Middle East & North Africa

MENA Aerospace is to participate in this year's Dubai Airshow, marking the second time the company has taken part in the prestigious event.
Aerospace

Air Mauritius has signed up to an efficiency service solution from Rolls-Royce, extending their existing fuel management partnership.
Air Transport

Qatar Airways has designed and implemented a next generation cargo management system named CROAMIS to manage its end-to-end airline cargo business processes.
Air Transport

Morocco's Office National Des Aéroports (ONDA) and Director General D'Aviation Civile (DGAC) are working jointly on plans to develop Ben Slimane Airport (GMMB/GMD) into the country's main dedicated business aviation hub. This will include a new FBO – while an invitation has also been issued for FBOs at six of the country's main airports.
Airports & Networks

Emirates has expanded the network of destinations served by its highly-popular A380 aircraft with the launch of the first A380 service into Dusseldorf, Germany. The airline also celebrated its five-year anniversary in Prague with a special one-off A380 service.
Airports & Networks

Turkey's Redstar Aviation is introducing a Learjet 45, to its medevac fleet.
Business Aviation

Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have signed a new collaboration agreement supporting the more effective implementation of Language Proficiency Requirements.
Maintenance & Training

Etihad Airways has increased its service between Abu Dhabi and Seychelles from four flights per week to daily to give guests more choice and greater flexibility when travelling to and from Seychelles.
Airports & Networks

Bell Helicopter has announced the successful first flight of the Bell 525 Relentless. The maiden flight of the super-medium helicopter took place at the company's aircraft assembly centre in Amarillo, Texas.
Aerospace

Air Arabia has named Faisalabad as the latest city to join its rapidly growing Pakistan route network.
Airports & Networks

Two people who'd fallen in love after meeting on a Turkish Airlines flight returned, exactly one year later, to take their romance to another level.
Aerospace

Etihad Airways has appointed Yarub Mohamed Obaidalla as its new general manager for Oman.
Maintenance & Training

Dassault's newest Falcon was rolled out at Merignac, Bordeaux today with hundreds of special guests from around the world, there to witness the historic occasion, writes Alan Peaford.
Business Aviation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has announced the expansion of its Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) suite of documents aimed at managing aviation risk for contracted aircraft operations.
Aerospace

Chief Operations Officer at Abu Dhabi Airports, Ahmad Al Haddabi, has issued a statement regarding the sand storm in Abu Dhabi today.
Airports & Networks

The Chairman of the UAE Space Agency board Dr. Khalifa Mohammed Al Rumaithi, and the agency's Director General Dr. Mohammad Nasser Al Ahbabi met with a number of ambassadors and representatives from friendly nations to the UAE with advanced space programmes.
Space

Oman Air's shareholders have received positive financial results for 2014 at the airline's Annual General Meeting (AGM), held on Saturday March 28 at Oman Air's headquarters in Muscat.
Air Transport

Etihad Airways has welcomed the decision of Switzerland's Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) to approve the airline's 33.3 per cent investment in the Swiss regional carrier Darwin Airline.
Air Transport

Emirates has invested more than US$ 6 million in the installation and service of its medical equipment on board, and thousands of hours in training each year, to ensure its crew is able to act effectively in the event of medical emergencies on board.
Air Transport

Boultif Mohamed Salah, the CEO of Algeria's flag-carrier airline Air Algérie presented its new cabin to the media in Toulouse today.
Interiors & Connectivity

The Italian air force has now confirmed it will be the launch customer for the Mubadala subsidiary, Piaggio Aerospace's P.1HH HammerHead unmanned system.
Defense

Emirates is to launch a new daily service to the island of Bali in Indonesia, from 3rd June 2015.
Airports & Networks

A launch described as the vital key to faster broadband on aircraft took place yesterday as Inmarsat saw the successful launch of its second Global Xpress (GX) satellite (Inmarsat-5 F2) on board an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton Breeze M rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and that expression could not ring truer for mother and son, Sue Abdul and Karim Hollosi, who have both served as Emirates cabin crew, two decades apart.
Maintenance & Training

Gulf Air has marked the successful insourcing and completion of a C1 Check on its Airbus 321, ahead of schedule. Carried out by the airline's engineers and technicians this achievement reinforces Gulf Air's technical capabilities – delivering Gulf Air's first insourced C1 Check in 25 years.
MRO