enthusiastically stepped in to fill the gap created when Skytrans closed its doors after

Qantas rolls out its new A330 business class with Asian, as much as domestic, rivals in mind New business class seats being rolled out on Qantas’s Airbus A330 fleet say as much about the ongoing evolution of the airline’s Asian network as it does about the white-hot battle with rival Virgin Australia in the domestic

Instant scrutiny, life-long repercussions The image seems frozen in time. An ATR airline category aeroplane captured in an obscene pose, nose down and wings on a knife’s edge. Seconds later the aircraft would enter the waters of the Taiwanese river and take with it the lives of sons and daughters, mothers and fathers. Another human