Forecast International has suggested that some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries may be susceptible to “over-buying for a certain kind of threat that is not readily apparent,” referring to Iran in its latest report on Middle East military spending.
Etihad Airways has appointed Geert Boven as senior vice president Americas. He will be based in New York and responsible for all Etihad's current operations in the US, Canada and South America.
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order for the purchase of ten Airbus A321s and three A330-200F freighter aircraft to meet their growth plans in the passenger and cargo markets. The airline has a further 27 aircraft on order with Airbus from contracts placed in 2009 and 2010.
Although Dubai Airshow is likely to be the biggest ever with space at the Airport Expo at an all-time premium, show organiser F&E Aerospace is donating exhibition space to the UN's World Food Programme (UNWFP) at this year's event.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today laid out an agenda for improving the competitiveness of the air cargo value chain, at the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Istanbul.
Mercator, the IT services business of Emirates Group, has helped Oman Air to make major changes to its cargo operations management systems, replacing a paper-based, manual system with a fully integrated and automated model.
Turkish Technic has signed an agreement for landing gear maintenance services for B737-800 aircraft with SunExpress for five years. The overhaul activities will be carried at Turkish Technic's Istanbul facilities.
Wataniya Airways in cooperation with the Egyptian Embassy in Kuwait and travel agents, has launched a tourism initiative called 'We Love Egypt' to encourage tourism to Egypt following the revolution on 25 January.
Dubai investment company Emivest is understood to be in high-level talks with the Chinese state-owned China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co (CAIGA)in a bid to sell off its SJ30 jet programme
Reuters reports that the opening of the passenger terminal at Dubai's new airport will be further delayed to 2012, but the chief executive of Dubai Airports said the emirate's air industry should benefit from unrest in the Arab world.
The impact on Boeing's sales from the cancellation last week by Etihad of four B787 dreamliners appears to have been mitigated by the firming up of an order for three B777-300s.
Pratt & Whitney Canada has delivered its first PT6C-67E production engine for the Eurocopter EC175 helicopter, the medium-size utility helicopter for multi-role civilian and parapublic applications, it was announced at HeliExpo, Orlando last night.
