Middle East & North Africa

Alpha Aviation Academy has announced that the one hundredth cadet has graduated from its pilot training centre in Sharjah, UAE.
Maintenance & Training

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced that Qatar Executive has agreed to purchase up to 30 Gulfstream aircraft as part of an MoU originally announced in October of last year.
Business Aviation

Riyadh-based Alpha Star Aviation Services has turned to Jet Aviation Basel to complete an ACJ319 and an ACJ330 for the company's rapidly expanding fleet.
Interiors & Connectivity

GDC Technics is stepping into Africa to develop MRO and modification services across the continent and challenge existing providers in Southern Europe.
MRO

Ever since its first meeting on the Dead Sea shores, in 1995, the World Economic Forum has been selecting Royal Jordanian to be the official carrier of the forum participants.
Aerospace

Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC) see success rate in terms of passenger growth in the Oman during the first quarter of 2015.
Airports & Networks

Abu Dhabi Airports has announced the successful completion of the installation and renovation of baggage handling systems at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.
Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways has announced the expansion of its A350 services to Germany, with the new state-of-the-art aircraft being deployed on its Doha-Munich route.
Airports & Networks

flydubai has announced direct flights to Quetta in Pakistan. Flights to the airline's fourth destination in the country will commence on June 11 2015 with three flights a week.
Airports & Networks

Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) and Lufthansa Technik are to expand their successful co-operation in pre-defined VIP cabin completions by offering the Elite concept on the ACJ319.
Interiors & Connectivity

A new lightweight VVIP cabin has been delivered on time by the Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC) to an undisclosed customer in Asia, who requested to fly from Southern Asia to Los Angeles.
Interiors & Connectivity

Kuwait is believed to be close to signing a deal for F-18 Super Hornets with US manufacturer Boeing.
Defense

ExecuJet Middle East is working on first design concepts for its new $35m terminal at Dubai Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central (DWC), ahead of the move of all general aviation (GA) traffic to the airport in 2017.
Airports & Networks

Gulf Air has engaged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to evaluate the airline's existing information security solutions and, as a result, has most recently implemented HP latest generation of Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to bolster its Information Technology security and network data protection.
Emerging Technologies

Airbus has launched the ACJ320neo, The launch customer for the long-anticipated variant is Farnborough, UK-based Acropolis Aviation.
Business Aviation

TAV Airports Holding has received the "Internal Auditing Awareness” award of Institute of Internal Auditing, Turkey.
Airports & Networks

Boeing has named Bernie Dunn president of Boeing Middle East. Dunn will be based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and report to Marc Allen, president of Boeing International. The change is effective immediately.
Maintenance & Training

UAE General Civil Aviation Authority took part in the third round of GCC-EU Aviation Dialogue concluded in Doha.
Aerospace

Jetex Flight Support and Chile-based Santiago FBO has announced the establishment of a joint venture to jointly manage an FBO at Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL), Chile's largest aviation facility and main international airport.
Business Aviation

Bell Helicopter has announced the sale of the first Bell 407GXP in Europe. Istanbul based, Saran Aviation's new aircraft will be outfitted to perform corporate and VIP transport in the region.
Aerospace

Air Arabia has been named “Best Low-Cost Carrier” at the World Tourism Forum Awards in Istanbul, Turkey.
Aerospace

AJA (Al Jaber Aviation), the Abu Dhabi-based private jet charter and aircraft management company, is planning a 'Jet Centre of Excellence' in establishing an aircraft maintenance organisation (Part 145 AMO) at the UAE capital's Al Bateen Executive Airport in joint venture with an internationally established player.
MRO

Spectrum Aeromed has completed customising a Lear 45 with a dual patient system medical interior for Red Star, a long-term customer in Turkey. The Lear 45 was also granted an aircraft operator certificate.
Business Aviation

Emirates Official Store launches official Emirates' cabin crew and pilot uniform for children in its Spring/Summer 2015 collection.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Etihad Airways has appointed Emirati national, Captain Majed Al Marzouqi, as its new vice president for Ccrporate safety and quality.
Maintenance & Training