The International Air Transport Association (IATA) highlighted five priorities which must be addressed in order for aviation to deliver maximum economic and social benefits in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines' CCO Guliz Ozturk gave a keynote LCC interview on the first day of this year's Aviation Festival at London's Business Design Centre on 7 September 2017 revealing the company's strategies to transform travel in the region.
Boeing has named Phil Musser as the company's next senior vice president of communications, succeeding Tom Downey, who has announced plans to step down from the role late this month and retire from the company early next year.
Oman Air has signed an agreement with Takatuf Oman, the Human Capital solutions provider, to introduce a range of assessment solutions to Oman Air's dynamic talent management processes. This comes as part of the Company's continued drive towards enhancing talent management processes.
The business aviation industry in Morocco is looking forward to a boost from the MEBAA Show Morocco when it opens next week at the Marrakech Menara Airport on the 12 September.
Thales supports Morocco's ambition to progress in the aerospace sector and is inaugurating its industrial Competence Centre in Casablanca, specialising in metal additive manufacturing, also known as metal 3D printing.
Long-haul Low Cost Carriers are squeezing Emirates from East and West. With European and Asian challengers Dubai's hometown airline finds itself forced to rebuild itself to maintain its high load factors while meeting the price point challenges the upstarts present.Emirates intends to increase cooperation with flyDubai and potentially restructure its own economy class offering, delivering a low cost option that keeps travelers connecting in Dubai while also protecting yields.
Airbus booked 12 orders in August for the best-selling A320 Family of single-aisle jetliners, and delivered 46 aircraft during the month from across its in-production single-aisle and widebody product lines, including Saudi Arabia's Flyadeal.
Emirates President Tim Clark has said he hopes the Middle East's largest airline will restore capacity to the United States in six to nine months after some flights were dropped earlier this year, reports Reuters.
Emirates Flight Training Academy has taken delivery of its first two Cirrus SR22 G6 training aircraft in Dubai. These are the first of the 22 single-piston engine Cirrus aircraft that have been ordered by the Academy to train ab initio pilots.
Gulf Air today will increase its Moscow service from four weekly to daily flights with a new operating schedule that will come into effect in the last week of October, coinciding with the airline's three-year anniversary of direct, nonstop service to/from Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital.
Fourteen years after first taking to the skies, there appears to be no slowdown in demand for Air Arabia’s low-cost model across the Middle East and North Africa.
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has increased its amount of entertainment programmes available on-board its aircraft, offering 1800 hours of movies, television shows, games and music options.
Etihad Aviation Group has confirmed that it has terminated negotiations with TUI AG, in relation to a potential joint venture involving the leisure operations of Air Berlin Group and the German TUIfly company.
Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes brand and global leader in supply chain planning and optimisation (SCP&O), has been selected by Dubai Airports to plan and schedule its fixed resources at Dubai International and Dubai World Central.
The Royal Saudi Air Force has officially inducted the new Boeing F-15SA tactical fighter in a ceremony at the King Faisal Air Academy. Jon Lake reports.
Airbus' A350-1000 test aircraft MSN071 has completed fuel system and engine tests in Cardiff, Wales as part of its type certification flight test campaign.
The Etihad Aviation Group Board of Directors has appointed Ray Gammell as interim Group CEO, and confirmed that James Hogan, current President and Group CEO, will leave the company on 1 July 2017.
