Middle East & North Africa

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has won first prize in the airlines category at the 7th annual Pan Arab Web Awards, one of the top awards programmes for digital developments in the region.
Aerospace

Iraq's Air Force has followed on a contract with Hawker Beechcraft through the American Air Force Security Assistance Training command to support the force's fleet of King Air 250ER aircraft.
MRO

Air transport industry IT specialist integrated communications service provider for businesses, have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure for the aviation industry. .
Emerging Technologies

Qatar Airways today unveiled its newest global television campaign promoting the airline's expanding network of over 100 destinations worldwide and its award-winning cabin crew.
Air Transport

Kuwait leasing company ALAFCO signed an agreement for 30 Airbus A320neo aircraft at the Paris Air Show this afternoon just hours after an earlier order for six A350s.
Air Transport

Emirates Airline has unveiled plans for the construction of the most technologically-advanced engine overhaul shop.
MRO

Since Business Travel Market in London began in 2009, Qatar Airways has been Platinum Sponsors of the event, and the airline will make its presence felt when sponsoring a VIP Hosted Buyers Lounge and the event's Media Lounge today and tomorrow.
Aerospace

Jazeera Airways and Lufthansa Technik AG have extended their existing 10 year Total Engine Support TES® contract from 2006 for a further two years. The agreement comprises 13 CFM56-5B engines of the six Airbus A320 airplanes of Jazeera Airway's fleet.
MRO

Boeing is to conduct a trade summit in Casablanca later this year in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies.
Aerospace

A Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout has gone down in Libya, according to NATO.
Defense

ALAFCO - the Kuwait-based international Aviation Lease and Finance Company - has signed an agreement for six more Airbus A350 XWB aircraft. This repeat order brings ALAFCO's total order for the A350-900 to 18 aircraft. The deal was signed at the 49th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget.
Air Transport

Flydubai has signed a contract with GE Aviation for the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of 109 engines over the next 10 years.
MRO

Emirates Airline has unveiled plans for the construction of the most technologically advanced engine overhaul shop in Asia.
Air Transport

Gulf Air, announced a major deal to step up its on board connectivity and IFE offer to its passengers today with the announcement that it has selected Panasonic's global communications suite for worldwide in-flight broadband connectivity, mobile phone service and live television programming.
Air Transport

Qatar Airways has been named 'Airline of the Year' at the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards 2011, held earlier today at the Paris Air Show.
Aerospace

Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has signed two contracts with Selex Galileo to include delivery of SELEX Galileo's PicoSAR and cutting edge ESCAN radar technologies for joint research, development and demonstration purposes, and a series of training and industrial participation modules centred around SELEX Galileo's world renowned radar expertise.
Emerging Technologies

Saudi Arabian National Air Services, the owner of value airline Nasair, confirmed at the Paris Airshow that it has selected CFM International's CFM56-5B engine to power 20 firm Airbus A320 family aircraft.
Aerospace

Swiss-based VistaJet which has operations in the Middle East has placed a firm order with Bombardier for 10 Global 8000 aircraft. The total value of the order is approximately $650 million
Business Aviation

In a special ceremony at its headquarters in Wichita today, Hawker Beechcraft celebrated the delivery of the 700th Beechcraft T-6.
Defense

Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) has confirmed with the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) organisers that it will take part in the second BIAS in January 2012, following its highly successful participation at the inaugural event last year.
Maintenance & Training

Oman Air has joined with Audi to provide a fleet of chauffeur-driven Audi A8s that will whisk passengers from Oman Air's new First Class airport lounge to their aircraft in unparalleled comfort and style.
Air Transport

Gulf Air is the launch customer of the latest IAE engine, the V2500 SelectTwo for six A321 aircraft it ordered at the Paris Air Show.
Air Transport

A new supersonic business jet that could cut the flight time from Dubai to New York to just over three hours was launched as a concept at the Paris Airshow today.
Business Aviation

Bahraini communications company Batelco came to the Paris airshow to sign its sponsorship deal for the Bahrain International Airshow which will take place at the Sakhir Airbase from January 19th to 21st, 2012.
Aerospace

Saudi Arabian Airlines has placed a firm order for four additional A330-300 aircraft at the Paris Air Show today. The order adds to eight ordered in July 2008, taking the total order for the type to 12.
Air Transport