Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) secretary general Abdul Wahab Teffaha has lashed the European Union's plans to reintroduce elements of its controversial Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Gulf Air has announced that it would be resuming its flights to Thiruvananthapuram in India with 5 weekly flights to Trivandrum International Airport starting on the 15th December.
The Arab Air Carriers Organization's Arab Aviation Summit for the Future, AACO 46th AGM, concluded in Doha today with the announcement of several key resolutions.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on governments to adopt and adhere to global standards that are necessary for the safe, efficient and sustainable operation of the global air transport system.
Air Arabia has announced that it has launched flights to Hofuf, making it the tenth destination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that the airline serves from its main base in Sharjah.
Boeing has said that production on the 737 programme will increase to 47 airplanes per month in 2017, the highest rate ever for the best-selling airliner in history.
The second day of World Travel Market 2013 (Tuesday 5 November) was well attended, with the WTM & UNWTO Ministers' Summit the highlight of an impressive line-up of events, seminars and presentations.
Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information has said the number of flights through Muscat International Airport rose 8.7% during the first six months of this year to 17,603, compared with 16,191 during the same period in 2012, Muscat Daily has reported.
Etihad Airways' first major sports sponsorship in the United States starts with the Nation's Triathlon event taking place in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. on September 8, 2013.
Turkish Airlines has announced additional flights from Riyadh and Jeddah in response to increased demand from the Kingdom to Istanbul for Eid holidays following the Holy month of Ramadan.
THK Gökçen Aviation has received the first five EC135s to provide medical airlift duties throughout Turkey. The helicopters will start operations in August.
Asian VIP aviation services provider, ASA Group, has expanded its operations, and opened offices in Indonesia and Malaysia thanks to support from the Middle East.
The deputy ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, officially inaugurated the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2013 today, in the presence of senior government officials, leaders of the regional and international travel industry as well as high-profile participants.
Salalah, Oman's southern capital, is seeing record tourism investment and visitor arrivals with IATA data showing a 25 per cent rise in air passenger arrivals in 2012, the country's minister of tourism said at the Arabian Travel Market today
Turkish Airlines is further strengthening its focus on the Middle East market, having recorded a whopping 49 percent growth in passenger traffic in the past two years, and almost 1 million additional passengers from the Middle East in 2012 compared to 2011.
