Air Arabia today announced the launch of seasonal direct flights from Sharjah to Batumi, Georgia, to cater to summer tourist demand. Flights will operate from July 2 to September 30, 2016, with Batumi becoming the second city after Tbilisi to join Air Arabia’s network in Georgia. Flights will be operational twice a week on Thursdays … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments In a meeting held on March 13, 2016, Royal Jordanian’s Board of Directors, presided by Chairman Suleiman Hafez, endorsed the company’s audited financial results. The figures show that Royal Jordanian registered a net profit before tax of JD21 million in 2015, while in 2014 it had registered JD49.5 million … Read more
Emirates announced that it will operate one of its two scheduled daily flights into Vienna International Airport with its A380 aircraft as of 1 July 2016. The airline, which has carried almost three million passengers on the Dubai-Vienna route since it was launched on 1st May 2004, will fly its three-class A380 with 519 seats … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) signed a memorandum of understanding and initialed a bilateral agreement with the Federal Republic of Somalia. The memorandum of understanding states that air operations between the two countries, “from” and “to” 4 international destinations to be determined at a later time … Read more
Emirates put its plan to establish a hub in Panama connecting cities across Latin America with Asia on hold because government accords permitting cooperation with a key local carrier took too long to put in place. Dubai-based Emirates has secured approvals from only three or four of the 13 countries from which it needs backing … Read more
By Andrea Rothman (Bloomberg). Emirates President Tim Clark faulted Airbus for lacking a coherent strategy on its biggest airliners, saying the planemaker should focus on an upgrade of its A380 superjumbo rather than spend resources on yet another variant of its new A350 twin-engine model. Airbus’s thinking has become increasingly hard to read and talk of further … Read more
Dubai-based flydubai announced receiving its membership certificate from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), becoming the latest airline to join from the Middle East and North Africa.flydubai successfully completed its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) last year. The audit, which is a pre-requisite for an IATA membership, examined all the operational departments across the airline … Read more
Jordan Aviation announced that it has been granted the EASA Third Country Operators (TCO) approval on 3 March 2016. EASA TCO authorizes a non-EU commercial air operator to fly to any of the current 32 EASA member states, based on the airline’s commitment to the highest safety international standards.The assessment is based on ICAO standards … Read more
Following the successful launch of its daily service to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport, Emirates announced today that the route will be served by a Boeing 777-300 aircraft effective 27 March. With 364 seats, the 777-300 will take Emirates’ capacity on the route to 5096 seats per week, an increase of more than 50 percent compared with … Read more
Oman Air has chosen SmartKargo, providers of air cargo management solution, to power their cargo sales and operations, beginning June 2016. SmartKargo is the only cargo platform that is 100% Cloud-based, which delivers a range of benefits for users, including electronic airway bill, highly flexible pricing and ratemaking which increases cargo sales, quick completion of … Read more