Like all good shopkeepers Steve Varsano sometimes steps away from his store to meet his customers on their territory. And this week at MEBA, as Marcelle Nethersole found out, Varsano has a booth to do just that.
Airbus Corporate Jets has revealed its new VIP cabin concept for wide-bodied corporate airliners, designed with an eye to the growing Middle Eastern market.
Swiss-AS was selected by Pegasus Airlines to provide and implement its maintenance and engineering software AMOS. When fully implemented, all maintenance processes for the carrier will be managed electronically.
Travelport, the business services provider to the travel industry, has appointed Stuart Laird-Smith as Head of Commercial Strategy for the Middle East and Africa.
Parker Aerospace and GE Aviation agreed to form a joint venture (JV) to enhance the development and the manufacture of commercial aircraft engine fuel nozzles. The JV, Advanced Atomization Technologies, will be based at the Parker Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division facility in Clyde, New York. Saab named Görgen Johansson as head of its dynamics business area. Johansson has served as CFO at Saab since March.
Qatar Airways has extended its flight crew training agreement with Bahrain based Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) and has signed a long-term agreement for training to be delivered at GAA's facilities in Bahrain.
Boeing was selected by Guggenheim Aviation Partners to manage and engineer the conversion of three Boeing 767-300ERs to freighters, for delivery in 2013. The conversion will take place at ST Aerospace subsidiary ST Aviation Services Co. in Paya Lebar, Singapore.
Abu Dhabi-based AMMROC (Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Center) and Turbine Services & Solutions (TS&S) - both part of Mubadala Aerospace, have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Institute (ADVETI) to sponsor training programs for UAE nationals.
TIMCO Aviation Services purchased the assets of PEMCO World Air Services aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operation at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. It has leased the hangar previously occupied by PEMCO to serve regional aircraft operators at the facility.
Dr Antonio Luis Pimentel Araujo, chairman and CEO of TAAG Angola Airlines has been elected by the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) to become chairman of the association's executive committee.
Former Egyptian civil aviation minister Hussein Massoud was honoured by the African Airline Association at its annual assembly in Johannesburg this morning
Former Egyptian civil aviation minister Hussein Massoud was honoured by the African Airline Association at its annual assembly in Johannesburg this morning
TP Aerospace won contracts from Bulgarian carrier Cargo Air for Boeing 737-300F wheels and brakes programs. It signed a multiyear brake-for-less program with TP Aerospace Solutions; a three-year wheel maintenance program through TP Aerospace Technics; and an agreement to assist Cargo Air in streamlining the commonality between installed wheels and brakes equipment on its fleet of three 737 freighters.
On Tuesday 13 November 2012, the Ethiopian Aviation Academy (EAA) graduated 255 trainees from its schools of aviation maintenance, marketing and cabin crew.
Turkish Technic signed a C check maintenance services agreement with Airblue Limited covering one Airbus A319. MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg has completed the overhaul of 5,000 engines since its founding in 1991. Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services won a contract from Kenya Airways to convert two passenger Boeing 737-300 aircraft to freighters with Aeronautical Engineers. It will be Boeing Shanghai’s first PTF conversion.
Paramount Group - one of Africa's leading defence and aerospace companies - is helping to educate and inspire Africa's next generation of engineers to consider a career in the defence and aerospace industry.
The Gulf Centre for Aviation Studies (GCAS), the training arm of Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), was unanimously elected to chair the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) TRAINAIR Plus Programme Steering Committee (TPSC).
Etihad Airways chief operations officer, Captain Richard Hill, has turned the first sod to mark the construction of a $15.3 million extension to the airline's flight training centre at its Abu Dhabi headquarters.
Jordanian flight training academy, Ayla Aviation, has appointed the former Chief Commissioner for the Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission as its new chairman.
CAE and Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) have announced an extension of their partnership to provide comprehensive academic and in-flight Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) to flight instructors and student cadets attending CAE Oxford Aviation Academy flight school programmes.
Following the launching of the PBO Academy in the Middle East during May 2012 - and from the growing interest received from the UAE and GCC stakeholders - AVTECH ME/GCAS have decided to run the executive and operational PBO workshops for the second time in UAE, at the GCAS Centre, Al Bateen Executive Airport, Abu Dhabi (27-29 November).
