Marc Joel Atrero

While the industry wrestles with lingering economic uncertainty, Boeing forges ahead with new designs There’s nothing like a good dose of GDP for breakfast. For the vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Randy Tinseth, GDP is the fibre of his daily diet. For some, dry economics first thing in the morning would likely

The state of the passenger experience Airline passenger experience in 2014 starts even before a flyer lays down the cold, hard cash (or, usually, credit card). The first decision is: which airline? And, therefore, which channel will you use to buy your ticket? If 2013 was the year of the meta-search site, 2014 will only

RAAF farewells the C-130H It was, many would argue, the unkindest budget cut of all: the retirement of the beloved H model Hercules driven not by its obsolescence but by the need for Defence to do its part in helping the federal government return to surplus. Air Lift Group was determined to give the C-130H

The rise and rise of Jetstar While it seems everyone has something to say about low-cost airlines, no-one can deny their success. Today budget airlines account for around 26 per cent of the global airline market. Their influence is being felt in regions that have been both quick to embrace low-cost travel and now others

It’s tempting to treat the newly-rechristened Bullet Train for Australia Party as something of an oddball joke since, well, it’s called the Bullet Train for Australia Party. Where Labor and the Liberals stand on the central ideologies of Western political philosophy, the Bullet Train Party evokes a particularly speedy form of public transport. During the

The world’s first operational F-35 unit squadron has been stood up The US Marine Corps Fighter Squadron VMFA-121 converted from F/A-18A/B Hornets to the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant, with the unit’s first three F-35Bs delivered to its home base of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma in Arizona to coincide with