The health of the Middle East's air travel industry and the sustained performance of commercial aircraft assets continue to create good investment opportunities, according to speakers at a week-long Boeing regional airline planning conference for financiers.
Changes to the design of the lavatory and galley areas on Airbus A320 aircraft could free the way for more revenue seats according to manufacturer Airbus
OnAir's combined GSM and inflight Internet services have proven after a successful first year of operation that SwiftBroadband provides more than enough capacity to meet passenger needs according to the company at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg today.
World Airways - a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings - has reached an agreement with Emirates SkyCargo to operate one Boeing 747-400 freighter on a full-time basis beginning in April 2011.
Aveos announced yesterday that it has signed a one-year Engine Technical Service Agreement with Saudi Arabian MRO, Alsalam Aircraft Company. Under the agreement, Aveos is to repair, overhaul and deliver up to eight JT9D-7A engine events within 2011.
Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines today announced during the annual MRO Africa event an agreement for the Ethiopian flag carrier to participate in the 777 Component Services Program (CSP).
General Dynamics chairman and chief executiv Jay Johnson today issued a statement regarding Saturday's crash of a Gulfstream G650 test aircraft. Gulfstream is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.
An Egyptian news agency intervened after receiving an alert of a bomb threat on a British passenger plane bound for the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, this afternoon.
Flydubai announced yesterday that it is investing $20 million (Dh73 million) in developing in-house aircraft maintenance capabilities for its growing fleet of 16 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft.
Lithium batteries onboard a UPS plane that crashed in Dubai last year should have been declared hazardous cargo, according to a preliminary report released by the UAE's civil aviation authority.
NATS has become the first air traffic service provider to be certified against PAS 55, the international Asset Management standard, for its en-route operations.
Oman Air and bmi have announced a codeshare agreement that will allow Oman Air's customers to book flights from Oman's capital of Muscat to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Belfast or Manchester, via London Heathrow. bmi's customers will be able to book flights from any of the airline's UK departure points through to Muscat.
The Director of the Iranian Space Agency Hamid Fazeli announced yesterday that Iran will design and build a remote sensing satellite in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO).
Authentic spares for Russian helicopters MI 8/MI-17 will now be easily available in the Middle East after Aviahelp Asia announced today it is opening a sales office and warehouse in Sharjah, UAE.
Residents in the Al Ula region of Saudi Arabia are already campaigning to the new chief of the country's civil aviation authority GACA to get up to speed with their local airport project.
Commercial opportunities along with military and humanitarian demands driving the need for sustainable space and satellite programmes across the Middle East will be in focus at the Global Space and Satellite Forum (GSSF) 2011.
ALAFCO, the Kuwaiti aviation lease & finance company is calling on Wataniya Airways principals to pay back about $70 million for the remaining period of an aircraft leasing deal.
A new private aviation terminal is to be built at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority GACA is calling for companies to bid to develop and operate the new facility.
Qatar Airways has taken delivery of its 25th Boeing 777. The airplane is a 777-300ER (extended range) model, which can carry up to 335 passengers in a two-class configuration up to 7,930 nautical miles (14,685 km)
Gulfstream Aerospace confirmed today that a Gulfstream G650 crashed Saturday morning during takeoff-performance tests in Roswell, in New Mexico, USA. Two Gulfstream pilots and two Gulfstream flight-test engineers died in the crash.
