A group of high school students calling themselves Dubai Amateur Rocketry have developed a new type of rocket fuel that they say is much easier and cheaper to manufacture.

The Emirates Group Security Centre of Aviation and Security Studies (CASS) and Edith Cowan University of Western Australia have conferred 117 diplomas at its 11th graduation ceremony.

Middle Eastern business aircraft operators flying to the USA and making their pre-clearance technical and immigration stop at Ireland's Shannon Airport will have a new FBO to take their break.

Laila Ali Hareb Al Muhairi, the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority's assistant director general, has been named as a fiinalist in the female innovator category in the 10th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and will ultimately be a gold, silver, or bronze Stevie award winner in the programme.

EgyptAir Training Center has expanded its proliferation in the African market by training Eritrean airlines cabin crew.

Bahrain-based operator Chisholm Enterprises has appointed Neil Henderson as business development manager.

TAV Airports CEO & president, Dr. Sani Sener has been unanimously selected by the board of ACI Europe to represent the European region at the Governing Board of ACI World starting January 1, 2014.

The Boeing Company has highlighted the Middle East's current and future growth potential for both the commercial aviation and defence sectors.