Marc Joel Atrero

Aussie Air Takes On Qantas Bryan Grey’s proposed new entrant airline, Aussie Air, is moving to confront Qantas head-on in the courts over the ever-controversial issue of terminal access. Grey claims that Qantas has continually fobbed off his attempts to negotiate a fair and sensible lease for two gates at Qantas’ domestic terminals at Sydney,

People The FAC has appointed Jack Moffatt as Acting CEO pending a permanent appointment, in the wake of Bill Swinger’s resignation. John Schaap, present CEO of American Express in Australia and former CEO of Air Pacific and Australian Airlines, has become the chairman of the Australian Tourism Council. John Pike has been appointed Deputy Director

Ga Deliveries Growing US general aviation aircraft deliveries continue to gradually improve, with 445 aircraft worth $US1.3bn shipped in the first six months of 1995 compared with 406 worth $US973m in the same period of 1994. Turboprops were the biggest mover with 107 delivered in the January-June period, a 27% increase on 1994’s figure of

Adf Nomads To Go The Minister for Defence, Senator Robert Ray, has ended speculation on the future of the GAF Nomad STOL utility aircraft in Australian military service by accepting a report which says the entire fleet should remain grounded. Senator Ray has accepted the recommendation of a joint Army and RAAF review into the

Indonesian Industry Shakeup? The Indonesian aerospace industry could be facing some radical pruning if current Research and Technology Minister, Jusef Habibie, retires next year as planned. A close friend of Indonesian President Suharto, Dr Habibie is also head of the state owned IPTN aircraft manufacturing company, spearhead of the minister’s ambitious plans to establish Indonesia

Commercial Vlct Plans Frozen Studies between Boeing and Airbus partners DASA, BAe, Aerospatiale and CASA into a very large commercial transport (VLCT) have been frozen for the moment due to insufficient market potential. These studies are entirely separate from Airbus’ own investigations into a slightly smaller very large airliner under the A3XX designation which was