All Middle East articles – Page 115
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AnalysisANALYSIS: IATA sees airlines keeping shine on profits
Outgoing IATA director general Tony Tyler closed the association’s AGM in Dublin with a quip about how host carrier chief Stephen Kavanah, in contrast to the hailstorms of Cape Town in 2013, had delivered uninterrupted sun for the event,
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IATA: Emirates closes on A350/787 order decision
Emirates is finalising an order for either the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 but does not expect to be in a position to complete a deal in time for July's Farnborough air show.
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IATA: No board seat envisaged in Qatar's IAG investment strategy
Qatar Airways sees its acquisition of a stake in IAG as part of a long-term strategic investment plan but not one that will require the airline to take a board seat as long as the current management structure remains in place.
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IATA: Emirates downbeat on chances of early A380neo launch
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark does not envisage any quick decision from Airbus regarding the launch of a re-engined A380 and is more concerned about the long-term prospects for the current variant.
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IATA: Association works to flag blocked funds risks earlier
IATA is working on establishing a new early-alert system to help flag to its members countries where a shortage of foreign currency reserves could risk airline funds become blocked as they have been in Venezuela.
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IATA: Airline profits outperforming sluggish economic growth
While record profits in a low-growth economy suggest airlines have gone some way to successfully decoupling their financial fortunes from economic growth, the IATA believes fragility of the latter remains the biggest to derailing the industry's strong profit run.
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ILA: Emirates returns to ILA as tensions rise between Lufthansa and Gulf carriers
Emirates has returned to ILA with its Airbus A380, as tensions continue between Lufthansa and Gulf carriers over access to slots at German airports.
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IATA: Leahy eyes early call on 'A350-2000' decision
Airbus sales chief John Leahy would like Airbus to decide “sooner rather than later” whether to go ahead with its proposed A350-1000 stretch, dubbed the “-2000”, to start securing orders in what could be a relatively small market.
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IATA: Leahy believes CSeries pricing strategy unsustainable
Airbus’s top salesman John Leahy is unmoved by the Bombardier CSeries recent sales successes and remains sceptical that the twinjet is becoming a genuine rival. He does not believe Bombardier has the financial wherewithal to sustain the sort of long-term loss making sales strategy usually required to become established as ...
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IATA: Bombardier sees discounts key to CSeries traction
Bombardier executives say discounts for its flagship CSeries as key to gaining momentum for the programme, responding to criticism from Airbus executives.
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IATA: Adapting safety focus as operating environment changes
IATA has always taken safety and security seriously, but the emphasis has to alter subtly from time to time to take account of changes in the global operating environment. A quick glance at recent airline safety performance shows accidents are down, but disasters have still occurred and the terrorist threat ...
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IATA: Tyler corrals troops to champion carbon-offset deal
IATA director general Tony Tyler is delighted his members are congregating in Dublin this year, heralding Ireland as a great example of a country that embraces commercial aviation. And as he makes his last appearance as the association’s boss, Tyler acknowledges that 2016 is a crunch time for the world’s ...
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US approves $420m support deal for Kuwait Hornets
The US State Department has approved a $420 million support package for Kuwait’s fleet of Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighter aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The biggest LCCs by traffic and financials in 2015
When Ryanair ended the 2015 calendar year passing the 100 million passenger mark, it further underlined the huge growth the low-cost sector has continued to experience over recent years
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EBACE: GDC Technics undeterred by excess completions capacity
GDC Technics acknowledges that a slowdown in the number of VIP aircraft completions has resulted in excess capacity in the market, but believes its ability to engineer and install increasingly complicated solutions puts it among a small handful of companies that are up to the job.
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EBACE: IASO launches as new aviation services umbrella body
A new umbrella organisation for the world of aviation services was launched in Geneva last night.
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EBACE: The Business of Safety
Long-term business aviation accident rates are on a gentle downward trend, but there are areas of weakness that keep showing up
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Weather conditions good at time of EgyptAir A320 disappearance
Weather conditions over the eastern Mediterranean at the time of the EgyptAir Airbus A320 disappearance appear to have been good.
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EgyptAir A320 search focusing on distress beacon signal
Egyptian and Greek authorities are concentrating a search for the missing EgyptAir Airbus A320 after indicating that an emergency signal has been received.
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NewsAMAC set to expand maintenance offering to Turkey
Swiss maintenance and interiors specialist AMAC Aerospace has acquired 6,400m² (69,000ft²) of land at Milas Bodrum airport in Turkey, on which it plans to build a new aircraft maintenance hangar.