Marc Joel Atrero

PAN AM 1927-91 Death Notice: Pan American World Airways 1927-91, aged 64 years. Remembered as innovative and pioneering in its youth and early middle age but inflexible and unable to adapt to change in later years. Died penniless after a long debilitating illness. Always remembered . . . There have been many casualties in the

Warbirds – The Professional Restorers Recently, Australian Aviation paid a flying visit to Bankstown to interview two of the professional restorers of old civil and ex miltary aircraft who have established their workshops at this busy airfield. We were particularly interested in how the market was fairing in the current economic recession. More importantly perhaps

Yakovlev 18T In early November last year I was asked by John Sherrington, on behalf of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, “Would I be available to guide the visiting Russian aviation goodwill expedition around Australia during December?” After a lot of arm-twisting and persuasion (I think it took as long as half a second

Amats Implementation – First Impressions The first stage of AMATS has been implemented and contrary to some prior alarmist predictions, the sky has not fallen in. It is early days yet, however, it was a little sad to recently see a Flight Service Officer fighting a rear guard battle by claiming in a letter to

Compass Failure Highlights Need for New Entrants to Formulate a Viable Business Plan Just 385 days after it was born, Compass Airlines died. A victim of a business plan that was from the start driven largely by how big the airline wanted to be, rather than by how profitable. In the end, after losing money

Broker Urges Quick Qantas Sale: Melbourne broker ANZ McCaughan is urging the float of much of Qantas as early as possible, even December this year. The company says that because of the poor state of the Australian economy and the world aviation industry (the airlines particularly), now is the best time to attract investors because