Marc Joel Atrero

Australia’s shopping malls with gates attached The airline passenger experience doesn’t just begin at the aircraft door. For many domestic flights, passengers spend more time on the ground than in the air. Yet despite the importance of airports to the Australian economy, it’s hard to argue that Australian passengers have a decent airport experience. Australia’s

Memories of KAL 007 rekindled as China invokes new airspace controls China’s surprise announcement in late November it has set up an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) means all commercial flights must inform Beijing of their routing in advance, and sparks tragic memories. It is almost exactly 20 years since a Soviet

Can a new minister clean up the “unsustainable mess” of defence acquisitions? In the story of Hercules, the hero of Greek mythology was made to undertake 12 labours to make up for past crimes. The fifth task was to clean the Augean stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and

Former Qantas colleagues going head to head It may well be argued by those cynical enough to see the irony that the ongoing airline battle for control of Australian skies is not between Virgin and Qantas but between John Borghetti and Alan Joyce. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a

Weight on wheels First F-35A for the RAAF is standing on its on wheels for the first time The first F-35A for the RAAF is standing on its on wheels for the first time, a significant milestone for the jet as it moves down the production line of Lockheed Martin’s mile-long assembly plant in Fort

Crisis presents opportunity 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. And when those foreign backed airlines