Marc Joel Atrero

Are kids falling out of love with careers in aviation? The Australian Aviation website ran a special article recently that took a look the present-day appeal – or lack of it – of aviation in the minds of today’s schoolchildren. And the answer seems to be that the thrill of flying has almost disappeared from

Boeing boss bullish on program execution Upbeat – that’s the assessment of the company’s future programs from Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer Jim McNerney, who says the upside of hard lessons of the past few years are about to be reaped. At a round table of six aviation editors at this year’s Farnborough

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A skills shortage “Nine cadets! They’ve got to be joking!” I was chatting with a senior industry figure recently about the issue of the aviation skills crisis and the industry’s inability to attract young people. The subject of our chat was Virgin Australia’s recently announced cadet pilot scheme and as detailed in our report elsewhere

The renaissance of the Airbus A330While orders for the new-generation composite widebody airliners have been catching the headlines in recent years, Airbus has been pleasantly surprised by the strong sales for its A330 series. Originally launched in 1987 alongside its four-engined sibling, the A340, the A330 has now outlived production of the former and in

The future of airline travel It will come as a surprise to no-one in the airline industry that air travel is and will remain the world’s real World Wide Web. Even Bill Gates says so. Released just before July’s Farnborough Airshow, a new Airbus survey found that “Facebook won’t replace face to face.” And this