Qatar private aviation company Rizon Jet is close to finishing its landmark MRO facility and VIP FBO operation at London's Biggin Hill airport – but chief executive Patrick Enz, said the growth could continue.
The price of insurance for the aerospace industry looks likely to decline in 2010, for the fourth year in a row, according to Aon's Aerospace Insurance Markets Outlook 2010 report released today
Cavotec Middle East, the UAE-based subsidiary of global engineering group Cavotec MSL announced at the Airport Show, Dubai, today that they have finally sealed the contract with Bahrain Airport Company for ground support at the international airport at Muharraq.
Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, has launched a weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Etihad Airways' first Emirati trainees from the Vocational Education Development Centre (VEDC) have successfully graduated from their work placement program at Etihad's airport office in Abu Dhabi.
Smart Aviation, the executive and air-ambulance operator in Cairo is to launch a new airline to capitalise on the potential growth of domestic and regional routes in Egypt.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has begun a series of extreme-weather tests at Valparaiso, Florida. A special hangar at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Elgin Air Force Base allows the airplane to experience heat as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) and as low as minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 43 Celsius).
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimated that the Icelandic volcano crisis cost airlines more than $1.7 billion in lost revenue through Tuesday—six days after the initial eruption. For a three-day period (17-19 April), when disruptions were greatest, lost revenues reached $400 million per day.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced today that Lufthansa will host the IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Berlin from 6-8 June 2010.
Following consultation with lawyers, global banks, insurance companies, and the UK based financial services authority, Securus Escrow Company Limited has launched a robust and secure escrow service tailored to the aviation market and one that will suit many Middle Eastern companies
Airbus said last night that it welcomes the united industry position on acceptable tolerance levels for flight operations in the current environment agreed last night.
Airbus Military has completed all the flight tests required for the daylight certification of the new generation hose-and drogue refuelling system on the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) which has been selected by both the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The Aircraft Registry of Aruba is celebrating Aruba's accession to the ICAO Cape Town Convention making it the first of the civil aviation offshore aircraft registration jurisdiction to have done so.
Gulf Air is operating as many as ten extra flights to transport its passengers, who have been stranded in other airports due to the closure of European airspace caused by the Icelandic volcano ash cloud.
The FAA has granted Boeing expanded type inspection authorization (TIA) today, clearing the way for its personnel to fully participate in future test flights and for the collection of required flight-test data.
INEGMA Chief Executive Riad Kahwaji, and director Theodore Karasik, Director, R&D, warn that the lessons from the Icelandic volcano chaos must be learned by Gulf States for the future
Airlines are more concerned with generating revenue from additional products and services than any other sector, according to new research carried out by incremental revenue specialists Collinson Latitude.
Geert Boven, Etihad's executive vice president customer services and airport operations, has been appointed managing director and a member of the board of Amadeus Gulf, a joint venture global distribution company owned by Etihad Airways and Amadeus International.
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) today released traffic figures for the first quarter of 2010 with a strong 13.8% passenger increase in passenger traffic over the same period last year.
