Al-Salam Aircraft Company has announced plans to transform its training centre into a business-oriented academy to train Saudi nationals in aircraft mechanics. "Currently we are producing about 50 hig...
Vladimir Obyedkov, the CEO of Russia's S7 Airlines, has stated the airline will buy up to eight Boeing and Airbus medium-haul aircraft in 2011, if the shareholders permit it. The 737-800 aircraft are ...
Kenya Airways has welcomed the appointment of a conciliator to facilitate talks between Kenya Airways management and the Aviation &Allied Workers Union (AAWU) Kenya. Alice Tabu, chief industrial relat...
Emirates has hit back at criticism of gulf airlines as having an unfair advantage – the most recent coming from the CEO of Air France, Henri Gourgeon. Gourgeon has claimed that Gulf carriers are unfai...
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps stated that the man who tried to hijack an Iran Air passenger plane en route to Syria on Friday night had connections with counter-revolutionary groups. The man cla...
According to reports from Kinshasa, the transport ministry of the Democratic Republic of Congo was awarded a new turnkey project last week to install a new air traffic control and management system ac...
Africa is home to 12% of the world’s people, but it accounts for less than 1% of the global air service market. Part of the reason for Africa’s under-served status, according to a just-published World...
Qatar Airways has announced plans to expand flights to Germany with the introduction of scheduled services to Stuttgart and greater capacity to Munich next year. Stuttgart will be served three-times-a...
The United Arab Emirates has expressed its disappointment of Canada’s refusal to grant additional landing rights to UAE carriers. UAE’s ambassador to Canada, Mohammed Abdullah al-Ghafli commentated to...
The management of Ethiopian Airlines has finalized the preparation of a bid document for the construction of a new maintenance hangar planned to be built at its hub at the Addis Ababa Bole Internation...
Ethiopian has leased one of its new Bombardier Q400 aircraft to ASKY Airlines, a new private airline established in Togo. ASKY launched services earlier this year with two leased Boeing 737 aircraft a...
Sahaab Aircraft Leasing, subsidiary of Jazeera Airways Group, has placed an order for four A320s aircraft on long-term leases with California-based Virgin America. The contract is valued at $155 milli...
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