Egyptair Maintenance & Engineering (EM&E) and Alitalia have signed a mutual agreement for Alitalia B777-200ER maintenance check and Egypt A320 landing gear overhaul

The UAE's major defence MRO provider has a new key shareholder.

Bahrain is to get a new state-of-the-art FBO for general and business aviation which the country's airport operating company says will be one of the largest in the MENA region.

Turkish Technic has signed a C Check maintenance services agreement for two base maintenance C checks on Boeing B737-400 withTailwind Airlines. Maintenance works will be carried at Turkish Technic's facilities in Istanbul, Turkey during January 2011.

A J Walter Aviation is expanding its commercial jet engine management business.

Dubai Aerospace subsidiary StandardAero has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval to re-engine the Hawker Beechcraft King Air F90 aircraft with Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PT6A-135A engines.

Turkish Technik has won the contract to carry out the re-delivery check and paint Services for the Airbus A321 aircraft owned by Sky Airlines. The work on the three aircraft will be carried out by the end of this month.

Malta's place as an MRO provider to Middle Eastern business jet operators has been given another boost with the announcement that AP Malta Ltd. (Aeronautical Professionals Malta Limited), a subsidiary of the Maintenance Centre Munich Group, has obtained its EASA Part M approval from the regulating authority, Transport Malta.