Middle East & North Africa

Al Bateen Executive Airport has signed a letter of intent with Switzerland-based Gategroup to provide high quality catering and aircraft provisioning services to business aircraft using Al Bateen Executive Airport.
Airports & Networks

Turkish Technic has signed an APS3200 APU repair services contract with and Thomas Cook Airlines to cover an APS3200 model APU repair to be carried out at Turkish Technic's APU shop in Istanbul, Turkey.
MRO

Antalya-based Turkish charter carrier Sky Airlines, is to start scheduled domestic flights within the next two weeks.
Airports & Networks

The Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC) – the specialist in Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) VIP cabin completion and associated services based in Toulouse, France – has delivered its sixth cabin to an undisclosed customer in the Middle-East, and confirms a growing backlog of Airbus Corporate Jet completions and the increase in its resources to match its growing services activity.
Interiors & Connectivity

German Air Ambulance Specialist FAI rent-a-jet AG and Medicare and Tourism Services, Travel Point LLC of Oman have signed a service agreement
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Commencing 1 January 2011,Qatar Airways will introduce its flagship Boeing 777 aircraft for the first time in Spain, operating on the daily non-stop Doha – Madrid route.
Airports & Networks

Gulf Air and Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA), the Kingdom's only approved aviation training provider in the region, have signed a comprehensive training agreement marking a major milestone in the cooperation between the two subsidiaries of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company.
Maintenance & Training

Honda Aircraft Company has successfully completed the first flight of its FAA-conforming HondaJet advanced light business jet. The event is a significant step in Honda's aerospace program leading to delivery of aircraft in 2012.
Business Aviation

Northrop Grumman's air traffic management subsidiary, Park Air Systems announced today that it had won the contract for the supply of communication, navigation and surveillance systems for Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali.
Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways has announced it will introduce a number of enhanced services at Doha International Airport within the new Doha Arrivals terminal which opened to passengers yesterday.
Airports & Networks

Airline procurement decision-makers are, for the first time, being hosted at next year's MRO Middle East, the third edition of the successful maintenance, repair and overhaul conference and exhibition, produced by F&E Aerospace and Aviation Week.
Aerospace

Etihad Airways has resumed operations to London following the phased opening of Heathrow airport which had closed as a result of freezing weather conditions.
Air Transport

Yassine Herraz, Maintenance Planning & Packaging Manager, at Royal Air Maroc has been awarded a bursary by aircraft spares support specialist A J Walter Aviation for the MSc Aircraft Maintenance Management degree course sponsored by the company and organised by City University, London.
Maintenance & Training

Boeing today announced that its production rate for the 777 program will increase to 8.3 airplanes per month in the first quarter 2013.
Air Transport

Etihad Airways has delayed all flights to London until further notice, due to the closure of Heathrow airport as a result of severe weather conditions. Other airlines are expected to follow
Air Transport

EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering has added aircraft types B757-200/300, B767-200/300, Airbus A330-200/30 powered by GE CF6 and Embraer E190/195 to its capability to serve EgyptAir fleet.
MRO

Middle Eastern customers of Dassault's Falcon jets can now get realistic feel of what their aircraft will look like inside following approval from the FAA for the use of 3D data for type design in the completions process of Falcon aircraft.
Interiors & Connectivity

Ethiopian Airlines teamed with Boeing and Seattle Anesthesia Outreach (SAO) for this week's 777-200LR (longer range) delivery to Ethiopian Airlines to transport much needed anesthesia equipment to Black Lion Hospital – Ethiopia's largest hospital.
Air Transport

British low cost carrier easyjet is to begin flights to Jordan.
Airports & Networks

Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) has unveiled details of its role as the world's first GE and Engine Alliance network partner providing an overhaul shop and test cell facility for the GEnx and GP7200 models.
MRO

Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) has produced its draft determination proposing to grant authorisation for an alliance between Etihad and Virgin Blue.
Air Transport

The first Hawker 800XPR upgrade continues to progress through key phases in its development program and is currently undergoing winglet installation at its facility in Chester, United Kingdom.
Business Aviation

The Global Space and Satellite Forum (GSSF) takes place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) on 9-11 May 2011. The conference will address issues ranging from life-saving developments in disaster management to the delivery of entertainment media via handheld consumer devices, bringing together senior industry figures and government officials.
Aerospace

Etihad Crystal Cargo has announced it has appointed CHAMP Cargosystems (CHAMP) as its global electronic Advance Cargo Information (ACI) filing partner.
MRO

flydubai has touched down in four new destinations in a fortnight, just days before it announced its 29th destination – Yanbu in Saudi Arabia.
Airports & Networks