Austrian jet card and charter services provider VistaJet has announced a firm order for three new Bombardier business jets: a Global 5000 and two Challenger 850s. Valued at around US$110 million, the aircraft augment the firm's US$2 billion order backlog.

UK-based aerospace design, analysis and modelling software solutions company j2 Aircraft Dynamics Ltd has announced it has won a $170,000 contract with the Ministry of Science and Technology in Iraq to provide them with an aircraft design lab in Iraq and associated training and education over a 2 week course in the UK.

Jet Aviation has appointed Abdullah Al-Ghamdi as the new customer relations manager and sales representative for aircraft management and charter services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & GCC.

A total of 31 UAE national cadet pilots, 10 graduate managers, one engineer graduate and 77 contact centre staff from the UAE and an additional 11 graduating cadet pilots of other nationalities, were welcomed to Etihad in a ceremony held yesterday at the Al Raha Beach Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Ruedi Kraft, the face of Gulfstream in the Middle East has left the business jet manufacturer to take up a key role with another General Dynamics subidiary, Jet Aviation

Re-stocking needs and new aircraft orders give MRO providers reason to expect good business next year.

Jetstream Aviation Academy has announced the opening of its new Training Centre in Dubai Silicon Oasis FZE - to meet regional airlines' increasing demand for flight and cabin crew training - and its participation in the forthcoming Dubai Airshow.

Gulf Air has appointed Rick Saggar as its new Country Manager for the United Kingdom and Ireland