Marc Joel Atrero

Being a regional aviation pilot is an experience like no other There is no other country in the world where aviation is as appreciated, ingrained and necessary as Australia. Almost all of Australia’s major airlines past or present trace their heritage to regional Australia. And for 2. 6 million people living in regional Australia, air

CareFlight in the Top End melds aviation with medicine Aeromedical retrieval services have provided Northern Territorians with fast access to medical care since the early 1930s. Now more than 80 years after Dr Clyde Fenton’s pioneering medical flights out of Katherine, CareFlight has expanded its lifesaving rotary and fixed-wing operations to serve Territorians and visitors

Technology and tourism is driving a traffic boom at New Zealand’s Queenstown Airport Through the introduction of jet operations and new instrument approach procedures, Queenstown Airport has become New Zealand’s fourth busiest and its fastest-growing airport. But as recently as the late 1980s Queenstown, which sits in the shadows of the 7,500ft Remarkables mountain range,

Finding pieces that fit Australian regional aviation from other regional markets Australia’s regional airlines and the country they serve are unique. Geography, population density (or lack of) and resource exploitation have developed a finely balanced structure of supply and demand across the country, and the airlines that have grown to meet that demand – and

Australia contemplates additional C-17s and KC-30s Airlift has a strategic and diplomatic effect all of its own – witness the RAAF’s ability to rapidly deploy four Boeing C-17s to Japan to support humanitarian operations after the 2011 tsunami, or more recently, the deployment of C-17s and an Airbus KC-30 to Eindhoven in the Netherlands to

How the British Airways-Virgin Atlantic business class battle continues to change the world If Qantas invented business class in 1978, British Airways wasn’t far behind its transatlantic competitors Pan American and Trans World Airlines in offering a service between first class and economy. BA’s nemesis Virgin Atlantic, meanwhile, started the worldwide trend (continued by Virgin