Middle East & North Africa

AeroMobile, the airbourne mobile phone operator, has announced the appointment of Kevin Rogers as CEO.
Maintenance & Training

By Richard Maslen
United Arab Emirates (UAE) national carrier Etihad Airways has further deepened its already extensive operational and marketing partnership with
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
United Arab Emirates (UAE) national carrier Etihad Airways is to boost capacity on its daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne, Australia later
Airports & Networks

Iraqi Airways is to resume flights to the UK for the first time in 23 years.
Air Transport

Abu Dhabi Airports Company has announced that it has signed a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with Abu Dhabi Airport Customs to ensure the implementation of quality services at Abu Dhabi International Airport. The signing ceremony was held at Abu Dhabi Airports Company with senior executives from both entities.
Airports & Networks

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has welcomed the return to profitability of its equity partner, airberlin.
Air Transport

Etihad Airways is to expand significantly its reach across Africa after signing a strategic commercial partnership agreement with Kenya Airways, the national flag carrier of Kenya.
Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways' inaugural flight to the Kingdom of Cambodia touched down in the capital Phnom Penh today to further extend the airline's reach in Asia Pacific.
Airports & Networks

The new $1.7bn terminal at Muscat International Airport has passed the halfway stage, with the new runway, control tower and civil Aviation headquarters due to be complete by 2014, said Oman's Minister of transport and communications who paid a visit to the site this week.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier, FlyDubai is to launch flights to two further destinations in Pakistan as it continues its rapid network
Airports & Networks

A Yemeni fighter plane has crashed in a residential area of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killing several people, reports Reuters.
Defense

Turkish Airlines (THY) has launched a new Facebook application with famed Turkish Actress Songul Oden, offering five couples the chance to win return flights and a two night stay in the magical city of Istanbul.
Aerospace

Etihad Cargo has posted record monthly uplift figures for January of 32,613 tonnes, a 27 per cent increase on January 2012 (25,600 tonnes).
Air Transport

As part of the intention to grow and develop the Bahrain International Airshow members of the organising team from the Bahrain Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) and Farnborough International Ltd (FIL) will be attending IDEX, Abu Dhabi from 18 – 20 February 2013 to promote the Security and Surveillance Pavilion that has been newly introduced for the 2014 event.
Emerging Technologies

flydubai has announced operations to Juba, the capital city of the Republic of South Sudan. Commencing on 21 April 2013, flights will operate four times a week between Dubai Terminal 2 and Juba Airport.
Airports & Networks

Boeing and SecureTech will collaborate to jointly offer solutions that protect critical data and national infrastructure for customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the region through a cybersecurity agreement signed yesterday during the 2013 International Defence Exhibition Conference in Abu Dhabi.
Emerging Technologies

By Richard Maslen
United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier, Emirates Airline is to introduce a second destination in the Philippines as it seeks to keep track with growing
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Asian long-haul, low-cost carrier AirAsia X inaugurated flights between its Kuala Lumpur International Airport base and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on
Airports & Networks

Boeing and Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company (ADASI) have signed a teaming agreement for the two companies to address the growing Middle East market for unmanned systems.
Defense

Piaggio Aero Industries, together with Selex ES, today presented the Piaggio Aero P.1HH 'HammerHead' - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at IDEX 2013.
Defense

Mubadala Aerospace has signed an AED 4.9 million agreement with UAE University (UAEU) to train the next generation of Emirati technicians to work at Strata's aircraft composite production facility. The new initiative, with key modules delivered by professional trainers from Lockheed Martin, builds on the success of existing programs, which have already resulted in the employment of over 95 Emirati staff at Strata over the past two years.
Maintenance & Training

Gulf Air was honored among the top 50 organisations in the Middle East for its outstanding achievements in information technology for the second consecutive year at the 'CIO 50 Awards and Forum 2013' held in Dubai recently.
Aerospace

Performance worries over military and commercial helicopter operations in the harsh conditions of the Middle East deserts could be eased with a new distributorship deal signed today.
Aerospace

A global terror threat of missile attack against fixed wing aircraft or helicopters is being met head on by one exhibitor at IDEX – the defence and security event opening in Abu Dhabi today.
Business Aviation

The organising team from the Bahrain Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) and Farnborough International Ltd (FIL) are at IDEX 2013 to showcase the Security and Surveillance Pavilion that has been newly introduced for the 2014 Bahrain International Airshow.
Aerospace