Marc Joel Atrero

On the 25th February Peter ‘Pip’ Borrman died as a result of a mechanical failure while practicing in his Pitts Samson for the Australian International Airshow. It would be fair to say that in life many of us have role models or heroes who we admire, look up too or even aspire to emulate their

The low cost battle for dominance of the Australian and Asian markets between Tiger Airways and Jetstar intensified with two key moves announced in early April. Firstly, Qantas announced on April 2 that it was taking greater control of Singapore based Jetstar Asia in partnership with Singaporean company Westbrook Investments, with the two companies taking

Despite Northrop Grumman doubling its efforts in recent months to state its case for the RQ-4N Global Hawk as a contender to partially replace the RAAF’s AP-3C Orions with a long endurance UAV from late next decade under Project Air 7000 Phase 1B, the Commonwealth has decided to not participate in the US Navy’s Broad

New Qantas CEO Alan Joyce on leading in tough times Alan Joyce is wearing ties again, now he is running Qantas. “I had to dust them off,” joked Joyce of his need to wear ties again since his promotion from CEO of Jetstar to CEO of Qantas. “Lucky I didn’t give them to St Vincents

The engine will undergo 40 test flights over the northern summer ahead of certification later this year. (GE) Commercial Lufthansa Firms Cseries Order Lufthansa Has Signed a Contract for 30 and Options for 30 Bombardier Cseries Airliners, the First Firm Order for the New Narrow-body Commercial Jet. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

At just 42 years of age, new Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has been the airline’s rising star – two decades in the making. Despite his comparative youth, Joyce is a 20 year airline industry veteran, and while he rose to prominence launching and running Jetstar, before that he worked within Qantas itself, Ansett in the