The US secure flight programme begins today, and although passengers onboard flights subjected to these checks can be sure that the cabin is safe from a shoe bomber or the like it is now obvious th...
The US-bound package discovered on a plane in Dubai contained explosives and an electrical circuit linked to a mobile phone SIM card, according to police reports. Dubai police said the bomb, discovere...
Kuwaiti premium airline Wataniya Airways has announced it enhanced in-flight entertainment for its Premium Economy and Business First guests travelling to Europe. digEcor has provided the news system ...
Analysts have predicted that investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) aviation sector could rise to more than $200 billion in the next decade. New aircraft on order totals $120 billion but a...
Graham Lake, director general of Canso (the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation) says over capacity can be avoided in the Middle East at a keynote address as the Doha Aviation Summit. “Yes, we ...
Mohammad Hout chairman of Middle East Airlines (MEA) has warned that the unrestrained and unregulated open sky policy in Lebanon could affect the profitability of the national carrier. Although Hout s...
African carriers have reported a 16% growth in passenger seat demand in September 2010 over the previous September. This is set against a 10.1% increase in capacity. As a result, Africa’s airline ind...
Chinese president Hu Jintao is visiting France next week to among other things, negotiate a deal to order dozens of Airbus aircraft. Rumours suggest the Airbus is poised to sell A320s, A330s and A350s...
The Bangladeshi Government has given Biman airline pilots until Saturday to end the strike or risk facing legal action. Flights in the country’s state-owned airline were grounded for a second day yest...
Low cost carrier Tiger Airways has mandated Standard Chartered to provide multi-million dollar financing for pre-delivery payments (PDP) of 14 new aircraft. "Standard Chartered Bank has been mandated ...
Singapore Airlines is planning to double the number of A380 aircraft flying between Sydney and Singapore. The move will add 140,000 seats a year on the route. The A380s will replace one of the daily B...
Chairman of Qantas Airways, Leigh Clifford, has told the airline's annual general meeting in Adelaide that he can't say when dividends will return because the airlines has US$17 billion of aircraft on...
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