Market opportunities for private aircraft in the Middle East, successful pre-buy inspections, used aircraft price changes and more discussed by Opus Aero VP Sales Aurelie Millet in a Gulfstream G450 at the Dubai Airshow.
The United Arab Emirates is shifting its space program focus to economic gains and security, blending civil-military efforts in a bid to become a space power.
The small numbers of passengers using many of West Africa’s air routes were a major factor behind Air Côte d’Ivoire selecting the Embraer 175 for its fleet.
For Emirates’ long-haul fleet, the challenge is twofold: maintaining aging widebodies while looking beyond their likely life spans to the next big thing.
Airbus has forged an agreement with UAE-based Calidus that could potentially lead to the creation of an MRO facility for the A400M airlifter in the UAE.
Under the agreement, signed during the Dubai Airshow and announced Nov. 21, Mubadala’s Strata aircraft parts-making unit would get work packages on the A400M.
In spite of geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty, airlines in the Gulf region are spending big money on large new narrowbody and widebody fleets.
As the 2025 Dubai Airshow ends, this week’s Flight Friday examines flights of lower-cost carriers in the region as compared to the equivalent month in 2019.
