Middle East & North Africa

NASA has selected Boeing and its industry team to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) demonstrator aircraft.

Emirates has announced that it will reintroduce its flagship A380 to Casablanca as part of the airline’s ramp up of operations to Morocco.

Etihad Cargo is expanding its capacity offering to the Chinese market by introducing an additional weekly Abu Dhabi – Shanghai freighter flight from 2 February 2023.

Egypt is continuing a major modernisation of its armed forces – and especially the air force. This has, in recent years, discarded its last F-4E Phantoms, Dassault Mirage 5s, and Chinese built F-7 ‘Fishbeds’, and is replacing them with more modern fighter types.

XTEND has been awarded a contract by Israel Ministry of Defense for the development and supply of a first-of-its-kind multi-drone operating system.

UTC, the new state of the art Indra system, went live at Bahrain Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications’ Civil Aviation Affairs (CAA) facilities this week without any interruptions.

Qatar Airways has signed a comprehensive codeshare agreement with Air Serbia.

Etihad has signed the world’s first multi-year commercial production contract with Satavia to integrate contrail management within routine operations.

Gulfstream Aerospace has earned four National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Sustainable Flight Department Accreditations.

Gulf Air will return to some of its favourite beach destinations for the summer season of 2023, as the airline also adds the new route of Goa.

Emirates will ramp up frequencies to Hong Kong with a daily non-stop service from its Dubai hub, starting from 29 March 2023.

Aerospace Xelerated has announced the 11 start-ups working on digital services and solutions that will join their fourth cohort to solve key challenges for the aerospace sector.

Emirates will ramp up its operations in China ahead of the New Lunar Year with twice weekly services to Shanghai and a daily to Beijing.

Embraer has secured a new firm order for 15 new E195-E2 aircraft from an undisclosed customer.

Air cargo company Challenge Group will start the new year with an inaugural Challenge Airlines flight out of Istanbul, Turkey on 25 January 2023.

Royal Jordanian has increased its services between Amman and Aqaba.

Etihad Airways will be introducing two exciting routes this year, connecting Abu Dhabi to Copenhagen in Denmark and Düsseldorf in Germany from October 1.

The global aviation analytics group OAG has named Etihad Airways as the most punctual airline in the Middle East and among the most reliable in the world.

Pratt and Whitney has already reached two milestones this year with its GTF engines.

Emirates will scale up its A380 operations with the iconic double-decker returning to Glasgow (26 March 2023), Nice (1 June 2023) and Birmingham (1 July 2023).

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Emirates has invested with new high-speed, inflight broadband powered by Inmarsat’s GX Aviation, onboard 50 new Airbus A350 aircraft - scheduled to enter service in 2024.

Emirates will resume its services to Tokyo-Haneda starting from 2 April 2023.

Wizz Air has officially inaugurated two new connections between Budapest and Riyadh and Bucharest and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

Airbus UpNext, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus, has started testing new, on ground and in-flight, pilot assistance technologies on an A350-1000 test aircraft.