Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas’s 747 reconfiguration program Parked Inside a Cavernous Hangar at Qantas’s Avalon Heavy Maintenance Facility Sits Boeing 747-438er Vh-oeh, Midway Through Its Internal Refit. It’s a Tight Fit – the Aircraft’s Winglets Clear the Hangar Walls by Centimetres – and All Around the Boeing Are Palletised Rows of New Seats, Skybeds and in-flight Entertainment Equipment

The coming inflight entertainment revolution It’s increasingly likely the battle for bums on seats on Australian airlines will be won not by what the airlines offer on the back of those seats but by what enabling technologies they provide for either supplied iPads or passengers’ own devices. Driven by the late delivery of the 787,

Changes in the air for Army Aviation The Australian Army’s rotary wing fleet is in transition, from the entry into service of the all-new Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter capability, to replacing the stalwart Black Hawk battlefield helicopter with the delayed MRH 90, to bolstering the heavylift CH-47D Chinook fleet with two futher machines. The CH-47D

Flying on the 787 with ANA The Boeing 787 Dreamliner entered service with Japan’s All Nippon Airways late last year, carrying more baggage than any aircraft in recent memory. It was, in the optimistic hype of Boeing’s marketing department, a game changer. For airlines, its lightweight carbon composite construction would mean a respite from mounting

Qantas will slash 500 jobs and review maintenance operations after announcing an 83 per cent drop in half yearly profits. The airline said its pre-tax profits for the six months ending December 31 fell to $202 million, down $215 million from the previous year. It attributed the drop to higher fuel prices and the cost

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