Middle East & North Africa

Etihad Airways' Vice President Treasury, Ricky Thirion, has been named GT News Magazine's 'Corporate Treasurer of the Year' at a gala dinner ceremony in Amsterdam.
Maintenance & Training

Happy Design Studio, the French studio designing original and tailor-made liveries for aircraft, helicopters and yachts, has created Aviations most prestigious and sought after Trophies.
Aerospace

Royal Jordanian has reported third-quarter profits of JD19.6 million (before provision of JD6 million loss on sale of fixed asset), compared to JD25.5 million in the same period of 2009. Gross profits reached JD65.5 million, against JD73.3 million for the comparison period last year.
Air Transport

Eurocopter will mark its 30-plus year presence in the Middle East and Arabian Gulf region with a major participation at this week's Dubai Helishow 2010, underscoring its helicopter product line's capabilities for evolving applications that include anti-piracy, counter-insurgency and border patrol missions; corporate and VVIP transportation; emergency medical airlift; search & rescue; as well as the servicing of offshore oil/gas platforms.
Aerospace

Gama Aviation - which has an operation in Sharjah - has scooped the Baltic Air Charter Association's (BACA) Excellence Award for Best General Aviation Operator for the third consecutive year, making 2010 a hat trick for the prestigious title.
Business Aviation

The role of air forces in the Middle East is evolving as global demand increases for joint missions to provide humanitarian disaster relief, intensified peacekeeping efforts, and broadened border security and surveillance operations, a Boeing Company executive told the 2010 Air Power Conference in Doha yesterday.
Defense

Emirates announced a net profit of AED 3.4 billion (US$ 925 million), for the first six months of its current financial year ending 30th September 2010. This represents an outstanding 351.2 percent increase compared to AED 752 million (US$ 205 million), for the same period in 2009.
Aerospace

Jordan Aviation has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners (GSP) for a three-year Engine Management Program agreement.
MRO

The role of air forces in the Middle East is evolving as global demand increases for joint missions to provide humanitarian disaster relief, intensified peacekeeping efforts, and broadened border security and surveillance operations, a Boeing Company executive told the 2010 Air Power Conference in Doha yesterday
Defense

Qatar Airways is to launch a thrice weekly service between Stuttgart and Doha commencing on 9 March next year.
Airports & Networks

Aerospace and Defence Electronics Company.
Aerospace

The Arab aviation community has announced its support to colleagues in Yemen following the discovery of explosive devices on two aircraft, the Doha Aviation Summit heard today.
Air Transport

Eurocopter today signed an agreement for the supply of seven AS350 B3 Ecureuil helicopters to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture for crop spraying missions over vast fields of date palm trees – which provide a major source of agricultural revenue for the country.
Aerospace

Airlines, regulators and politicians must work together and with some urgency to avoid an airspace capacity crunch in the Middle East, the Doha Aviation Summit which opens today will be told today.
Aerospace

A glittering awards ceremony was held last night in Qatar as the Doha Aviation Summit started with the Leaders in Aviation awards.
Aerospace

Jeffrey Decker looks at the latest idea for an aviation extreme sport and finds no shortage of interest from Arab enthusiasts.
Aerospace

Forget "When Harry met Sally". This is Airline Meets Airport and Alan Peaford was in Vancouver to spot the perfect match.
Aerospace

The engine is the single most expensive element of an aircraft. Geoff Thomas looks at how ongoing costs can be contained.
Aerospace

Experts at the Californian Aircraft Interiors event in Long Beach say design has changed totally from two decades ago and predict travelers will see more radical changes in the next two as well.
Aerospace

Airlines from the region are setting the pace with their implementation of new in-flight entertainment (IFE) and connectivity technologies. Brendan Gallagher reports from the APEX/Aircraft Interiors show in Long Beach, California.
Aerospace

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) could soon be regularly monitoring pipelines and the first steps will happen in Africa or the Middle East. But, according to the American engineers who have developed the technology, it won't happen in their own back yard for some time to come.
Aerospace

INEGMA's Laura Dunn and non-resident scholar and research associate Ayat Toufeeq, look at the risk of unmanned aerial systems operating in our airspace.
Aerospace

Mubadala has achieved its goal of being a major force in aerospace. Alan Peaford met Homaid Al Shemarri, who heads the company's aerospace business, to find where it goes next.
Aerospace

Helishow Dubai will be attracting a lot of international support this year. One company making the trip is Arizona-based Timken whose aerospace aftermarket solutions business is upgrading and expanding its facilities at Mesa, near Phoenix, Arizona with the acquisition and conversion of a building next to its existing facilities.
Aerospace

The Middle East remains a focal point for future growth in the helicopter industry. The fourth Dubai Helishow from November 2-4 will provide a useful barometer of the sector's recovery from a difficult two years. Paul Derby reports.
Aerospace