Marc Joel Atrero

New competition for a true duopoly With V Australia announcing its intention to start services to Johannesburg in March 2010, the cosy duopoly between Qantas and South African Airways (SAA) on the ‘Wallaby Route’ route appears to be crumbling. For the two legacy carriers, the Wallaby Route has a long history, and has become increasingly

From QantasLink to Coastwatch These are tough times in the aviation industry, but Adelaide based Cobham Aviation Services Australia, the country’s largest aviation services contractor, is successfully riding out the sector’s storm. The former National Jet group, owned by British aviation giant Cobham Plc since 2000, but only adopting its name in March this year,

DCAF AVM Geoff Brown on change in the RAAF I think there is some changes for us. If you look at us now I think maintenance wise we’ll probably go to a slightly smaller maintenance force and some of the administration tasks we’ll try and get more efficient with the way that is done how

Middle East airlines defy recession Mark Twain’s famous quote “rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated” brings a smile to Emirates’ President Tim Clark, whose office overlooks an airport that does not seem to know the meaning of the word recession. Just 12 months ago naysayers were predicting Emirates would be forced to merge with

When one thinks of Qantas, one doesn’t usually associate Australia’s flag carrier with defence and third party support work. But the airline has a division which is dedicated to just that. Qantas Defence Services, recently moved from under Qantas Engineering into the new Qantas Aviation Services (QAS) division headed by Glenn Brown who joined the

For all the difficulties experienced by the aviation industry in Australia in the past year, few companies have faced the severity of downturn encountered by Cessna. “We have seen nothing like it. The speed and severity of this economic downturn caught us all off guard.” This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login