Middle East & North Africa

Oman Air has reintroduced its signature Iftar boxes n celebration of the holy month of Ramadan on select flights to and from the Gulf region.

Qatar Airways and Monacair have formed a new partnership commencing 4 July.

Emirates has made three key management movements within its commercial and cargo operations team in the Middle East.

EgyptAir and Kenya Airways have launched a new code-share partnership.

AJW Technique has signed a component MRO contract with Tunisair Technics for the support of its mixed Airbus and Boeing fleet.

The AAR Corporation may prefer to stay clear of the limelight but, as Alan Warnes found our, it certainly knows what it's doing.

Royal Jordanian shareholders have been told that the airline achieved a small operating profit in 2016 while registering an overall net loss as the Amman carrier reported concerns over competition from low cost and legacy carriers as well as currency devaluation in major markets.

14 years after the final flight of the iconic Concorde, Boom is working to bring supersonic travel back to commercial networks. We spoke to founder and CEO Blake Scholl to hear what impact he believes his business’ aircraft can have on global route development.

For a consecutive year, more than a third of airline industry profits in 2016 are expected to come from the carriers of North America, says ICAO. Last year the

Upgrading the aircraft type to the double-decker A380 on its daily non-stop service connecting Dubai and Auckland was one of the key reasons for a successful first year on the route, the world's longest A380 flight, said Emirates.

Etihad Airways and EgyptAir have announced a new codeshare partnership to be introduced in phases from 1 March 2017.

Jazeera Airways recently announced the launch of its Graduate Development Program (GDP), aimed at growing the Kuwaiti talent in the aviation industry.

Nile Air has become the first private Egyptian airline to launch domestic services to the Ancient Egyptian cities of Thebes Luxor and Aswan.

Public interest worldwide in the global space industry is undergoing a resurgence thanks to social media, plans for human space travel, asteroid mining and competitively-friendly banter between new sector actors, according to a leading advocate of advancing humanity through the peaceful use of space.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs) grew by 3.8% in 2016 compared to 2015. This was nearly double the industry's average growth rate of 2.0% over the last five years. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), increased by 5.3% in 2016.

Etihad Aviation Group and Lufthansa German Airlines have unveiled details of a new commercial partnership.

TPConnects – the first dual International Air Transport Association (IATA) New Distribution Capability (NDC) Certified Travel Technology Provider has unveiled that it will be launching ihlah.com – Middle East and Africa's first Travel Search Engine, by the second quarter of 2017.

Flydubai has announced its full-year results for 2016 reporting a profit of AED 31.6 million (USD 8.6 million).

Saudi Arabian carrier, Flynas, faces increasing competition in the kingdom as three new rivals take to the skies. Alan Dron reports.

An Iranian passenger plane was forced to return to Tehran's Mehrabad airport after one of its two engines failed,

EgyptAir has reduced its intended fleet renewal and expansion plans given Egypt's continued weak economic outlook, reports ch-aviation.

Libya's Buraq Air has wet-leased a B737-500 from fellow Libyan operator, Air Libya, reports ch-aviation.

Afriqiyah Airways has withdrawn one of its three A319-100s from active duty after it was randomly shot at while on the ground at Tripoli Mitiga last week, reports ch-aviation.

Boeing this week delivered the 500th 787 Dreamliner, a 787-8 to Avianca.

CFM International's advanced LEAP-1C integrated propulsion system has been awarded Type Certificates by both the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), paving the way for entry into commercial service on the COMAC C919 aircraft.