Middle East & North Africa

Emirates has announced its plan to launch a new, five times a week, service from Dubai to Santiago International Airport (SCL), via the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, starting on July 5, 2018.
Airports & Networks

Royal Jordanian and the General Union for Air Transport signed on January 29 a collective agreement giving RJ staff the choice to obtain a voluntary release from the job between the period Feb. 1 and March 31, 2018 subject to the airline’s approval.
Aerospace

Inflight broadband has the potential to unlock a $5.2 billion market within the Middle East region by 2035, finds new data released from the ‘Sky High Economics: Quantifying the commercial opportunities of passenger connectivity for the global airline industry’ report.
Emerging Technologies

Etihad Airways has joined a strategic partnership with Mercedes-Benz that will see its vehicles used for all the airline’s eligible premium customer transfers within the UAE.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Turkey's indigenous trainer Hurkus-B has successfully performed its first test flight at Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) facility.
Maintenance & Training

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has announced its engineering division Joramco appointed Abdelmalek Murad as the newly appointed Chief Operating Officer.
Maintenance & Training

Etihad Aviation Group (EAG) has launched a humanitarian aid mission in support of Rohingya refugee families. The campaign commenced with the distribution of garments, dry food packages, and blankets to more than 3,000 Rohingya families in Bahukhali Bazar in Bangladesh.
Aerospace

To celebrate the launch of Qatar Airways’ inaugural flight to Canberra, the capital city of Australia, Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, hosted a press conference today at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra.
Airports & Networks

Gulf Air has appointed of Captain Suhail Abdulhameed Abdulaziz Ismail as the airline’s new chief operating officer, effective February 2018.
Maintenance & Training

Emirates has made several management appointments within its outstation commercial operations team.
Maintenance & Training

The UAE Space Agency has announced a new satellite project called MeznSat, a 3U CubeSat which will study Earth’s atmosphere being developed in partnership with Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, part of the Khalifa Institute of Science and Technology, with the American University of Ras Al Khaima (AURAK).
Space

Qatar Airways will launch direct flights to Mykonos, Greece starting 30 May 2018.
Airports & Networks

The UAE Space Agency has signed a MOU with the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES).
Space

JORAMCO Academy and AACO Regional Training Center have signed a cooperation agreement to support the growing needs of the civil aviation industry in Jordan and the Middle East.
Maintenance & Training

Dubai Airports has completed the world’s first Tier III certified Modular Data Centre Complex (MDCC) at Dubai International (DXB) following a tour of the new facility by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Airports.
Airports & Networks

Etihad Cargo has successfully shipped a very special consignment of show jumping horses from Belgium to Hong Kong for the annual Hong Kong Longines Masters.
Aerospace

Franco Fenoglio, Head of Human Spaceflight & Transportation Unit at Thales Alenia Space, outlined today why effective communication with Mars is important to facilitate how human beings will live and work in space.
Aerospace

Emirates SkyCargo has transported KhalifaSat- the first satellite developed and built by Emirati engineers in the UAE at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC).
Space

Etihad Airways has honoured its high flying executive Andrew Fisher following his record-breaking feat of travelling around the globe in the fastest time and in the fewest number of flights.
Maintenance & Training

Oman Air has contributed to the reduction of the noise footprint of the UK’s Heathrow airport.
Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways has acquired the Sheraton Melbourne Hotel.
Aerospace

UAE's Dubai Airports has completed the installation of new and enhanced smart gates at Dubai International (DXB) Terminal 1.
Airports & Networks

Emirates and Arsenal Football Club, have announced a new sponsorship deal. The sponsorship, the largest ever signed by the club and one of the biggest ever agreed in football, grants the airline a 5-year extension to their shirt partnership with the Club until the end of the 2023-2024 season.
Air Transport

Sixty passengers and six crew members are believed to have perished when an Aseman Airlines' ATR 72-500 crashed into the Zagros range of mountains in the southern part of Iran this morning.
Air Transport

CTT SYSTEMS AB, providers of aircraft humidity control systems, has a launch customer order for a Cair VIP Inflight Humidification system from Jet Aviation for one Boeing BBJ MAX 8.
Air Transport