All Middle East news – Page 126
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can Airbus challenge 787 with A330neo?
Airbus added a dash of spice to the mid-range, mid-size market with last year’s launch of an updated version of its best-selling widebody, the A330. But in a sector where there are already several established types, is there enough room for another big twin to be dropped into the mix?
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OpinionOPINION: Why Airbus is wrestling with its 'A380neo' decision
With re-engining central to four successful airframe-refresh programmes, one could be forgiven for wondering why Airbus is wrestling with its decision about whether to update its flagship product.
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Qatar to open new Tanzanian route
Oneworld alliance partner Qatar Airways is to open services to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar in the second half of the year.
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ANALYSIS: Gloves come off in US-Gulf open-skies spat
When Etihad Airways chief executive James Hogan accepted an invitation months ago to speak at a high-level aviation event in Washington DC, he wasn't expecting to end up defending his airline's business strategy to hundreds of people in a packed ballroom.
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EASA awards contract for cabin air contamination research
EASA has commissioned a pair of German organisations – one a medical school and the other an applied research establishment – to research cabin air quality. The agency says the research will start with in-flight work to identify suitable instrumentation to measure cabin and cockpit air contamination.
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EASA proposes new safety oversight management
Following broad consultation with national aviation authorities, the European Aviation Safety Agency has published proposals for a more flexible and responsive way of managing safety oversight in Europe.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: That pilot shortage – will it prove to be another mirage?
Aircraft order backlog figures show airlines are investing in unprecedented numbers of new aircraft, but not in the skilled trades that are still needed to maintain and fly them. As a result the global ab-initio training industry may have insufficient capacity to cope with demand when the existing rather shallow ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The state of the search for MH370 on the anniversary of its loss
The first anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be marked on 8 March 2015. Although the Australian Transport Safety Bureau continues to lead the multinational team searching the southern Indian Ocean seabed, no trace of the missing Boeing 777 has been found.
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NewsEmirates 'confident' that subsidy claims unfounded
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark is "confident" that allegations of the airline being subsidised are unfounded, as the carrier's US mainline rivals turn up the heat in a battle over US open skies with the Gulf.
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NewsUS big three call Gulf carriers ‘outliers’ for state support
The big three US carriers are calling the Gulf carriers “global outliers” for the amount of state support they receive, in their push for limits on open skies with Qatar and the UAE.
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Qatar looking to expand investments in other airlines
Qatar Airways is aiming to increase its near-10% shareholding in European airline group IAG and invest in other carriers too, chief executive Akbar Al Baker confirms.
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NewsSecond A350 to up ante in Qatar's battle with Lufthansa
Qatar Airways is today taking delivery of its second Airbus A350, which – like the first – will be used to operate Doha-Frankfurt flights.
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Royal Jet awards BBJ engine MRO contract to SR Technics
VVIP charter operator, Royal Jet, has awarded Switzerland's SR Technics a five-year contract to maintain, repair and overhaul the CFM International CFM56-7B engines on its six Boeing Business Jets - the largest BBJ fleet.in the world. Work on the first narrowbody began late last month at SR Technics facility ...
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NewsBAE given green light to export missile countermeasures system
The US Department of Defense has approved the BAE Systems ALQ-212 advanced threat infrared countermeasures (ATIRCM) system for export.
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NewsAirborne early wonders: our Top 10 eyes in the sky
In the week that Royal Australian Air Force officials hailed the performance of the service’s Boeing 737-based Wedgetail aircraft over Iraq – and as the UK draws closer to announcing a successor to its Westland Sea King 7 capability – our Top 10 looks at some of the unusual and ...
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NewsMany pilots 'medically-impaired' due to toxic cabin air
The Global Cabin Air Quality Executive heard at its annual conference in London yesterday that at least 3% of airline pilots are flying with degraded physical and mental performance caused by repeated exposure to neurotoxins in the aircraft cabin air, and may become actually incapacitated during flight if their exposure ...
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NewsBA and CAA ordered to act on cabin air contamination
British Airways and the UK Civil Aviation Authority have been given 56 days (until 13 April) to reply to a Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”, that the December 2012 death of a BA pilot, Richard Westgate, was associated with the presence in his body of organophosphate toxins that are ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US carriers focus on alleged subsidies to Gulf carriers
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are concerned about the magnitude of subsidies they believe Gulf carriers receive, as the US carriers push to limit open skies with Qatar and the UAE.
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NewsDelta chief 'crossed the line' with 9/11 remarks: Emirates' Clark
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark believes Delta Air Lines chief executive Richard Anderson overstepped the mark when he linked the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the Gulf carriers, as the row over subsidies and open skies escalates.
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