Marc Joel Atrero

Commercial News Boeing Increases Production/Employment: With strong orders for Boeing products recently, the manufacturer has announced it will increase the production rate of the 777 from five to seven per month from July 1997. Boeing will also employ a further 5000 workers, bringing its total employment intake to 13,200 by the end of the year

Kiwi Collapses: On Monday September 9, Kiwi International Airlines announced that it had entered voluntary liquidation and had ceased all flying. The decision came after an appalling couple of months for the airline with numerous problems plaguing services culminating with the grounding of its leased A320 in Brisbane the week before. Chief Executive and founder

Whatever Happened to the Australian Aircraft Industry? As this magazine prepares to enter its third decade of publication it is thought provoking for your editor to look back upon some of the more incredible things he has witnessed in our wonderful industry. Perhaps the best, and certainly the most confusing, has been following the travails

Engines Running About 18 months ago I was flying from Bangkok to Sydney. It was one of these early departures which gets you up at 4:30am to get your Qantas flight in time. At the airport I had still some time to kill and was strolling around the departure hall to see if I could

Register Review Among the 37 aircraft listed in this issue’s New Allocations section are two locally built Kavanagh balloons, AKX and TKA. This brings the total number of hot air balloons flying in Australia to over 200, indicating the amount of interest in ballooning in this country. On the heavier side, seven turbine twins have

Monitored by This Writer at Sydney One Recent Midmorning, as Asiana Airline’s Boeing 767-300ER Was Onshort Finals for Runway 34 Left, Following a Flight Fromcairns and Seoul in South Korea The Crewmember Using the Radio Sounded Like He Was Thecaptain, With the First Officer Likely to be the Pilot Actuallyflying the Aircraft. The Captain Requested