Middle East & North Africa

Etihad Airways commenced operations to Japan today with the launch of its Nagoya-Abu Dhabi service.
Airports & Networks

Advanced Electronics Company (AEC)of Saudi Arabia and US firm Rockwell Collins today agreed to co-develop and market products and solutions to customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

SAS Scandinavian Airlines, the largest airline in Northern Europe and the national carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which offers a Dubai-Copenhagen service three times a week during the winter is offering a special deal of AED 3350 (plus taxes and fees) in its premium economy class, Economy Extra, to European destinations.
Airports & Networks

Aleem Shaikh of UK aircraft equipment specialist Aerolux would be very happy if one of the products he represents was never, ever used in anger. It's the ELTA ADT-406 emergency locator transmitter (ELT) – a satellite homing beacon designed to alert rescue forces in the event of a forced landing.
Interiors & Connectivity

Abu Dhabi International Airport joined Jordan's QAIA and Dubai as being among the few aviation hubs in the world to have achieved a healthy growth in 2009. Figures released today show it has considerably outperformed the global average of minus 3.0% with a growth of 7.3% and achieving 9.7 million passengers for the year
Airports & Networks

Airbus has undertaken cold-weather testing of its A330-200 freighter – the launch customer of which is Etihad Airways.
Air Transport

Airbus has increased the list price of all its aircraft by an average of 5.8 per cent. The price increase is the first since January 2008, and applies for all new aircraft from the beginning of January 2010
Air Transport

Aerion is evaluating preliminary results of a new global market survey indicating strong appeal of the Aerion supersonic design. The study is the first by the company in five years and was undertaken as part of its ongoing dialogue with potential OEM partners.
Business Aviation

Jordan's main gateway, Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) has announced growth in traffic levels over the past year.
Airports & Networks

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation, will officially open the second edition of the successful maintenance, repair and overhaul conference and exhibition, MRO Middle East, presented jointly by F&E Aerospace and Aviation Week magazine.
MRO

Pilots from Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have graduated from Horizon International Flight Academy in Al Ain, following the successful completion of a year-long Commercial Pilot License (CPL) flight training helicopter course
Aerospace

The green shoots of aviation recovery have started to emerge and many airlines are looking forward to getting back to growth – albeit it cautiously and on a more gradual scale than the growth recorded after previous recessionary periods.
Interiors & Connectivity

The privatisation of Kuwait Airways is to go ahead.
Air Transport

AMAC Aerospace has rolled out of its first Airbus 320 to a Head of the State in the Middle East.
Interiors & Connectivity

Italian manufacturer Tecnam has launched a dealership to cover the whole of North Africa for its range of single and twin light aircraft.
Aerospace

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Middle Eastern carriers generated the fastest growth in passenger traffic at the end of the year with a 19.1% increase in December (and 11.2% growth for the entire year). These gains result from Middle Eastern carriers taking a larger share of long-haul connecting traffic over their hubs.
Air Transport

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has signed a collaboration agreement with Finmeccanica's Selex Galileo.
Emerging Technologies

CANSO, the Global Voice of air traffic management (ATM), today announced its 'Middle East Declaration', a statement committing the members of its Middle East Office and other aviation stakeholders in the region to work together to improve ATM across the Middle East.
Airports & Networks

CAE today announced that CAE Flightscape has been awarded a contract to deliver a comprehensive flight recorder playback and analysis laboratory for Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA).
Emerging Technologies

SELEX Communications,part of the Finnmeccanica Group,and Sirio Panel - has been awarded two contracts worth a total of 5.6 millions Euro by Pilatus Aircraft for the supply of communication and identification avionic systems and of cockpit panels
Defense

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) today confirmed its participation in the Aeroexpo Marrakech which starts tomorrow at Menara Airport in Morocco and runs until Saturday.
Aerospace

As reported in Arabian Aerospace in September, the city of Abu Dhabi is to host the World Route Development Forum in 2012.
Airports & Networks

BEIRUT: The search is continuing for bodies as aircraft seats, suitcases and children's shoes wash up on the beach outside the Lebanese capital.
Air Transport

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says that authorities have initially ruled out terrorism or sabotage as the cause of the crash of an Ethiopian jet into the sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut early this morning
Air Transport

What started as a child's fascination with birds and flight has become a major theme for 'Art of Flight' creator David Bent. He spoke to Chuck Grieve about the inspiration and perseverance behind his successful collections.
Maintenance & Training