Turkish Technic signed a C check maintenance services agreement with Airblue Limited covering one Airbus A319. MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg has completed the overhaul of 5,000 engines since its founding in 1991. Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services won a contract from Kenya Airways to convert two passenger Boeing 737-300 aircraft to freighters with Aeronautical Engineers. It will be Boeing Shanghai’s first PTF conversion.

Paramount Group - one of Africa's leading defence and aerospace companies - is helping to educate and inspire Africa's next generation of engineers to consider a career in the defence and aerospace industry.

The Gulf Centre for Aviation Studies (GCAS), the training arm of Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), was unanimously elected to chair the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) TRAINAIR Plus Programme Steering Committee (TPSC).

Etihad Airways chief operations officer, Captain Richard Hill, has turned the first sod to mark the construction of a $15.3 million extension to the airline's flight training centre at its Abu Dhabi headquarters.

A new simulator has landed in Dubai – but not for one of the fast growing airlines.

Jordanian flight training academy, Ayla Aviation, has appointed the former Chief Commissioner for the Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission as its new chairman.

CAE and Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) have announced an extension of their partnership to provide comprehensive academic and in-flight Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) to flight instructors and student cadets attending CAE Oxford Aviation Academy flight school programmes.

Following the launching of the PBO Academy in the Middle East during May 2012 - and from the growing interest received from the UAE and GCC stakeholders - AVTECH ME/GCAS have decided to run the executive and operational PBO workshops for the second time in UAE, at the GCAS Centre, Al Bateen Executive Airport, Abu Dhabi (27-29 November).