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STTS launch paint hangar at Dubai South

STTS, a specialist in painting & sealing of airline, military and VIP aircraft, belonging to the French group Finaero, has launched a purpose built paint hangar at Dubai South. In order to offer its customers greater proximity, STTS is investing in a 34 million USD project that will accommodate a wide body painting bay at the new international airport. The site will also accommodate an a...

Etihad Airways to commence twice-weekly services to Rabat

Etihad Airways is increasing its presence in Morocco with the launch of a new twice-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and Rabat to create a direct link between the two capitals. Scheduled to start on 15 January 2016, and providing the only scheduled air link between the UAE and Rabat, the new service will be operated on Wednesdays and Fridays using an A340-500 aircraft configured to carry a tota...

Royal jet and UAE GHQ Armed Forces sign contract

Abu Dhabi: Royal jet has signed a contract with the UAE GHQ Armed Forces to provide a wide spectrum of technical & operational training to Air Force staff. The signing ceremony took place on the last day of the Dubai Airshow 2015, by General Ebrahim Al Alawi (Commander HQ UAE Air Force & Air Defence) & Captain Patrick Gordon (Interim President/CEO) of Royal Jet in the presence of de...

Etihad and Emirates amenity kits: luxury personal care in the skies

Last month both Etihad and Emirates introduced new amenity kits for their business class cabins. While Etihad teamed up with Luxe City Guides to offer stylised kits that contain travel guides to six destinations and natural facial products from the London-based toiletry brand Scaramouche + Fandango, Emirates rolled out The Private Collection, a set of 16 exclusive kits – eight for men and...

ADA Millennium Seals Major Canadian MRO Deal

The newly-established ADA Millennium – the management consultancy joint venture between Abu Dhabi Aviation and the UK's jcba – says it has secured a major restructure and performance improvement contract for a leading Canadian MRO and that its business pipeline includes projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Europe. “We are in the early stages but the synergies between...

Abu Dhabi Air Expo doubles in size for 2016

Al Bateen Executive Airport has said that it has doubled the exhibition space for Abu Dhabi Air Expo 2016 in response to huge demand from key industry professionals to participate. Abu Dhabi Air Expo 2016 is being held from March 8th to 10th, as part of Abu Dhabi Aviation and Aerospace Week. The event will occupy nearly 60,000 square meters of space at Al Bateen Executive Airport. Dass...

Bombardier to deliver two Global 5000 aircraft to Middle Eastern customers

Bombardier has marked the upcoming delivery of two new entry-long range Global 5000 aircraft to be operated by longstanding partner and leading business aviation services organisation ExecuJet Middle East of Dubai. ExecuJet Middle East will manage the aircraft on behalf of two customers in the region. “The business jet fleet in the Middle East has more than doubled in the past 10...

Middle East Business Jet Market Soaring

The middle east business aviation market is rapidly developing and the UAE is among the top three countries for fleet size of business aircraft. This was revealed by Gama Aviation, a global aviation services company, in its new research. It says that there are now 792 business aircraft in the Middle East, and between 2010 and 2014, 176 of these were delivered to the region. Gama Aviation'...

Emirates signs agreement with Teledyne Controls

Emirates signed at the Dubai Airshow last week an agreement with Teledyne Controls to equip its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft pending delivery with Teledyne's GroundLink system. The Teledyne GroundLink system is a multi-application communication system that automates and accelerates the downloading of essential flight data after each flight and supports the very latest Flight Data Monitoring (F...

Jet Aviation Dubai receives FAA approval for non-destructive testing shop

Jet Aviation Dubai recently added a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) shop for which it has now received FAA approval. The company will extend its maintenance services to include non-destructive testing with immediate effect. With this approval, Jet Aviation Dubai expands its maintenance capabilities to include florescent penetrant testing (FT), ultrasonic testing (UT) and eddy current tes...

Al-Futtaim signs lease agreement with Dubai South

Dubai-based Al-Futtaim has signed a lease agreement with Dubai South for a 10,000sqm plot of land adjacent to the existing facility of DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) as part of the expansion plans of the only fully integrated business aviation facility based out of Al Maktoum International Airport (AMIA). The new plot will drastically increase the operational potential and capabilities of DCAF w...

Deals Worth Around $40 Billion Signed at Dubai Airshow 2015

The Dubai Airshow 2015 resulted in the signing of agreements worth a total of $39.8 billion, as compared to $200 billion at the 2013 exhibition, the organizers of the show said Thursday. The agreement signed between the UAE Emirates airline and the US General Electric company for maintenance of 100 Boeing-777 engines became the largest contract announced at the airshow. T...