Middle East & North Africa

Oman Air and SalamAir have announced greater cooperation to align both airlines’ networks for passenger growth in and out of Oman.

Saudi Arabian group, Aviation Horizons, has broadened its interests by launching a new cargo airline.

Qatar Airways is to resume flights to London Gatwick Airport from 5 June, 2022.

The Falcon 6X has completed cold weather testing, passing another major milestone towards certification, expected later this year.

Emirates will be commencing daily services to Tel Aviv from 23 June 2022.

Bahrain’s Gulf Aviation Academy has signed a new partnership agreement with Mumbai-based Aeon Software.

New UAE-based lessor, Sirius Aviation Capital Holdings, aims to have 100 aircraft in its portfolio three years from now.

Turkey’s TAV Airports has received the prestigious Airport Service Quality award at five of its airports; Izmir Adnan Menderes, Ankara Esenboga, Medina, Tbilisi and Skopje.

Comlux is to launch a new cross-functional organisation within the Group, Comlux Tech.

Mubadala subsidiary Sanad is to collaborate with Thales to extend industrial services for airport security, air traffic and avionics systems.

Rolls-Royce has reached a key milestone in its UltraFan technology demonstrator programme as the power gearbox (PGB) is dispatched from the company’s site in Germany.

Consolidation and increased collaboration in the wake of the pandemic is less a result of the current disruption and more an acceleration of a pre-existing trend. Chuck Grieve reviews the MRO picture.

ACI EUROPE and IATA have called for all remaining COVID restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be dropped.

BIRD Aerosystems has received another order for a King-Air 350 Special Mission Maritime Patrol Aircraft from an undisclosed customer.

Qatar Airways Cargo carried 190 of the world’s fastest racehorses and finest show jumping and dressage horses on its freighters over the past few weeks.

The Emirates Group has opened the region’s first and largest solar carport at a sporting facility.

IATA announced that the recovery in air travel slowed for both domestic and international in January 2022 compared to December 2021.

Gulf Air has started its countdown to be the title sponsor of the Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2022, which will take place between 18-20 March 2022.

Dnata has been appointed to manage easyJet’s inflight retail services across the airline’s extensive network.

Qatar Airways will resume its service to the Namibian capital, Windhoek from 25 June 2022 as part of its largest ever African schedule.

The news headlines from the aerospace and defence industry across Arabia, Africa and South Asia this week, comes from World Defense Show and the Times Aerospace news studio.

Turkish Airlines will provide one-night stay in a 4-Star hotel for Economy Class and two nights stay in a 5-Star hotel for Business Class in Istanbul as a stopover service - through a hotel voucher that is issued after the ticket purchase.

Following four trade days that brought together 600 defence and security exhibitors from 42 countries, World Defense Show concluded its first edition today recording SAR29.7bn in deals.

Dassault Aviation now offers a new HEPA air filtration option for the Falcon 2000EX Series (EX EASy-DX-LX-LXS and S models).

Gulfstream Aerospace is continuing to invest in its super-midsize Gulfstream G280 with the addition of an even lower cabin altitude and new LED exterior lights.