Marc Joel Atrero

Is the longest running controversy in Australian aviation, the epic “on again, off again” saga of a second Sydney airport nearing an end? All the signs suggest the new federal government will jump start the Badgerys Creek project in its first term. But the real question is: How will the country’s primary airport hub at

Qantas At The Crossroads | The Airline Passenger Experience I get it. Look at it from Qantas’s point of view. On its home turf any 100 per cent foreign owned airline can set up shop in Australia’s domestic market – unlike (with the exception of New Zealand) almost any other advanced economy in the world.

Australia’s Chinook operators discuss the final RWG deployment in their own words After 11 rotations since February 2006, Rotary Wing Group – Eight (RWG‑8), the Australian Army Aviation detachment in Afghanistan, held a small ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in mid-September to mark the completion of its five-month mission. It was to be the last time

Qantas at the crossroads It may well come to pass that the travails of Qantas will be a watershed for Australian work practices. The oft-quoted saying that Australians are not prepared to pay for the salaries and conditions they enjoy is becoming truer every day. Aviation is the most global of all industries and, like

Is the playing field to blame? Qantas has had its share of rough months in the past few years, but none were quite so gloomy as December, when the airline revealed half-yearly losses of up to $300 million, absorbed a downgrade of its cherished credit rating and announced 1,000 more job cuts. The Flying Kangaroo

RAN’s first Romeos report for duty The Royal Australian Navy has stepped into a new era of naval combat helicopter operations with the delivery of its first two MH-60R ‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters. Barely two years after 24 Romeos were chosen under AIR 9000 Phase 8 to replace the S-70B Seahawk and the cancelled SH-2G Seasprite