Marc Joel Atrero

MH370, ET702 show the pendulum swing towards independent news sources on social media The news gets its news from social media, in aviation as in many other fields. But in a year with two very different major aviation incidents in its first three months – Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 and Malaysia Airlines flight 370 –

As the future of manufacturing in Australia continues to make headlines and with the first aircraft for the RAAF due to roll out of the factory within months, we survey some of the Australian companies forming links in the F-35 global supply chain A report released at the start of the year cast doubt on

Amid the savage cost-cutting and planned job losses at Qantas the much-touted operations of its portfolio of budget offshoots in Asia are proving to be a persistent problem and a disappointment to their investors. None of them are getting anything back for their money and there are signs things could deteriorate further. When Jetstar group

Jayne Hrdlick is leading the Jetstar Group into its second decade at a time of both challenge and opportunity During a 50-minute interview, one word stands out more than any other – “opportunity”. Jetstar may have posted its first loss since its start-up phase, but CEO Jayne Hrdlicka is upbeat about the prospects for the

Triton’s futuristic vision To see a Triton takeoff is to see a sci-fi vision of the future in the here and now. Flight testing of the unmanned Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton, a considerably re-worked development of the RQ-4B Global Hawk has, to date, progressed smoothly ahead of its service entry with the US Navy under

Early lessons learnt from MH370 As the largest international search in history closes on locating Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 the lessons from the most extraordinary disappearance in commercial aviation history are being learnt – but some sadly not for the first time. There is no doubt that the search for MH370 would have been shortened