National Aviation Services has won a contract to provide aircraft maintenance certification to Qatar Airways at its home base of Kuwait.

Dassault Falcon operators from Saudi Arabia joined others from the United States, France, Switzerland, South Africa and Brazil in the fifth E-Forum run by the French business jet manufacturer.

Etihad Airways could soon be carrying out aircraft line maintenance work on behalf of other major European airlines, following a successful recent audit of its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) capabilities.

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has concluded contracts with BAE Systems to support the EJ200 engines powering the Typhoon fleet of the Royal Saudi Air Force.

Airbus operators in Europe are being called on to inspect and replace parts on Hamilton Sundstrand ram air turbines (RATs) following an EASA directive on the back up power generation systems.

Operators of the 20 Legacy 600s in the Middle East had the chance to get to grips with technical issues and flight operations programmes in the second Embraer Legacy Operators meeting held at the Dubai Creek Sheraton today.

Etihad's move towards greener operations took another step forwarfd with the introduction of a new cleaning programme from Permagard - the first long haul carrier to implement the product.

Goodrich, which recently announced the addition of electronic engine controls (EEC) repair capability to the range of services at its Dubai MRO centre, says it eventually plans to expand provision from early variants of the Rolls-Royce Trent to cover the entire engine series.