Middle East

Dubai-based airline flydubai has announced today that it will boost its services to Saudi Arabia with 12 new flights per week.

The agreement will see Etihad Airways take delivery of five Airbus A350-1000, all 26 Airbus A321neos and six Boeing 777-9 aircraft over the coming years.

Etihad Airways will introduce the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its daily service from Abu Dhabi to Chengdu, effective 1 July 2019

Emirates is reducing its A380 order book from 162 to 123 aircraft. Emirates will take delivery of 14 further A380s over the next two years.

The daily service between Dubai and Phnom Penh, via Bangkok, will also complement Emirates’ five direct daily services between Dubai and Bangkok.

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, today revealed its second destination for 2019 being Salalah, in Sultanate of Oman.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, and Jordanian flag carrier, Royal Jordanian, have announced a new codeshare partnership which will provide their customers with greater access to key leisure and business destinations in North Africa, Europe, Canada, Asia and Australia. This is the first such partnership between the two airlines, who offer multiple … Read more

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, today revealed its first new destination for 2019 being Malaga – Costa del Sol in Spain.

Doha-based Qatar Airways Cargo has commenced freighter operations to its second new destination in 2019, Almaty in Kazakhstan

Qatar Airways has announced that it will convert 10 of its 50 Airbus A321neo on order to the Airbus A321LR (long range) variant of the A320 family.