Marc Joel Atrero

Rex responds to pilot shortage by growing its own Regional airlines have always been a prime hunting ground for the major airlines when the need for pilots arises – so much so that at one stage in 2007, Regional Express lost 50 per cent of its pilots to the majors. The revolving door of qualifying

Aviation’s struggle to keep up with WA’s FIFO boom Western Australia’s resources sector workforce is increasing rapidly, with a consequent boom in fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) operations which has resulted in significant infrastructure and operational challenges for the aviation industry. The size of the resources workforce in WA and the use of FIFO arrangements are sharply increasing.

The Qantas Pathfinders Charity Flight The human side of aviation can sometimes be lost in the maze of marketshare and bottom lines. Yet there are those who toil tirelessly in the field such as the Flying Doctor, search and rescue crews and everyday folk in times of natural disasters. And there is one organisation that

The Qantas brand after the grounding When the DC-10 suffered a series of tragic crashes in the late 1970s then McDonnell Douglas President Sandy McDonnell quipped that every time an ash tray was full on a DC-10 it would be front page of the local paper. And so it was with every minor glitch making

The Boeing 747-8F from the flightdeck More than four decades after the original Boeing 747 entered service with the once great Pan-American Airlines, its design is still plying the air routes across the globe. At a time when some were questioning whether the famous ‘Jumbo Jet’ had finally run its course, Boeing merged the tried

Production pressures for the F-35 “There’s a lot happening all at once, there’s testing going on, the training is standing up, the first operational base is standing up – there’s a lot going on. ” So remarked Lockheed Martin’s Tom Burbage, executive vice president and general manager of the F-35 program during a brief with