Emirates has announced that Frankfurt will be the next destination slated for its flagship A380 aircraft. The daily A380 service will start on September 1.
Abu Dhabi Airports and Fujairah Airport today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to develop an airport development master plan that will ensure the delivery of an efficient and adequate expansion program for Fujairah International Airport.
Whilst providing an update on the newly opened Hamad International Airport (HIA) and Qatar Airways' expansion plans, on the opening day of Arabian Travel Market (ATM) at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre (5-8 May), the airline's CEO HE Akbar Al Baker revealed the airline will receive the first of its 13 Airbus A380-800s early next month.
Dubai Aerospace (DAE) subsidiary, StandardAero has expanded its component repair business to create a new 30,000 square foot composite processing and repair centre which the company said will meet the growing market demands for the development of new composite repairs for aircraft and ground-based engine hardware and aircraft structures within its MRO facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline’s first Airbus A380 will operate commercially to London Heathrow from December 2014, while its first Boeing 787-9s will debut on routes to Düsseldorf from December this year and then to Washington DC and Mumbai from January 2015.
On the first day of ITB Berlin, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker and the airline's new country manager for Germany and Austria, Günter Saurwein, introduced the airline's new luxury First Class seats that will form part of the tri-class configuration on the airline's new A380-800.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for January showing a strong increase in demand with the Middle East posting the strongest growth of any region.
Boeing's Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) demonstrator recently completed its first flight to verify airworthiness, an important milestone toward providing a low-risk and cost-effective maritime surveillance solution designed for search and rescue, anti-piracy patrols and coastal and border security.
Within the next decade $75 billion of new civil turbine helicopters are expected to be delivered globally and in this year alone, the number of players investing in the industry is expected increase, according to aviation advisory service Ascend.
Cobham has been awarded a 30 month contract by BAE Systems to provide air support to operational readiness training for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
In 2013, Pegasus Airlines increased its sales revenue by 25% Year-on-Year (YoY) to 2.4 billion Turkish Lira and its gross profit to over 450 million Turkish Lira translating to an increase of 41% YoY.
Germany's Lufthansa Technik said at the MRO Middle East show in Dubai today that it has signed a long-term agreement with UTC Aerospace to supply MRO services for its products, sensors and integrated systems on the Boeing 787 aircraft.
Jordanian MRO specialist, JorAMCo has been given licence to offer the AirVault Mx records management solution which stores and manages customers' growing aircraft maintenance records.
A new aircraft in the Airbus Toulouse hangar is being prepared to enter a test flight programme - much to the delight of Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker
The number of passengers using inflight connectivity on Oman Air's OnAir-equipped Airbus A330s has increased dramatically in the past year, as has the volume of data exchanged. The airline has seven A330s fitted with both Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir.
Senior defence personnel from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the GCC Secretariat, as well as from international partners such as the United States, France, Sweden, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, and NATO are set to make the 4th edition of Middle East Missile and Air Defense Symposium (MEMAD 2014) a major success
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) maintenance chief, Abdulrahman Altayeb, has called on Gulf carriers to support a call for more appropriate MRO services.
An A350 XWB flight test aircraft (MSN3) has made its premiere appearance at Doha's new Hamad international airport, on its way to the Singapore Airshow.
Today the first assembled steel arch of the Midfield Terminal Building (MTB) was installed at Abu Dhabi Airports, marking the launch of the roof structure sequence for the mega project which will change the skyline of Abu Dhabi as the future gateway continues to rise above the ground.
