Mutual benefit is too easily sacrificed A good argument can be mounted that many airports and the communities they serve would benefit from a complete change in the way they interact with the airlines serving their area. Let’s look at regional airports first and apply transport analogies from the 19th and 20th centuries. For many

Government is key to unlocking opportunity Australia has been a partner in the JSF Program since 2002. A significant objective in joining the program was to open up opportunities for local companies in the world’s largest defence program. It’s timely to ask: How much more could have been achieved – and perhaps could still be

Fleet Air Arm prepares for new capabilities HMAS Albatross near Nowra, NSW, has for more than 65 years been home to the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation group, the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Formed in 1947 around a nucleus of two British war-surplus aircraft carriers, the FAA has over its lifetime operated a variety of fixed

Extending the capability of Embraer’s popular E-Jets Improving aircraft designs by stretching or upgraded the engines or both can be spectacularly successful or a commercial disaster. Aviation history is littered with both and the most successful are without doubt the Boeing 737 and the DC-8 families. Now Embraer, four years after Bombardier announced the CSeries,