Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas Group Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is predicting brighter skies ahead for the airline group after handing down a $2. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on

The combined net losses of Australia’s two big airlines – some $3.15 billion – grabbed the headlines after Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia announced their latest annual results, painting a grim picture of the local industry. Are things as bad as they look? Behind the stark financial figures there may be reason for a degree

Have Australia’s airlines turned the corner? Three times during his annual results press conference, CEO Alan Joyce used the term “confronting” to describe the Qantas Group’s $2. 8 billion net loss for the 2013-14 financial year. “It has absolutely been the most challenging environment that we’ve faced, and the results as a result have been

Indonesia’s state-owned domestic airline limps on If there is such a thing as a God of Lost Causes even he, or she, would be hard pressed to save ailing state-owned Indonesian domestic carrier Merpati Nusantara. Indeed, why Merpati is still flying is one of those small mysteries of the aviation world. The carrier has been

How the RAAF could best aid in the fight against ISIL As we go to press, it appears increasingly likely that Australia will commit forces to a US-led coalition to respond to the spread of the fundamentalist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has been busy visiting

The search for MH370 continues Complex computer analysis of the ocean floor, refinement of Inmarsat satellite communications and unanswered phone calls have defined the highest priority area for the new search for MH370, which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew over six months ago. As this is read the search will be underway and the