Marc Joel Atrero

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

Competition for pilots is breeding unhappiness at pay disparities Ho Chi Minh would be turning over in his mausoleum in central Hanoi. While industrial action by factory workers in Vietnam is relatively common, white collar staff disrupting business is almost unheard of… until now. As the busy New Year travel season, the Lunar Tet holiday

A familiar design but a new soft product for SQ’s premium economy The release of Singapore Airlines’ much-awaited new premium economy is about more than just a class between business and the back of the bus. With a completely changed colour and brand positioning, it’s about creating an onboard product that’s completely different to anything

Indonesian air safety after QZ8501 Indonesia is meant to have made great strides in bringing its aviation industry up to world standards and the dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of Garuda Indonesia is testament to that view. But the handling of, and the fallout from, the crash of Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 on December 28

Australian air power on the world stage The Royal Australian Air Force has achieved an impressive 3,500 hours of combat operations in just 100 days in Iraq. When the centenary clocked over on January 14, the entire Air Force could be proud of the achievements of Operation Okra as part of international efforts to disrupt