Marc Joel Atrero

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

Australian airlines are set to face more challenges under the federal government’s proposed emissions trading scheme as set out in its recent green paper. That was the opinion of the CEOs of Qantas and Virgin Blue, but other aviation interest groups are holding their fire until more details on how the ETS may affect inputs

Pat Shanahan is no stranger to complexity. The man tasked with shepherding the 787 through its well documented production woes to first flight, certification and customer deliveries came to the job after leading Boeing’s Missile Defense Systems unit, which works in the highly complex, technologically advanced fields of missile defence and directed energy technologies. This

Australia’s two biggest carriers, Qantas and Virgin Blue, have cut their capacity growth projections for the current year as the price of jet fuel continues to bite. While both carriers had previously announced capacity cuts in June, both announced further cuts in July, including the first mention of redundancies from an industry which has, until

Farnborough News – Commercial Strong Showing Fo Airbus at Farnborough Airbus Had a Successful Farnborough Airshow in Announcing Orders for 247 Aircraft, but Warned That It Was Facing Slower Sales in the Second Half of the Year. “air Transport Will Continue to Grow, There Also Will Be a Need for the Replacement of Older Aircraft,”