Marc Joel Atrero

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

Geoff Dixon manoeuvres for control of Qantas against his former protege Alan Joyce. It is extremely difficult to get a clear picture of what the alleged plotters that make up Aviation Partners Australia (APA) Mark 2 actually want to achieve with Qantas. The plotters own a reported two per cent of the airline and, according

Evolutionary or Revolutionary? Maintaining a technological edge over peer competitors within the South-east Asian region has been one of the fundamentals of Australian defence policy since WW2. Because Australia is an island nation, that principle has been applied especially to the Royal Australian Air Force. Simply put, control events in the vast maritime (air and

China’s airlines are slowing, not stalling China’s slowing economy and its potential impact on airlines in the Asia Pacific region has been grabbing headlines but the heads of the region’s major carriers have a message for the prophets of doom suggesting Beijing’s growth bubble has burst. It is, quite simply: Relax. Like everyone else, China’s

Varying product means a varying passenger experience 2013 is set to be a year of improved flights for passengers travelling between Perth and Sydney or Melbourne, with both Qantas and Virgin Australia scheduling all-Airbus A330 services between WA and the two east coast cities. Virgin is already all-A330 between Melbourne and Perth, Qantas is planning