Marc Joel Atrero

Defence Minister Senator John Faulkner announced on September 7 that the RAAF is leasing IAI/Malat Heron UAV operating hours to provide “high resolution” Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for Australian and allied forces in Afghanistan. The Heron Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) capability, believed to involve two aircraft, came about through Project Nankeen which

Radical transformation could be on the way for Australia’s busiest air route after Qantas CEO Alan Joyce announced on August 19 that Jetstar will start flying between Sydney and Melbourne from October 25. The new flights, which will operate five times daily with 177 seat A320s, appear to be aimed at reducing the penetration of

The aircraft, which will eventually be delivered to Cargolux, is due to fly by the end of the year and will be refurbished at the end of the flight test campaign. (Boeing) Commercial Comac Unveils C919 Mockup the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) Used the Asian Aerospace Exhibition in Hong Kong to Unveil a

Amid the myriad of detail and interesting items to come out of Qantas’s annual profit results (announced on August 19) was one standout fact – for the first time, low cost subsidiary Jetstar made a larger profit than Qantas’s mainline operations did. In fact, in a year when IATA predicts world airlines will lose US$9

Strategic Airlines takes off It is undoubtedly a bold move, launching a new airline during an economic downturn, especially when the failures of MacAir, SkyAirWorld and OzJet are fresh in the memory, but Strategic Airlines is undeterred as it seeks to carve out a niche in the charter, wetleasing and secondary level RPT markets. The

When airline tycoon Sir Richard Branson voted to sink another $80 million into Virgin Blue in late July as part of a deeply discounted fully underwritten $231 million capital raising to bolster the airline’s balance sheet it signalled hopefully the end to speculation about the future direction of the airline. News of the raising, ending