Students at the Masdar Institute are helping the country’s oil and gas sector tap the fuel potential of Abu Dhabi’s mangroves. Mohamed Rashid Al Ghailani, 23, of Oman, is a postgraduate student taking part in the institute’s integrated seawater energy and agriculture system (Iseas) project. “Iseas is a system where we produce food as well as biofuels and other marketa...
LORD Corporation has signed AOG Heliservices, a leader in helicopter part sales, overhaul maintenance and other support solutions, as a global distributor for LORD elastomeric helicopter components. Established to provide added solutions for customers worldwide, the strategic partnership will enable AOG Heliservices and LORD to help reduce direct operating costs (DOCs), as well as improve servi...
Russian Earth remote sensing satellite constellation will be expanded to 15 spacecraft by 2020; it will help strengthen the country’s position at the global market in the geo-information products and services segment. It was stated at the plenary session of the XIII All-Russian open conference “Contemporary issues in the area of Earth remote sensing”, which was held on November 2...
ATR, the world’s leading turboprop manufacturer, is pleased to announce the opening of a Representative Office in Beijing, a new milestone in its long history of cooperation with China. For nearly 20 years China has been a strategic partner and supplier for ATR. Key airframe sections and some components of the wings of ATR aircraft are produced by Xian Aircraft Company (XAC...
LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, will launch a new service from Barbados to Trinidad early next year. Starting January 18, LIAT will fly nonstop daily from the Grantley Adams International Airport to Piarco International Airport. The flight will depart Barbados at 13:00 and arrive in Trinidad at 14:00. The return flight will leave Trinidad at 14:30 and arrive in Barbados at 15:30. Tick...
A new white paper from global wealth intelligence authority Wealth-X and the international business aviation consultancy reveals keen insights about ultra-high-net worth (UHNW) Middle Eastern private jet owners, reports Barbara Saunders The report profiles the UHNW Middle Eastern jet owner, their preferences and the business aviation opportunity in the region. There are 5,975 UHNW individual...
Flydubai has signed a long-term contract with Joramco, which will provide the carrier with airframe maintenance solutions for its 50 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The contract lasts until December 2017, extending a partnership initiated in 2013, and will include C checks, EIS (Entry Into Service) and lease hand backs for the entire fleet. “Joramco has provided exce...
Formula 1 cars have started to arrive at Abu Dhabi International Airport, in preparation of this weekend's race. Many flights of the eight scheduled flights have landed from Brazil, where the previous race had been held. The Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will take place next weekend at Yas Island, marking the final race of the 2015 Formula 1 season.
Copa Airlines took delivery of the 100th airplane to join its fleet, a Boeing 737-800 decorated with a special decal celebrating the airline achieving this important milestone. The airplane, leased from SMBC Aviation Capital, flew from Seattle to its Panama City home base, where it was welcomed by a special ceremony. "We are proud to celebrate this historic achieveme...
Strata Manufacturing will not become Airbus’ sole provider of A330 and A340 ailerons until 2017, a year after the original contractual agreement, following a request by the planemaker to push back the schedule. Saif Al Dabashi, Senior Operations Manager at Strata, told Gulf News on Monday Airbus has asked the composite plane parts maker to delay the timeline by one year because of a &ldqu...
While civil helicopter sales are down worldwide with the falling price of oil, Doug Carriger, Airbus Helicopters’ senior director of marketing for North America, sees a resilient U.S. market that is rebounding in key sectors such as EMS and law enforcement, and even showing a few bright spots in the depressed offshore energy market. Carriger said that this has bee...
A heavy snowfall has grounded dozens of flights at Moscow's two main airports, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, a news report said Sunday. Some 30 flights that were scheduled to depart from Sheremetyevo had been delayed on Sunday evening, while another five flights have been canceled, the Interfax news agency reported. At Domodedovo, 13 fligh...
Arbil airport closure due to Russian military airstrikes in neighbouring Syria prompts move. Emirates and Qatar Airways are cancelling flights to Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan this week after Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) closed the region's airports due to a military campaign in neighbouring Syria. The ICAA said late on Sunday it was suspending flights to Arbil and Sulaimaniya...
Dowty Propellers’ reset of its production capabilities is fully underway, placing the company on track to ramp-up the manufacture of composite propeller blades following a fire earlier this year at its Gloucestershire headquarters in southwest England. A new interim production site has begun operation at an 80,000-sq. ft. facility in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire county, which has been ada...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that a second and third Gulfstream G500 aircraft (T2 and T3) joined the flight test campaign with successful completion of their initial flights. T2 focuses on flight loads validation, while T3 is the main test bed for the G500 avionics systems. T2 took off at 9:07 a.m. from Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport on Friday, Nov. 20. Flight Test pilots...
Etihad Airways Engineering, the Middle East’s leading aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider, has become the first organisation in the Middle East to be granted an extended Part21J Design Organisation Approval (DOA) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to undertake major cabin design and modification. With the new approval Etihad Airways Engineering is entitled...
An Airbus C295W aircraft belonging to the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) and operated by a mixed crew from Airbus Defence and Space and SEMAR has carried out demonstration flights in El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia, one of the airports with the most extreme hot and high conditions in the world. The C295W, which landed at El Alto International Airport, more than 4,000m above sea level, on Tuesday, has...
A very special event took place on November 21, 2015 in "Heliport Istra", which is a part of the group of companies "Heliport Russia". Champion pilots rewarding by Guinness World Records. The historic flight took place on June 6, 2015. On this day, 25 Robinson helicopters of Heliport Russia were flying over the suburbs. Each helicopter was operated by a crew of two peopl...
After three hours of debates on November 19th, the government in Latvia decided to move forward with the previously accepted airBaltic investment plan. Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) told members of the press today that the government will more forward with the investment plan after it is approved by Saeima. Straujuma said that the original agreement has been amended, as there wer...
South African Airways’ (SAA) catering arm, Air Chefs, has received ISO 22000 food safety certification, opening doors for further catering contracts. The ISO 22000 certification which Air Chefs received, makes it the only airline catering company in Southern Africa to have received this global food safety management system standard at all its food manufacturing plants, giving it traceabil...
Brisbane West Wellcamp has become Australia’s latest international airport with the arrival of a Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-8F. The Cathay freighter, registered B-LJA, touched down a little after 1430 local time on Monday from Sydney and was due to be on the ground for about 90 minutes while cargo such as chilled beef, mangoes, pecan nuts and grains from the surrounding Darling D...
