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Strata Wins SABCA Contract for A350 Work Package
2012-01-17 Read More...
Strata Manufacturing (Strata), Mubadala Aerospace’s advanced composite aerostructures plant in Al Ain (UAE), has won a work package on the new Airbus A350 XWB; the first Airbus aircraft with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of

The Airbus-Boeing No-Win No-Loose Race
2011-12-28 Read More...
Airbus is on course to end 2011 with well over 1,600 orders, pushing Boeing to the lowest market share of their 40-year rivalry, but Boeing has stored up momentum for a comeback as both companies put fresh vigor into their most-sold

Air Arabia Takes Delivery of 8th A320
2011-12-27 Read More...
Air Arabia, the first and largest low cost carrier in the Mena region, has received the aircraft number 500 that Airbus has delivered this year, which is also the airline’s Air Arabia’s sixth aircraft of

Emirates Hopes to Place More A380 Orders
2011-12-20 Read More...
Emirates airline, the largest customer for the Airbus A380 superjumbo, is hoping to soon place more orders for the 525-seat aircraft made by EADS’s Airbus unit, the airline’s Chief Executive Officer told a German

Etihad Increases Stake in airberlin to 29.21%
2011-12-19 Read More...
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has agreed to increase its stake in airberlin, Europe’s sixth largest airline, to 29.21%, becoming airberlin’s largest single

Riyadh Airport To Triple In Size
2011-12-14 Read More...
Saudi Arabia plans to expand its capital's airport 3 fold in size within the next five years, a senior civil aviation official said, as passenger traffic rises

Etihad to Get 10 More Boeing Dreamliners
2011-12-13 Read More...
Etihad Airways announced plans to buy 10 more Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in a deal which will make it the largest operator of the aircraft type in the

Abu Dhabi to Host Global Aerospace Summit 2012
2011-12-12 Read More...
Abu Dhabi will host the Global Aerospace Summit due to take place on 16-19 April

Qatar’s Prime Minister Visits LIMA 2011
2011-12-08 Read More...
HE Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani visited The Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 2011; Langkawi, Malaysia; 6-10 December

Lufthansa Consulting Wins Iraq Airports Contract
2011-12-02 Read More...
Lufthansa Consulting, a leading aviation and management consulting company, has won a contract from the Iraqi government to evaluate the ground handling requirements at the country's major

Abu Dhabi Hosting Arab Air Carriers Meeting
2011-11-29 Read More...
UAE capital Abu Dhabi is hosting the 44th Annual General Meeting (44th AGM) of the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO), taking place this week (28-30 November

UAE & Canada Settle Aviation Row
2011-11-24 Read More...
Canada and the United Arab Emirates have put a row over aviation rights behind them, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird

Acceptance of the 1st T-346A Aircraft
2011-11-21 Read More...
The General Directorate of Air Armaments (DGAA) in Rome was the venue for the acceptance ceremony this past week for the T-346A, the first aircraft of the M-346 series, built by Alenia Aermacchi (a Finmeccanica

Qatar Airways & ALAFCO Select Pratt & Whitney PurePower® Engine
2011-11-18 Read More...
Qatar Airways has selected Pratt & Whitney PurePower® PW1100G-JM engines for its order of 50 firm A320neo family aircraft earlier this

Saab Launches New Family of Airborne Systems
2011-11-17 Read More...
Saab launched a new family of airborne systems at Dubai air show 2011 called AIRTRACER.

ALAFCO: Initial Firm Order for 50 Airbus A320neo
2011-11-17 Read More...
At the ongoing Dubai Airshow, ALAFCO, the Kuwait-based international Aviation Lease and Finance Company, has finalized a purchase order for 50 A320neo Family aircraft and took options for 30 more to be finalized by year

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