Following the Qatar boycott of four of its neighboring countries (the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt) Qatar Airways was forced to redeploy 20% of its capacity due to the inaccessibility of its single most important market Dubai and 17 other destinations it could no longer fly to.
DC Aviation Al-Futtaim will open a second hangar in the Aviation District of Dubai South. With the opening, the company has more than doubled its capacity on the site.
The Middle East airliner fleet will more than double over the next 20 years as carriers spend $600 billion on additional aircraft, according to the latest forecast from Airbus.
It was born earlier this year with the unimaginative name C-FNXK, but the Bombardier Global Express (Global 6000) in the static display at Dubai would be better named “Lucy” – because it is indeed “In the Sky with Diamonds”.
The U.S. government is in the early stages of discussions about selling the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to the UAE and other allies in the Persian Gulf, according to top brass.
The Engine Alliance is expected to decide early in 2016 if the business case justifies development of a further, and probably final, upgrade kit for the Airbus A380 GP7200 engine.
Saudi Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) says its new $1 billion maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility will be open for business by the end of 2016.
The crash, possibly caused by a bomb explosion, was a “game changer in our industry,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark believes. The consequences will have to be “addressed on an industry level, but it is not in the hands of the airlines.”
FlyDubai plans to keep a small sub-fleet of all-economy aircraft even though its move into offering business class is considered a success according to CEO Gaith Al Gaith.
Boeing officials say they have won a couple of fighter competitions in the Middle East that have yet to be formally approved and are “frustrated” at the slow action. _
The United Arab Emirates Air Force is to upgrade its two Saab Erieye airborne early-warning aircraft and will buy two new multi-mission systems on a Bombardier Global 6000 platform in a deal valued at $1.27bn.
Among the biggest obstacles to the development of the global unmanned aircraft market are the legal and technical issues preventing routine flights of UAS alongside conventional air traffic. Last year, an experimental flight took place in Dubai that answered some of these questions.
The United Arab Emirates Air Force is planning for the introduction a new fleet of airborne early warning and control aircraft as part of a push to enhance the air and missile defense capability of the Gulf state.
Behind the attention-grabbing B-1 Lancer and F-22 Raptor displays lies a massively expanded presence by American companies, both here and at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference next week.
According to Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers John Leahy, the A380neo would not only be equipped with new engines. A stretch would require a smaller tail plane for stability, thus could become lighter on a relative basis.
Thales has announced a contract with Etihad to equip its A350 fleet with the French manufacturer's dual head-up display (HUD) system. The order covers the first 12 of the 62 A350s the airline has on order, and delivery of the HUD-equipped jets is due by December 2017.
During a demonstration flight in Dubai in September, Lockheed Martin showed how the two cutting-edge technologies could be combined to provide a powerful took to aid one of the UAE's most crucial business sectors: the construction industry.
