Middle East & North Africa

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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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.

Gulf Air and Unilode Aviation Solutions, a provider in outsourced unit load device (ULD) management, repair and digital services, have renewed their longstanding ULD management partnership for another 10-year term.

AviLease, an aircraft lessor, and the Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC) have signed an MoU to launch the production and distribution of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Saudi Arabia.

Boeing has reported 774 commercial orders last year after cancellations and conversions.

Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) is making important steps to secure its place as an industry-leading airline for its commitment to environmental responsibility, seeing sustainability management as an integral part of its corporate strategy.

Now that Algeria has lifted health restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, it has allowed the country to increase flight numbers, opening up great prospects.

Emirates, the official main sponsor of Real Madrid, welcomed the Spanish football club onboard a specially chartered A380 flight from Madrid to Riyadh yesterday.

(IATA) has announced that the air travel recovery continued through November 2022.

DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) has added a Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft to its managed fleet.

Gulf Air has extended an agreement with flydocs, an asset management solution provider for the aviation industry, to provide digital records management software.

Etihad Airways is advertising for its future cabin crew.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for November 2022 global air cargo markets showing that demand softened as economic headwinds persist.

Royal Jordanian (RJ) was ranked as the Middle East and Africa’s (MEA) second most on-time airline for the year 2022 - according to Cirium, the global aviation analytics leader.

Libya has reportedly ordered an undisclosed number of Hürkus-C turboprops from Turkish Aerospace (TAI), with Major General Muhammad Gojil, the Libyan Air Force chief of staff, signing a formal agreement.