The Dubai Air Navigation Services (dans), the entity responsible for air traffic control (ATC) at Dubai’s airports and the Northern Emirates, has extended its joint collaboration agreement with Serco of the UK for another two years.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced global passenger traffic data for August 2019 showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) climbed 3.8% compared to the year-ago period. This was above the 3.5% annual increase for July.
Following the news that Etihad Aviation Group and Air Arabia have signed of an agreement to launch Abu Dhabi’s first low-cost airline, this has ‘rekindled’ talk of an Emirates merger with Etihad Airways, according to GlobalData.
Etihad Airways and Saudia have marked the first anniversary of their commercial partnership by announcing 12 new codeshare routes to key destinations in Asia and Europe.
Etihad Airways has welcomed the arrival of its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, unveiling a special livery design honouring its prestigious partnership with Manchester City Football Club.
Qatar Airways has signed an interline agreement with Sky Express, with immediate effect. This agreement will enable Greek passengers outside of Athens to travel seamlessly between Greece and Doha and onwards to destinations in Asia, the Middle East and Australasia.
Boeing and Bangladesh Airlines (Biman) have announced the carrier is to expand its 787 Dreamliner fleet with two additional aircraft valued at $585m at list prices.
Emirates today announced a firm order for 50 A350-900 XWB aircraft worth US$ 16 billion (AED 58.7 billion) at list prices at the Dubai Airshow 2019. Powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, delivery of the first Emirates A350 XWB is expected in May 2023, and will continue until 2028.
Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have announced an agreement to implement retrofit connectivity solutions from Boeing for its entire 787 Dreamliner aircraft fleet.
Pilot training company, CAE, is to provide a fixed training device (FTD) and full-flight simulator (FFS) configured as an Airbus A320 to OxfordSaudia, the Saudi training company set up two years ago as an authorised CAE centre.
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), has signed a firm order for 12 highly efficient wide-body Airbus A330neos and 20 long-range single-aisle A321XLRs.
Emirates has finalised its negotiations with Boeing and committed to a purchase agreement for 30 787-9 Dreamliner airplanes, valued at $8.8 billion according to list prices. The two sides signed the deal at the Dubai Airshow this morning.
Gulf Air, has signed an MoU with India's SpiceJet, to explore greater cooperation to include an interline and codeshare agreement, coordinated cargo services, engineering services and pilot training. The MoU was signed by Mr. Krešimir Kučko, Gulf Air’s Chief Executive Officer and Mr. Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director at SpiceJet.
Saudi Arabia’s SaudiGulf Airlines (SGA) is to introduce high-bandwidth connectivity to its fleet following an MoU signed at the Dubai Airshow yesterday with GDC Technics
Emirates has rolled out its A380 dressed in the striking 'Year of Tolerance' livery from its Engineering Centre, ready to take-off for the historic one-off EK 2019 flight on 29 November that will bring together the diverse, multi-cultural communities of the UAE.
Flydubai has announced that it has finalised an agreement with Smartwings to wet lease four Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft between 14 December 2019 and 25 January 2020.
Qatar Airways has received recognition of its continued commitment to environmental management at International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors meeting last week.
