All Middle East articles – Page 77
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Air Arabia to open Kyrgyzstan services
Middle Eastern budget carrier Air Arabia is to open services to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, later this year.
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NewsLatest Emirates fleet plan completely omits 787-10s
Emirates Group’s newly-released annual report lists 234 future aircraft deliveries, but makes no mention of the Boeing 787-10s for which Emirates signed in 2017.
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Business aviation safety review of 2018
Last year, generally showed some improvement over 2017 in business aviation safety, although the number of business jet fatalities – at 25 – was slightly up on the previous year, when 22 passengers and crew died. Nevertheless, 2018 results for both business jets and turboprops have generally come in on ...
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Ground worker killed in Kuwait 777 towing accident
Kuwait Airways has disclosed that a ground-support worker was killed during a towing accident at the company’s base airport on 6 May.
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PICTURES: Top campaigning liveries on commercial airliners
Lufthansa's new #SayYesToEurope livery – intended to promote the idea of a strong European Union in the run-up to parliamentary elections – is the latest example of an airline using a special livery to promote a particular cause or organisation. Here, we present a selection of such schemes
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PICTURES: The leased jets backfilling for lost 737 Max capacity
As operators across the world scramble to fill capacity gaps created by the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, we present this gallery of aircraft that have been drafted into affected fleets
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Ranking the world's airports by traffic growth in 2018
Preliminary traffic figures collated by Cirium for the 100 biggest airports in the world show passenger traffic increased by 5.3% during 2018.
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PICTURE: Air Arabia goes long-range with first A321neo
Middle Eastern budget carrier Air Arabia has received its first Airbus A321neo, a long-range version of the twinjet.
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NewsPICTURES: Emirates completes 777-200LR cabin refits
Emirates has completed conversions of 10 Boeing 777-200LRs from three-class to two-class cabin configurations.
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NewsEmirates completes Expo 2020 Dubai livery
Emirates has finished painting 40 aircraft in bespoke “Expo 2020 Dubai” liveries, rolling out the final Airbus A380 in the eye-catching orange “opportunity” decal from the Emirates Engineering hangar in Dubai.
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Water-arch mishap blew out A320 emergency exit door
Celebrations to mark the arrival of a Saudia Airbus A320 service to Dubai misfired when a ceremonial firefighters’ water-arch punched out an overwing exit and caused its evacuation slide to deploy.
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AIX: Etihad to trial Panasonic's Jet Lag Adviser
Etihad Airways is to be the first airline to trial Panasonic's new wellness solution, the Jet Lag Adviser, developed in collaboration with Detalytics and incorporated into the airline's app.
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AIX: Etihad chooses Bluebox aIFE to aid sight-impaired customers
Etihad Airways is to upgrade its Bluebox Ai-equipped Apple iPads to include Bluebox aIFE, the manufacturer's IFE platform for visually-impaired passengers.
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Airliner configurations on the six longest routes
Ahead of AIX 2019 in Hamburg, we explore the airliner configurations in use on the world’s six longest routes
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Five key themes for Big Data in aerospace
The concept of big data and predictive maintenance has echoed around industry boardrooms for several years. In its most ideal form, massive streams of data are pumped from aircraft in real time. On the ground, networks equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) use machine learning to make sense of it all ...
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Boeing engages pilots, technicians and regulators on 737 Max
Boeing has started holding information sessions with pilots, technical leaders and regulators on the Boeing 737 Max as it works towards having the global grounding of the fleet lifted.
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Second Iranian Fokker in three days suffers gear failure
Iranian investigators are probing the second serious landing-gear incident involving a Fokker 100 in the space of three days after an Iran Aseman aircraft diverted to Tehran when its undercarriage only partially deployed.
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Hydraulic failure preceded Iran Air Fokker gear-up landing
Iranian investigators probing a gear-up landing involving an Iran Air Fokker 100 believe a failure in one of the aircraft’s two main hydraulic systems led to the accident.
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PodcastPODCAST: Airline Business team on 737 Max, KLM, Saudia and A380
The new edition of the Airline Business Podcast is now available.
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Airline BusinessANALYSIS: A380 flights set to fall for first time in 2019
The cancellation of the Airbus A380 programme comes in a year that could see the first drop in scheduled passenger flights made by the type.