Marc Joel Atrero

Joyce outlines Qantas job cuts and fleet plans Bert Foster says: The wages for a lot of staff are not “insanely high” except for some of the executives who rake in more than many airline CEOs in the world and in some cases more than the totals of some of the Asian counterparts combined. Pilots

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10 years ago Defence Minister Robert Hill on May 11 announced the government has decided to exercise the options held for two additional Boeing Wedgetail aircraft for the RAAF at a cost of A$326 million, taking the fleet to six. The RAAF’s first Wedgetail, 737‑7ES N378BC/A30-001, had its maiden flight from Boeing Field, Seattle on

Quite a few interesting aircraft are shown in the New Allocations this issue. A new Challenger, BLM, and Global Express, IQR, for Execujet the former having seen service in the US and Argentina, and the latter previously operated in South Africa, the US and Qatar. A Beaver, DHQ, from Canada originally built for the US

AAAA, Air Tractor join forces to recognise innovation AAAA has long held that innovation and adaptation are the keys to both survival and prosperity in the aerial application sector and for that matter, aviation as a whole. Without a perpetual push forward for both continuous improvement and the occasional ‘great leap forward’, the aviation industry

RAAA Convention to reconvene in the Hunter Valley With Qantas and Virgin off the front pages for a while it might just be possible for the rest of the industry to get some air time. Possibly more than any other industry, commercial aviation focuses on safety and operational predictability to a fault. It is a