Ben Sandilands
Editor of Plane Talking@PlaneTalking
Ben Sandilands has reported and analysed the mechanical mobility of humanity since late 1960 - the end of the age of great scheduled ocean liners and coastal steamers and the start of the jet age. He’s worked in newspapers, radio and TV in a wide range of roles as a journalist at home and abroad for 56 years, the last 18 freelance.
MH370's best chance of discovery is going to be intensively examined by renewed search
Making the Canadian CSeries jet a much bigger threat to its 737 family was probably not what Boeing intended when it tried to cripple it being sold cheaply to US carriers
Airbus makes it clear that the Middle East is a huge growth zone not just a place to refuel, or interrupt a flight to Europe
Our airlines need to use some very plain words about cytotoxic drug spills in passenger cabins
More heavy hitting evidence that investment funds, as well as true environmental commitments, are getting behind the eradication of fossil carbon releasing fuels
It's about 14 years since reporters have sought answers about a possible merger between Emirates and Etihad and we have almost enough words about this yesterday as heard in all of them in total
The Emirates Y class A380 cabin is about to become a rarer pleasure between Australia and New Zealand
Airbus warns its people of impending fallout over corruption claims and launch customer for A330NEO says it might take A350s instead
If as this study suggests, high smooth levels of the atmosphere are becoming more turbulence prone, air travel will have a new barrier to tame
Let's not beat around the bush, Boeing is investing in getting rid of pilots to solve a growing shortage of them