Marc Joel Atrero

On Short Finals To Ioc Boeing’s P‑8A Poseidon is set to achieve its initial operational capability (IOC) with the US Navy in December as Australia looks to increase the number of P‑8s it will acquire to replace its ageing AP‑3C Orions under Project AIR 7000 Phase 2B. The P‑8A successfully completed its initial operational test

The remaking of EADS under Tom Enders The boss of Europe’s biggest aerospace company walks purposefully into the business lounge of the Canberra hotel. Dr Tom Enders is taller than you think, trim and with his thinning hair neatly-trimmed short, it is not hard to envisage that one of Europe’s most significant business figures was

Detractors may yet be proved wrong There are no arguments that budget flying is now part and parcel of Asia’s airline arena. Some 50 low-cost carriers (LCCs), a few of them now larger in terms of fleet and network than their veteran full-service counterparts, says it all. But the jury, according to many analysts, remains

Not yet, but if it comes are we ready? For as long as I can remember, the pilot shortage has been coming. And yet, it is still to arrive. Decade after decade the forecasts are made and the flying schools seize upon the headlines to promote their wares. In the airlines, pilots become starry-eyed about

It’s not really goodbye Much is being made of the impending closure of the longest nonstop scheduled flights in the world – Singapore Airlines’ services from its hub at Changi Airport to Newark and Los Angeles. Served for nearly a decade by a five-strong fleet of Airbus A340‑500s making the 17-19 hour flights, the realities

Has Qantas’s love affair with the 787 just begun? Over 60 years ago Eastern Airline’s president Eddie Rickenbacker commented to Donald Douglas Snr when buying a fleet of Douglas DC‑8s that he wasn’t buying an airplane he was buying integrity. Rickenbacker had asked Douglas if he could reduce the noise on the jet engines. Douglas