Marc Joel Atrero

New lease of life at 75 Ever since a Chinese Emperor formed the world’s first standing army, the fortunes of all subsequent military organisations have waxed and waned in lime with the needs of their political masters, not to mention the depth of pocket of the taxpayers required to fund these undertakings. The fortunes of

It seems these days that wherever one looks, there’s an airfield under threat of extinction. So when did aviation become so annoying to the greater community? At what point did society move from hoisting Kingsford Smith onto their shoulders and begin cursing those confounded machines and their inconvenient tracts of land? In a land far

One more time, with feeling … With the Australian government’s early May announcement that it will launch another “detailed investigation” on building a second Sydney Airport, this time at Wilton on the city’s south-western fringe, we may as well cue the music: the soap opera of the second airport is on again. The plot lines

Budget flak hits AIR 5428 High hopes that the long-awaited project to replace Australia’s ab initio pilot training system would get the green light have been dashed, with the federal budget announcement that the six-year wait will be extended for yet another year. Understandably, industry is neither surprised nor impressed. The delay will push a

Taskforces investigate WA air traffic congestion The dramatic growth of the resources industry in Western Australia has been accompanied by unplanned pressure on the aviation sector. Air traffic management and airport infrastructure are struggling to cater for increased aircraft demand between Perth and developments in state regional areas. Two task force investigations have been commissioned

WA’s state aviation strategy Perth Airport’s annual passenger growth could quadruple over the next 17 years to 40 million — more than double that estimated by the airport owners, according to a new issues paper that throws into question infrastructure planning assumptions for both terminals and an extra parallel runway to handle demand. A Western