Geoffrey Thomas is the Senior Editor of the airline management journal Air Transport World. Geoffrey was previously SE-Asian Contributing Editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology. In all, he has won 16 international and Australasian awards.

Geoffrey is a regular commentator on Australian TV and radio, including being the aviation commentator on Channel 7's top rating Sunrise program, Australia's most watched national morning show. He is also heard on the BBC. He is published in The Australian - Australia's most prestigious daily newspaper - and Australian Aviation and was previously published in The West Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Geoffrey has co-written seven books with Christine and has delivered guest lectures at the University of Southern California and Curtin University in Western Australia.

Tom Ballantyne, Chief Correspondent of the Hong Kong-published Orient Aviation magazine, has 40 years experience in international journalism. During the early 1970s, Tom was a war correspondent for South Africa's Argus newspaper group, covering conflicts in the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), as well as the Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique. In 1975 he began an 18-year stint with one of Australia's premier newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald. After spending three years as the Herald's Chief of Staff, Tom was appointed Travel and Aviation Editor in 1989. During this period he authored Breakfast in Bali, Supper at the Savoy, a humorous travel tale, as well as co-authoring a second book, A Year of Good Weekends. Building a growing reputation as a specialist writer on the international aviation and airline industry, he left the Herald in 1994, working as Asia Correspondent for the London-based Airline Business magazine before being appointed Chief Correspondent of Orient Aviation. As well as writing, he is a regular commentator on aviation issues on television and radio in Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. Tom is also a speaker at numerous aviation conferences and seminars and is a media consultant to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Air Transport Safety Information Project, a global program designed to help non-aviation journalists better understand the sensitive issues surrounding airline safety. Based in Sydney, Australia, he won the prestigious GE Aircraft Engines Award for the Best Air Transport Submission at the Royal Aerospace Society's Journalist of the Year Awards in London in 1998. In 2000 he was a double winner in the Australian National Aviation Press Club annual awards, named the country's Aviation Writer of the Year as well as author of the Best Aviation Feature Story of the Year. He won the latter award again in 2004.

Christine Forbes Smith (B.A. (Social Sciences) and B. App. Sci.) is regularly published in WA Business News and was previously published in The West Australian travel pages focusing on consumer issues as well as destinations. Christine writes for WA Business News and Airways magazine and has authored four books on aviation and travel. Christine lives in Perth, Australia with her three sons, Alex, Simon and Mitchell.