Gulf Air today welcomed H.E. Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Gulf Air's Board of Directors for a tour of the airline's headquarters, met with leaders of the national carrier's unions, and hosted a media roundtable with representatives from the Kingdom's key publications.
Rockwell Collins has announced that STARS Airlines Tunisia has selected its ARINC AviNet Mail Enterprise Hub (eHub) as its cloud-based messaging delivery service.
Arik Air has reinforced its position as West and Central Africa's largest commercial carrier by expanding its reach to the Middle East, becoming the first Nigerian airline to offer a commercial service between Abuja, Nigeria and Dubai.
Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) received last week the prestigious award of “Best Airport for the Middle East region” from the Airports Council International (ACI) in an award ceremony in Seoul, South Korea during the council's annual general assembly.
JorAMCo will provide heavy maintenance services to the prestigious Indian carrier, Jet Airways, on four Airbus A330 of its fleet between May and July of this year.
Turkish Airlines has announced the appointment of Rafet Alper Ozen as General Manager of the global carrier's operations in Dubai and Northern Emirates.
Middle East carriers had the strongest year-over-year traffic growth in February at 13.4% as airlines continue to benefit from the strength of regional economies and solid growth in business-related premium travel, IATA said in its global traffic report today.
Mubadala Development Company, Tawazun Holding and Emirates Advanced Investments (EAI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) expressing their intent to explore the synergy opportunities that could be created by the unification of their defence services businesses.
Global technology company Sabre has officially launched in Turkey, where it will provide a wide range of technology solutions to travel agencies and travel suppliers including travel shopping and booking tools, data solutions, mobile solutions and travel apps.
In light of the high demand for traffic between Amman and Kuwait, Royal Jordanian will increase the frequency of its flights to the Kuwaiti capital, Kuwait, from 10 weekly flights to 14 (two daily flights) starting April 2014.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released January performance data which show a strong rise in air freight growth compared to a year ago, with the fastest growth recorded by Middle East carriers, at 10.7%.
Qatar Airways is set to participate in ITB Berlin 2014, the world's leading travel trade show for the sixth year in a row this coming week: the five-star airline is welcoming attendees of ITB Berlin to visit its newly redesigned booth from March 5-9, at Messe Berlin.
Qatar Airways is enhancing its operations to South Africa by increasing weekly frequencies to Johannesburg and by deploying new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from May 1.
Pegasus Airlines is continuing to expand its network, announcing today that it is introducing daily flights from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen to Frankfurt and Madrid from March 2014.
Emirates is set to expand its presence in Africa's most populous country Nigeria, with the start of a daily linked service to Abuja and Kano from 1 August 2014.
Oman Air has recognised the contribution to the airline's success that high-performing staff from its Flight Operations and Cabin Crew departments have made over the course of 2013.
Boeing has announced at the MRO Middle East conference that flydubai has signed an agreement to implement Boeing's suite of mobile maintenance applications.
Representatives from around 100 global airlines are set to attend this year's Aircraft Interiors Middle East (AIME) and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Middle East, opening Wednesday 5 February at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).
