Middle East & North Africa

Gulf Air will resume its flights to and from Baghdad International Airport commencing with its Saturday 07th February flight following a temporary suspension that was effective from 26th January 2015.
Airports & Networks

Etihad Airways has seen a dramatic surge in Internet and mobile phone usage in 2014.
Emerging Technologies

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group, has honoured 51 employees for their commitment to excellence, exceptional levels of dedication and exemplary performance and service to the company's customers and to their colleagues.
Aerospace

Military and industry leaders from the global space and defence industries will come together in Abu Dhabi this month at the 4th Milsatcom Middle East Conference, to discuss the key issues affecting national space strategy, security and infrastructure at the inaugural Middle East Military Space Symposium.
Space

International engineering group Egis has been awarded the design consultancy contract for the King Khaled development project by general contractor Almabani.
Airports & Networks

Air Arabia has reignited its plans for a hub in Jordan that were shelved more than three years ago following Arab Spring.
Air Transport

Oman Air has launched an efficiency programme, entitled Shape and Size, with the aim of achieving substantial reductions in the airline's expenditure. The move is timed to coincide with the start of 2015 and the onset of new budgets for the year.
Aerospace

Royal Air Maroc celebrated the new year with the arrival into Morocco of its first 787 Dreamliner. The airline will be the first carrier in the Mediterranean region to operate the 787.
Air Transport

Middle East low-cost carriers are soaring higher than traditional airlines according to new research looking at online habits of travel consumers.
Airports & Networks

Etihad Airways teams in Abu Dhabi and across its global network are continuing to work around the clock to restore the airline's flight schedule to normal following Saturday's severe fog disruption which had a major impact upon operations into and out of its hub.
Air Transport

MNG Jet has been approved for line maintenance on Boeing Business Jets (BBJ).
Business Aviation

Boeing and Royal Air Maroc has celebrated the arrival into Morocco of its first 787 Dreamliner. The airline will be the first carrier in the Mediterranean region to operate the 787.
Air Transport

By Poppy Marello
Low-cost carrier, flydubai has further strengthened its links to Russia, adding Novosibirsk and Nizhniy Novgorod to its comprehensive network in the region.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Every month Routesonline provides an update on the current schedules of five latest aircraft programmes, highlighting the routes the types are being deployed upon.
Airports & Networks

Delegates to the Aviation Africa 2015 Summit and exhibition taking place 10-11 May in Dubai, could have the time of their lives thanks to a new sponsorship deal.
Aerospace

Sabre Corporation has appointed Dino Gelmetti as vice president of Airline Solutions, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Emerging Technologies

By Richard Maslen
The new venture will complement the existing operations into Jordan with the introduction of regular scheduled flights to Kuwait from May 18, 2015 with services to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia following from May 19, 2015; Erbil, Iraq from May 20, 2015 and Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt from May 21, 2015 and more destinations are due to be added later in 2015.
Airports & Networks

In the first quarter of 2015, MTU Aero Engines AG increased its revenues by 20% to €1.099,5 billion (1-3/14: €913.0 million).
MRO

By Richard Maslen
Central and Eastern European low-cost airline specialist, Wizz Air, will slightly modify its existing model by introducing a second aircraft type to its fleet later this year. While maintaining the one fleet family concept, the budget carrier has switched 26 of its outstanding orders for the A320, for the larger A321 variant and will place the first aircraft into service in the last quarter of this year.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The rise of the Gulf Carriers has become a major talking point in the aviation industry, with many arguments that the big three have an unfair advantage on the European market.
Airports & Networks

EgyptAir Hospital has signed a cooperation protocol with EgyptAir Tourism (Karnak) & Duty Free and EgyptAir Airlines to activate medical tourism.
Air Transport

The Boeing Company reported first-quarter revenue increased 8 percent to $22.1 billion on higher commercial deliveries.
Air Transport

By Richard Maslen
The US departments have said the allegations from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines through its ‘Partnership for Open and Fair Skies’ coalition of around $42 billion in unfair state subsidies to Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways deserves a public hearing, so arguments from both sides will be collected in a public forum, on a regulatory website.
Airports & Networks

Honeywell Aerospace has released version 1 of a new online weather service that will provide pilots with continuously updated, in-flight weather information.
Emerging Technologies

By Richard Maslen
The arrival of the second A380 on the Doha- London route from July 1, 2015 reinforces Qatar Airways’ presence in the United Kingdom, with six flights a day between the two cities in addition to daily direct services from Doha to Edinburgh from May and double daily services to Manchester. The three-class aircraft will be operated on the ‘QR001/002’ flight.
Airports & Networks