Marc Joel Atrero

The incredible legacy of the Boeing 747 One by one, airlines around the world are farewelling the Boeing 747 from their fleets. A giant in its physical dimensions, the size of its impact upon air travel can hardly be measured. It didn’t merely take aviation to the next step in 1969 when it first took

A rusty pilot flies the Diamond DA62 As a precursor to this air test, I want to reinforce to our readers that I am a very rusty pilot. Very. Whilst aviation was my first career, it’s been a good 11 years since I’ve been at the controls of an aircraft and there’s quite a big

Perth Airport on the front foot In the late 1950s the former aviation director for the US State of Ohio, the late Norm Crabtree, uttered the famous and oft-quoted words that an “airport runway is the most important main street in any town”. For WA’s economy, which is the economic engine of Australia, even in

Unmanned systems finally taking off in ADF service When Australian troops first deployed to Afghanistan in late 2002, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had no unmanned aircraft and not much experience beyond some trials, which did show the vast potential for this technology. Sixteen years on, the ADF is becoming a UAS (unmanned aerial systems)

Traveller beware the increasingly fragmented airline experience What does an economy class ticket buy you these days? How about business class, or premium economy? Those are increasingly hard questions to answer. More than ever before, airlines are blurring the lines between the classes of services as they seek to split their markets into segments. This

A final frontier Nonstop flights between Vietnam and the US are on the horizon There aren’t many country pairs around the globe today that don’t have direct non-stop flights connecting them. Flying between Australia and the UK is one of them but that’s about to come to an end this month (March) when Qantas Airways