Sabre Travel Network - a travel technology provider - and flydubai, have signed a multi-year global distribution agreement, providing the carrier access to more than 350,000 Sabre travel agency users around the world.

Al Ain-based composites aerostructures manufacturer Strata has said its first consignment of parts has been shipped to Airbus for its long-range A330/A340 aircraft.

ARINC has announced that its vMUSETM common-use passenger processing technology has become the first CUPPS Platform to successfully pass compliance testing under the latest CUPPS version, V1.03.

Saudi Arabian Airlines has recognised the importance of technology investments to maintain and grow its business in line with the travel momentum in the region and has announced the successful implementation of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business solutions software to ensure best practice across the organisation.

Lufthansa has announced the launch of an app for travel fans in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

Airlines carrying 57% of the world's passenger traffic have reported a real increase in IT and Telecommunications (IT&T) expenditure and are ready to spend big on passenger mobile services and other transformative technology, according to results published today in the 13th annual SITA/Airline Business Airline IT Trends Survey.

Air transport industry IT specialist integrated communications service provider for businesses, have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure for the aviation industry. .

Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has signed two contracts with Selex Galileo to include delivery of SELEX Galileo's PicoSAR and cutting edge ESCAN radar technologies for joint research, development and demonstration purposes, and a series of training and industrial participation modules centred around SELEX Galileo's world renowned radar expertise.