Middle East & North Africa

Güliz Öztürk, CEO of Pegasus Airlines, received the Executive Leadership: Europe award at the Airline Strategy Awards.

Oman Air has entered a new sponsorship deal with Chelsea FC that will see Oman Air become the club’s global airline partner for the next three years.

Bader bin Saleh Alsagri, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative at ICAO has been named as the new Chair of the UN organisation’s aviation security committee

Alan Warnes looks at Bahrain’s military training needs and asks whether a new approach is needed.

On an average week, over 50,000 travellers connect to their destination of choice on codeshare or interline flights operated by Emirates’ and its partners.

Egypt’s national carrier Air Cairo has appointed TripAdmit to drive sales of tours and activities with the flagship airline.

Jazeera Airways has launched its first sustainability report, “Flying Green – a Step towards Sustainable Aviation."

Diamond Aircraft has delivered its first DA62 MPP to Qatar’s Centre for Geographic Information Systems (CGIS)

Iraq is said to have concluded a deal to purchase 12 JF-17 combat aircraft from Pakistan.

Emirates has partnered with Extime in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, to offer premium travellers a new exclusively dedicated lounge space in Terminal 1.

Etihad Airways and UK aerospace company, Satavia, have signed a contract that aims to dramatically reduce atmosphere-warming contrails.

A new flight experience is – based on vital training techniques – is about to be offered in the UAE.

Emirates has launched an additional set of programmes that have been specifically designed to develop top UAE National Talent.

Qatar Airways Group has reported a strong financial performance for 2022/2023.

Aviation innovation is said to be hardcoded into the Emirates Group’s DNA and this was brought to life at the new Innovation Majlis unveiled by HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman & chief executive Emirates Group at its Dubai headquarters yesterday.

Textron Aviation has been awarded a contract by AvMet International for a Beechcraft King Air 360CHW (cargo door, heavy weight) and four Beechcraft King Air 260 aircraft to support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Meteorology programme for cloud seeding.

Emirates has launched an on-demand regional charter service.

Jazeera Airways will connect to Tehran with direct flights starting from 14 July 2023.

Reports that the passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion market is overheating may be premature, an opinion that MROs are backing up with their actions.

Emirates landed in Montréal last week marking the start of its scheduled services to its second gateway in Canada.

Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) is increasing its flights by adding 7.4 million seats for domestic and international routes during July and August.

Emirates celebrated the launch of its Premium Economy offering in Singapore last week with a tour of one of its enhanced four-class A380 aircraft.

Aerostructures specialist, Spirit Aerosystems, is powering ahead with an increased range of components produced in its Casablanca, Morocco facility.

British Airways has officially opened ‘CallBA’, its new call centre located in Gurugram, near Delhi.

Record profits and passenger numbers – not to mention a new Saudi sister-company – are focusing attention on Kuwaiti low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways.