Air traffic management and technology specialist Thales, has been selected by construction company Basil Read to supply and install air traffic management equipment and solutions for a new airport on St Helena Island.
Route development and network planners from more than 30 African airlines will be heading to Uganda in July as the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda and Entebbe International Airport has announced they are to jointly host the eighth Routes Africa.
The Government of Oman has appointed American consultants, Hill International, to take over the major expansion and modernisation projects at Muscat and Salalah airports after cancelling the contract of the Cowi-Laursen joint venture team that has been involved for the past five years.
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) this week launched its annual safety campaign and exhibition at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Supported by ADAC's regulatory, subsidiary, operational and airline partners, the goal of the campaign was to promote airside safety and occupational health, safety & environment amongst all ADAC employees, and subsidiary employees, in order to ensure a safe and secure workplace, and to maintain the operational integrity of the airport.
Virgin Australia has applied to Australia's regulator, IASC, the International Air Services Commission, for approval to add the Etihad code on its flights to Phuket in Thailand. This is part of the codeshare alliance agreed earlier this year.
The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) announced earlier today that it had been advised by the Fuel Consortium that the fuel line between NATREF and OR Tambo International Airport was contaminated with off-specification Jet A-1 - rendering the fuel unfit for use by airlines - but this has not affected flights.
