Marc Joel Atrero

Can Qantas turn staff cynicism into pride again? When any organisation goes through substantial reform, one of the first casualties is staff morale. On the first anniversary of the infamous grounding of the Qantas fleet, we take a look at what’s driving a once loyal workforce into nearunprecedented industrial discord. When Geoff Dixon began contemplating

During Australian Aviation’s recent flying visit to Perth, my flight into the WA capital landed on time but then due to congestion at the airport my aircraft had to stand off for 20 minutes until the our nominated gate became available. “For me, that’s emblematic of what’s happening in Perth, you’ve come here, and you’ve

Where next for Qantas International after the Emirates alliance While at first glance the proposed seismic alliance with Emirates will solve in an instant Qantas’s European network problems, questions remain about its longer strategy from Dubai along with who the Asian and Trans Pacific strategies will play out. There is no doubt the Dubai solution

New delays for MRH, ARH 2012 was set to be a big year for helicopters in the Australian Defence Force. Navy’s MRH was due to achieve IOC, while Army was gaining a better understanding of the platform. The ARH Tiger would test itself at Operation Hamel, meet the requirements for Final Materiel Release and a

Growlers mix it with RAAF Rhinos An F-111 Moment August’s confirmation that Australia is to convert 12 of its 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets to EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets was an F-111 moment. That was a momentous decision, not really appreciated by the broader community, and what media attention it did attract tended to focus

Airbus’s Charles Champion on the future of flying “Technology can do anything – but it can’t do everything. ” Those were the opening words from Charles Champion, executive vice president engineering at Airbus, who delivered the 54th Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture in Sydney in September. “Our engineers are continuously encouraged to think widely