Middle East & North Africa

Etihad Airways and global IT and communications provider, SITA , has announced a 10-year strategic partnership.
Emerging Technologies

Indian airline Jet Airways, has commenced seven new flights a week between Kochi and Kuwait, via Abu Dhabi.
Airports & Networks

AN RAF navigator has been awarded a top French medal for the second time in three years, for heroism under fire while protecting civilians from attack by Colonel Gaddaffi's forces in Libya.
Defense

Travelport and Emirates, have launched Emirates' Inspire Me travel application on the Emirates website, http://tinyurl.com/Emirates-Inspire-Me, for consumers who want to travel but have no preconceived destinations in mind.
Emerging Technologies

Oman Air revealed an order for five Boeing Next-Generation 737-900ER airplanes at the Paris Air Show yesterday. The order, previously unidentified on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, is valued at $473 million at current list prices.
Air Transport

Pegasus Airlines launched its new route to Doha, Qatar, on 16 June with flights running three times a week from Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport.
Airports & Networks

Tunisia's Syphax Airlines, has become the African launch customer for the Airbus A320neo.
Air Transport

As an exclusive part of British Airways' 'Weekend Savers' campaign, the airline has slashed its fares from Saudi Arabia to London by nearly 50 percent in First and Club World for bookings made between 20 June 2013 and 22 June 2013, with other fares available in World Traveller Plus and World Traveller.
Air Transport

Airbus Corporate Jet VIP cabin completion specialist, ACJC, has become the first completion centre to install and activate the system GCS (Global Communication Suite), on a single aisle Airbus aircraft on behalf of an unnamed Middle Eastern client.
Interiors & Connectivity

Opportunities for foreign investment into Kuwait have received a massive boost thanks to the current parliament passing more business enabling legislation than any other parliament before it.
Aerospace

Qatar Airways has announced an expansion of its Boeing 787 services to Europe with the new state-of-the-art aircraft being deployed on three Scandinavian routes.
Airports & Networks

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has launched its comprehensive four month staff summer safety and heat awareness campaign, to ensure that employees have the knowledge and tools they need to work safely during the hot summer months.
Airports & Networks

Growing demand supported by strong intent and investment capability is expanding the market for military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Middle East. The region is already considered a lucrative market for defence. UAV development efforts by some Middle East nations coupled with imports from the U.S. will strongly bolster market expansion.
Defense

After its $9 million complete upgrade and refurbishment in France, the new look Boeing Business Jet (A6-AIN), owned by Abu Dhabi's Royal Jet, is now back in service.
Business Aviation

Oman Air has placed a $200m order with Rolls-Royce for Trent 700 engines to power three Airbus A330 aircraft.
MRO

Gulf Air has added seven extra flights weekly to and from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, increasing capacity on the route by over 30% to meet a growing market demand. The airline will now operate one extra frequency daily increasing its scheduled flights to three per day the key city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Airports & Networks

Dubai's Emirates airline plans to lease new Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft from a finance company that will issue $630 million of bond-type certificates to fund the purchase of the planes, reports Reuters.
Air Transport

According to Yemen's News Agency, SABA, an agreement to develop closer links between Mauritania and Yemen has been signed in Nouakchott by the chairman of the board of directors of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority (CAMA), Hamed Faraj, and Abu Bakr al-Sedik Ould Mohammed al-Hasan. the general manager of the Mauritanian National Agency of Civil Aviation (NACA).
Air Transport

Dubai World Central (DWC) has appointed Altran exclusive advisor and service designer for the development of the Aviation District, the first innovative maintenance services centre dedicated to business jets and helicopters.
Airports & Networks

Dubai International has racked up another month of double-digit growth with 18.9 per cent increase in passenger numbers recorded in May, according to a traffic report issued by operator Dubai Airports on Wednesday.
Airports & Networks

Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air has renewed its contract with Sabre Airline Solutions, the airline's long time business partner providing passenger service solutions, for a new reservations system software package.
Emerging Technologies

Air Arabia is studying the purchase of additional narrow-body aircraft, reports Bloomberg.
Air Transport

Nabil Sultan, whose career spans more than 20 years in commercial roles within Emirates, has been appointed the new divisional senior vice president, cargo.
Maintenance & Training

Abu Dhabi Airports Company's (ADAC) Gulf Centre for Aviation Studies (GCAS) and Thales Université, the training and education arm of Thales Group, have signed an MoU that aims at exploring opportunities for establishing training solutions targeting high-level professional and academic programmes with a focus on technical, engineering, maintenance and project management training in the field of aviation.
Maintenance & Training

Emirates Airlines is making a name for itself on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network which has 225 million members globally.
Emerging Technologies