Marc Joel Atrero

The Aviation Safety Regulatory Review It is my genuine hope that the Australian aviation community will be able to look back on June 2014 when the Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) was reported to the Parliament and see it as a milestone that marked the beginning of a turnaround for the industry. The review was

Vindicating critics, review paints CASA as out of step, out of touch; recommends broad changes For years, industry critics of Australia’s air safety regulator have pointed to hard-line statements by CASA director John McCormick during the opening months of his tenure in 2009. As McCormick vowed to make CASA an enforcementoriented regulator with “a capital

It’s a jungle out there As airlines from around the world gathered in Doha at the annual International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference in June, the issue of passengers behaving badly reared its ugly head. It is not a new phenomenon, but it does seem to be growing at an alarming rate. Is it a

Lack of airline profitability could hinder airport infrastructure projects A lack of profitability at Qantas and Virgin Australia is threatening to derail or slow key infrastructure projects at Australia’s airports in the coming years. The parlous state of the airlines’ bottom line, with combined first half losses of $327 million and their inability to pass

Asia’s airlines are facing a pilot shortage If there’s some cold comfort for the 100 or so Qantas pilots the troubled carrier is trying to convince to take redundancy it lies in the irony that while the Flying Kangaroo appears to have a surplus of cockpit crew, everyone else in the world is scrambling around

The burgers are better at 38,000ft If you had to pick the next big thing in international first class dining, would it be a burger? It will be on board British Airways. This June, BA’s new Flying Burger started winging its way through the air… or at least onto a plate, with a British Airways