Marc Joel Atrero

Shorts for Fokker?: With Northern Ireland’s Short Brothers up for grabs, the company handling the sale on behalf of the UK Government has announced that the original list of 30 bidders will be reduced to six. One interested party is Fokker, which is keeping its options open about whether to buy Shorts alone or with

Will Deregulation Get Off the Ground? It is now barely eighteen months till Australia’s interstate air services are totally deregulated. Yet as the weeks pass into months, it is rapidly becoming clearer that it will be a miracle if anything approaching true deregulation will be in place in time to better serve the Australian travelling public.

Register Review Although a few new aircraft have arrived in Australia in recent months, trans-Tasman deliveries have been predominantly secondhand imports with the average of 30 aircraft per month being maintained through September. and October. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this

Ansett Steals a March Competition is hotting up on the tourist circuit between rivals Ansett New Zealand and Mount Cook Airlines (majority shareholder Air New Zealand). For some time Mount Cook has been backing local plans to build an international airport at the South Island tourist hub of Queenstown to allow jets to fly in.

“See and Be Seen”: A View From the Courtroom Early this year, the writer, a private pilot, was returning to Bankstown from a business trip to Parkes in central New South Wales. The planned track was via Bathurst and Katoomba, Sartime; the weather was CAVOK. A normal departure report had been given to Sydney FS

Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport Leading Billion Dollar Airport Building Boom Driven by record numbers of air travellers, development of Sydney’s airports is set to boom. Projects approved or proposed for Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport will be worth over $1 billion by the end of the century and an equal amount is likely to be invested in new