Marc Joel Atrero

Boeing has bowed to the inevitable in confirming growing industry speculation that the first flight and first delivery of its advanced 787 Dreamliner will be delayed by about six months. The manufacturer announced on October 10 that the 787’s first flight has now been pushed back to March 2008, and that deliveries to launch customer

Commercial Atr Unveils -600 Upgrade the Atr Consortium Has Revealed Its New -600 Series Developments of Its Hot-selling Atr 42 and 72 Turboprop Regional Airliners. The Biggest Change Introduced on the -600 Models Will Be a New Five-screen Thales Advanced Flightdeck With Cat Iii and Rnp Capabilities. Other Features Are Uprated Pratt & Whitney Canada

Due to our production schedules you’ll most likely be reading this column with the benefit of hindsight that I don’t have. You’ll know the result of November 24’s federal election, which was still 10 days away when this column was being written. But whoever wins, to varying degrees it seems it will be ‘business as

A Red Storm Rising September was a big month for Virgin Blue. Not only did it celebrate its seventh anniversary of operations, but it took delivery of its first Embraer E-Jet, opened a new airport lounge in Canberra, and revealed a new assault on the nation’s capital and lucrative government travel accounts. Virgin Blue revealed

It came as absolutely no surprise to anyone in the industry that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rejected absolutely suggestions from former Boeing engineer Vince Weldon that the 787 was “unsafe and brittle” and that it should alter the certification and testing process for the predominantly carbon fibre twin-jet. What is a surprise is

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