Middle East & North Africa

This is up 15% in both deliveries and expenditures from the same 10-year forecast a year ago.
Business Aviation

Qatar Airways Privilege Club has signed a global strategic agreement with Visa as part of a new 10-year exclusive partnership.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Royal Jordanian’s (RJ) Vice Chairman/CEO Samer Majali has been awarded the Distinguished Aviation Alumni Award 2022.
Maintenance & Training

Comlux Completion has been successfully approved by Airbus ACJ to provide maintenance services on the latest member of the ACJ Family, the ACJ TwoTwenty.
MRO

Necessity proved the mother of invention for a Saudi Arabia-based team whose pandemic-inspired detour brought a new disinfection product to market.
Emerging Technologies

Airport developments and investment are under a sharp focus with renewed vigour and vitality in Saudi Arabia, which is projected to have the fastest passenger traffic growth until 2040.
Air Transport

By Alan Peaford
The Bahrain airshow kicks off the show season for the MENA region with its mix of civil and defence aircraft on display, a series of forums and a lot of space for exhibition and networking opportunities.
Aerospace

By Vincent Chappard
When Tunisair head Khaled Chelly was recently in Paris to inaugurate a new agency at Orly Airport and to take delivery of the airline's second A320neo, he revealed the outline of Tunisair’s tough restructuring plan.
Air Transport

Air Arabia Abu Dhabi will be participating in the 2022 edition of the Abu Dhabi Air Expo showcasing part of its growing fleet by displaying an Airbus A321neo long-range aircraft to an estimated 18,000 attendees.
Aerospace

The Bahrain International Airshow 2022 has announced four ‘ground-breaking’ forums each featuring a variety of keynote and panel sessions.
Aerospace

Flydubai has entered an agreement with Smartwings, the Czech Republic-based airline, to wet lease four Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft between 17 November 2022 and 16 January 2023.
Air Transport

Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport has received over 5.8 Million passengers up to September registering an 89.6% increase and 15.6% decline against 2021 and 2019 figures.
Airports & Networks

IATA has announced passenger data for August 2022 showing continued momentum in the air travel recovery.
Airports & Networks

Flydubai continues to grow its operations to the island nation of the Maldives with the launch of a new daily service to Gan International Airport (GAN) from 04 February 2023.
Airports & Networks

Emirates is upgrading capacity on its Narita-Dubai route with the deployment of its flagship A380 from 15 November, as Japan scraps the daily arrival cap, and lifts the COVID-19 testing and self-quarantine protocols for inbound travel.
Airports & Networks

The Secretary General of AFRAA, Abdérahmane Berthé has met Ethiopian Airlines Group Chief Executive Officer, Mesfin Tasew Bekele, for discussions in Ethiopia.
Aerospace

AFRAA has announced airline performance updates since the pandemic.
Air Transport

India’s low-cost carrier IndiGo is to launch services from Mumbai to Istanbul from January 1, 2023.
Airports & Networks

Saudi Arabia has concluded participation of the 41st International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly, where Saudi Arabia won election to the ICAO Council for the 2023-25 term.
Aerospace

By Anuradha Deenapanray
A recent agreement between Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Morocco opens the door for 'win-win' cooperation in the aerospace sector.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Walid El Khafif has been named as the new chairman & CEO of the EgyptAir Maintenance and Engineering company – part of the EgyptAir Group.
MRO

Analysis by ForwardKeys shows that flight bookings to Qatar from the thirty-one countries competing in the football World Cup finals are currently 10 times the volume of pre-pandemic levels.
Airports & Networks

AeroGuard Flight Training Centre, a global ab-initio pilot training group, has launched AeroGuard Arabia near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, its first campus located outside the U.S.A.
Maintenance & Training

Abu Dhabi will be hosting the 16th edition of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG).
Aerospace

By Alan Peaford
The EgyptAir Group is set to formally announce a new Chairman and CEO this week.
Maintenance & Training