Marc Joel Atrero

Boeing’s 787 takes to the skies Boeing’s oft-delayed 787 Dreamliner took off on its first flight at approximately 10:27am local time on December 15 (approximately 5:27am December 16 AEDST) from Paine Field, Everett. Over 10,000 Boeing employ-ees and members of the public watched the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powered ZA001, accom-panied by two Boeing owned T-33

If it happened in commercial aviation for much of the last century it happened at United Airlines. The airline’s legendary chairman William “Pat” Patterson, while slight in stature, was a giant of a man and loved by all who knew him. And he knew everyone in the airline industry. This content is available exclusively to

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The current CTAF procedures as we know them were introduced in November 2005. Since that time there have been a number of changes and now yet more are in the wind. Earlier in 2009 CASA put out a proposed regulation change, NPRM 0908S, for comment by October 23. The proposal covered several items relating to

Three weeks after Qantas’s 33 per cent cuts to Barcaldine and Blackall (temporarily approved by Queensland government), they were rescinded after community backlash. Both airports have been recently upgraded to Dash 8-300 capacity, and are to be further upgraded to Q400 level by immediate grants, becoming the smallest towns to handle the world’s biggest regional

A fundamental building block of regulatory reform continues to plague CASA efforts to improve regulations – and without resolution of the classification of operations policy regulatory reform is doomed. One would have thought that all those years ago when we commenced regulatory reform that the basic decision about how operations would be classified would have