Emerging Technologies

IATA's new environment committee head has been named as Etihad Airways' environmental affairs chief, Linden Coppell
Maintenance & Training

Lufthansa has launched the world's first ever daily commercial passenger flights using biofuel.
Emerging Technologies

Sabre Travel Network - a travel technology provider - and flydubai, have signed a multi-year global distribution agreement, providing the carrier access to more than 350,000 Sabre travel agency users around the world.
Emerging Technologies

Al Ain-based composites aerostructures manufacturer Strata has said its first consignment of parts has been shipped to Airbus for its long-range A330/A340 aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

ARINC has announced that its vMUSETM common-use passenger processing technology has become the first CUPPS Platform to successfully pass compliance testing under the latest CUPPS version, V1.03.
Emerging Technologies

Saudi Arabian Airlines has recognised the importance of technology investments to maintain and grow its business in line with the travel momentum in the region and has announced the successful implementation of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business solutions software to ensure best practice across the organisation.
Emerging Technologies

Lufthansa has announced the launch of an app for travel fans in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
Emerging Technologies

Airlines carrying 57% of the world's passenger traffic have reported a real increase in IT and Telecommunications (IT&T) expenditure and are ready to spend big on passenger mobile services and other transformative technology, according to results published today in the 13th annual SITA/Airline Business Airline IT Trends Survey.
Interiors & Connectivity

Air transport industry IT specialist integrated communications service provider for businesses, have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure for the aviation industry. .
Emerging Technologies

Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has signed two contracts with Selex Galileo to include delivery of SELEX Galileo's PicoSAR and cutting edge ESCAN radar technologies for joint research, development and demonstration purposes, and a series of training and industrial participation modules centred around SELEX Galileo's world renowned radar expertise.
Emerging Technologies

Airbus and Rolls-Royce are to jointly develop the A350-1000 with more powerful Trent XWB engines, EADS said at a presentation ahead of the Paris Airshow.
Emerging Technologies

US technology firm Honeywell earned a place in the record books this morning as it successfully completed a transatlantic flight using biofuels.
Emerging Technologies

Passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines are making the most of the inflight connectivity on the company's Airbus A330 fleet, but not in the way the airline had predicted.
Emerging Technologies

Eclipse Aerospace, - the VLJ manufacturer part-owned by Turkish investors -. announced today the “sold out” success of the Avio IFMS completion programme.
Emerging Technologies

Inmarsat has won top honours at an industry forum for its contribution to the development of the satellite communications sector in the Middle East region.
Space

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that its Rockwell Collins Global Vision flight deck has been granted certification from Transport Canada
Emerging Technologies

Gulf Air has today outlined its corporate social responsibility (CSR) plan and initiatives for 2011.
Air Transport

Vanderlande Industries kicked off the Airport Show in Dubai this morning with an environmental boost for the industry as it unveiled to the Middle East for the first time, its new, environment-friendly blueveyor conveyor system.
Airports & Networks

Dubai-based low-cost carrier, flydubai, has ordered 31 zonal drying systems from CTT to be installed in the airline's new B737-800 aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

Bayanat Airports Engineering and Supplies and Adacel, the UK-based developer of advanced air traffic control simulators and automated ATM systems announced an agreement ahead of their joint presence of the Airport Show which opens in Dubai on Tuesday.
Maintenance & Training

Six weeks after its first public presentation at the international Aero-Expo in Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Airbus sponsored technology demonstrator “eGenius” performed its maiden flight yesterday in the late afternoon from the airfield in Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany.
Emerging Technologies

OnAir and TriaGnoSys have today launched the most lightweight and complete turnkey solution for business jets. It enables passengers to use their mobile devices and laptops for calls, text messages, emailing and Internet browsing, as they do on the ground.
Emerging Technologies

In a move to provide airlines with optimised delivery of online services, airline technology company SITA today announced a partnership with content delivery network provider, CDNetworks. Together the companies will enable airlines to service customers up to three times faster via the Internet and mobile devices, and to handle peak traffic more efficiently.
Emerging Technologies

Boeing has partnered with the UAE charity Action Care to help young children in Kuwait, through its support of an Start Early programme.
Aerospace

Honeywell's HTF7250G turbofan engine which will power the Gulfstream G250 super mid-size business jet G250 super mid-size business jet has been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company said at EBACE today.
Emerging Technologies