Lockheed Martin has received a direct commercial sale contract from the Bahrain Defense Force (BDF) to provide Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods (ATP) for its F-16 fleet, becoming the 25th international customer for the programme.
The nicemedia premium content service launched by SD at MEBAA 2016 for aircraft equipped with niceHD cabin systems is now available for all IFE/CMS platforms.
Dubai has introduced new procedures that look likely to reduce peak-time arrival delays by up to 40% at the world's busiest international airport. Alan Peaford reports.
South African Airlines (SAA) has been making good use of a system run by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to better understand and predict weather in the region. Steve Nichols reports.
AfBAC EXPO, the African Business Aviation Association's first combined conference, exhibition and static display, has confirmed that the event which takes place later this month, is being supported by the South African Civil Aviation Authority, with its director of Civil Aviation, Poppy Khoza, giving a keynote address.
The air transport industry has cybersecurity as a top priority with 95% of airlines and 96% of airports investing resources into major cybersecurity programs or pilots over the next three years.
ExecuJet, part of the Luxaviation Group, has expanded the maintenance offering at its Nigeria facility with the announcement that it is now an authorised Rockwell Collins avionics dealership for Nigeria and the West Africa region.
Leonardo has made further gains in the African Air Traffic Control (ATC) domain, announcing at African Air Show 2017 today that the company has signed two contracts to provide ATC systems for Somalia and Sudan.
Airports Council International's (ACI) Chair Declan Collier, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), London City Airports, turned over the Chair position of the ACI World Governing Board to Bongani Maseko, CEO and Executive Director, Airports Company South Africa. Martin Eurnekian, CEO, Corporación América was also appointed as Vice-Chair.
Ethiopian Immigration and Nationality Affairs main Department in collaboration with Ethiopian Airlines Group has launched E-Visa service for African and international participants of Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions.
Airbus has teamed up with Routehappy, the merchandising content platform for flight shopping, to accelerate the transformation of flight shopping from commoditised to differentiated.
Ethiopian Airlines Group fully digitalised all its business processes like aircraft maintenance and Flight Operations, Commercial Operations, Finance, HRM, Customer Services, Procurement and supply Chain Management, Online learning, management approvals and authorisations etc… by removing paper from the entire system as of September 28, 2017.
South African Airways (SAA) has announced the start date of its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the airline's headquarters, Airways Park, Johannesburg, as November 1, 2017.
Gogo Business Aviation is expanding its reach to become a global provider with the announcement of a high throughput satellite service for business aviation.
SITAONAIR has added Inmarsat's next generation flightdeck connectivity solution SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S) to its portfolio, as part of a renewed and expanded strategic agreement between the two companies.
Inmarsat has signed a strategic agreement with Rockwell Collins for the global distribution of its next-generation SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S) flightdeck connectivity solution.
