Middle East & North Africa

Emirates will resume passenger services to Stockholm with weekly flights from August 1.

EDGE has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the remaining 40 per cent stake currently held by Lockheed Martin Corporation and Sikorsky, in Advanced Military Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Centre (AMMROC).

Emirates has announced that it will resume passenger services to Seychelles from 01 August, coinciding with the country's re-opening to international tourists.

The UAE has signed a support and maintenance agreement with Saab for the advanced airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) solution GlobalEye.

Iran has transferred the recorders of the shot-down 737-800 over Tehran in January to French accident analysis bureau BEA.

RwandAir has said it will resume services to Dubai on August 1 as part of its start-up operations following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emirates will cover medical expenses of up to EUR 150,000 and quarantine costs of EUR 100 per day for 14 days, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel, while they are away from home.

Qatar Airways Group has launched four international investment arbitrations against the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Unilode Aviation Solutions, an outsourced Unit Load Device (ULD) management and repair solutions company, and Dnata have signed an agreement to equip all Dnata warehouses with Unilode's Bluetooth readers.

RwandAir will resume commercial passenger services to Dubai from 1 August 2020.

Emirates has rolled out a brand new, state-of-the-art online gateway to serve its travel trade partners around the world.

Gulf Aviation Academy has received dual Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its new A320 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) for the joint different A320ceo and A320neo engines types as well as UPRT training capabilities.

Jazeera Airways will start operating a new service to the touristic destination of Trabzon in Turkey starting from August 3, with two return flights per week every Monday and Friday.

The Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has said it has suspended flights to and from Iran and Afghanistan due to coronavirus-related concerns.

Alpha Aviation Academy UAE, a pilot training provider, has launched PPC Validation, Licence Renewals and Airbus A320 Type-Rating.

Emirates has announced it will resume flights to Nairobi, Baghdad and Basra.

All travellers flying Etihad Airways from around the world to Abu Dhabi, and those transferring via Abu Dhabi onto other flights, will be required to show a negative COVID-19 PCR test result from a list of approved testing facilities from August 1.

Around 850 Royal Air Maroc (RAM) staff, including pilots, are facing redundancy as the airline continues to struggle during Covid-19 and look to a recovery plan.

Gulf Air will resume its direct flights to and from Kuwait with scheduled operations starting from 1 August 2020.

Qatar Airways has added the destination of Cebu; the second largest city in the Philippines, to its route network.

Turkey’s TAV Airports served 11.4 million passengers in the first half of 2020.

Emirates' First-Class travel experience was given double honours at the 2020 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice awards for Airlines.

Emirates is to resume passenger services to Clark in the Philippines.

Emirates is offering some pilots and cabin crews the option to take four months or less of unpaid leave between August and November while it recovers during the Covid-19 crises.

Emirates is to offer free Covid-19 insurance to its passengers as it tries to get people to feel comfortable to take to the skies again.