Marc Joel Atrero

Victoria’s regional airline secret Sharp Airlines, founded in 1990 in the late Sir Reginald Ansett’s launching pad of Hamilton in western Victoria, has surprised its owners with the rapid expansion of its business in the past two years. The prospects keep opening up for the regional airline, which had aimed to consolidate its operations in

Breaking into a Dash 8 stronghold Regional turboprop manufacturer ATR finally broke into the Australian market last year after placing a new ATR 42-500 with Queensland based regional MacAir and two used ATR 42-300Fs with freight and charter operator Jetcraft Aviation, which is now owned by Toll Air Express. But ATR is no stranger to

RAAF airlift upsizes to the C-17 era The C-17 has certainly made a big impact in Australia since the first was delivered to the RAAF in December 2006. The Boeing airlifter has impressed not only for its sheer size and capability, but also for its very rapid and smooth introduction to service as it quickly

Development and growth at QantasLink QantasLink’s regional operations continue to play an important part of the Qantas Group’s success. Since it merged the Airlink, Sunstate, Eastern and Southern Australian Airlines brands in 2001, QantasLink has consolidated its fleet and operations, as well as some routes. Nevertheless, QantasLink continues to operate more flights across a wider

Growing pains at RAAF Williamtown and Newcastle Airport RAAF Williamtown has long been the Air Force’s key fighter base, but with massive commercial growth at the adjacent Newcastle Airport commercial terminal in recent years it seemed inevitable at some point that tension would arise in balancing the needs of a critical defence base with those

Chairman, president & CEO Cessna As the world’s largest manufacturer of general aviation and business aircraft, Cessna needs no introduction. Despite some signs of economic weakness in its domestic US market Cessna has gone from strength to strength of late, building aircraft at near record rates, boasting a very healthy order backlog and featuring an