All Middle East articles – Page 77
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NewsQatar Airways lifts IAG stake to 25%
Qatar Airways has increased its shareholding in British Airways and Iberia parent IAG from 21.4% to 25.1%.
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NewsEgyptAir receives first A320neo
EgyptAir has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320neo, the initial aircraft in a batch of 15 being acquired by the Middle Eastern flag-carrier. Airbus has confirmed the handover of the twinjet, powered by CFM International Leap-1A engines. Source: Airbus Three EgyptAir A320neos – SU-GFK, SU-GFJ and SU-GFL ...
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NewsEl Al to serve third London airport with Stansted link
Israeli carrier El Al is to re-open a connection to London Stansted, more than a decade after it last operated to the airport. El Al is to conduct flights to Tel Aviv using Boeing 737-800s. It will operate five-times weekly on the route from 28 June with flights initially continuing ...
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NewsKuwaiti terminal adds to strong Jazeera full-year profits
Kuwaiti budget carrier Jazeera Airways has turned in strong full-year results, more than doubling its operating and net profits. The carrier states that its operating profit reached KD14.2 million ($46.6 million) while its net profit rose to KD14.9 million. It attributes the performance to a near-21% hike in passenger numbers ...
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NewsFlawed firefighting preceded fatal Emirates 777 explosion
Flawed firefighting tactics and inadequate accident site surveillance contributed to the sole fatality after an Emirates Boeing 777-300 crashed on the runway at Dubai during a failed go-around. While two initial foam vehicles – known as Fire 6 and Fire 10 – arrived at the scene of the accident within ...
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NewsEmirates 777 crash probe revisits pilot awareness of design logic
Investigation of the Emirates Boeing 777-300 go-around accident in Dubai is likely to draw further attention to the issue of pilots’ awareness and understanding of aircraft system design logic. The crew attempted to abort the landing and activated the go-around switches, without realising that the aircraft had briefly touched down ...
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NewsCaptain perceived ‘thermals’ before ill-fated Emirates 777 go-around
Investigators have disclosed that an Emirates Boeing 777-300 captain perceived the aircraft had encountered a thermal updraught, and would not be able to land in the touchdown zone at Dubai, before an ill-fated go-around attempt resulted in the jet’s crashing on the runway. While it had already explained why the ...
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NewsQatar Airways in negotiations to acquire 49% of RwandAir
Qatar Airways is in talks to acquire a 49% stake in state-owned RwandAir and is “keen to invest” in Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo when the time is right, the Gulf carrier’s chief executive Akbar Al Baker disclosed today.
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NewsAvianca latest to probe relationship with Airbus
Colombian carrier Avianca has engaged a law firm to conduct an independent internal investigation into its relationship with Airbus, after the airline was linked to the extensive probe into alleged bribery involving the airframer. French authorities have disclosed that Airbus orders from airlines including Avianca, Air Arabia, Korean Air, China ...
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NewsStrata delivers first flap-track fairings for PC-24
Abu Dhabi composite aerostructures specialist Strata has delivered the first shipset of flap track fairings to Pilatus for the PC-24 business jet.
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NewsIran Air A319 edges into mud after snowy landing
Iran Air is playing down an incident involving one of its Airbus A319s which ran into rough ground after landing at Kermanshah early on 1 February. The airline states that the aircraft – arriving as flight IR283 from Tehran Mehrabad at about 06:00 – did not veer off the runway, ...
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NewsEASA eases overflight warnings for Iran and Iraq
Safety regulators have withdrawn a recommendation to avoid all overflights of Iran, three weeks after a Boeing 737-800 was apparently shot down inadvertently over Tehran.
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NewsEmirates launches fifth freedom Singapore-Penang flights
Emirates is extending one daily Dubai-Singapore service to Penang from 9 April, having secured fifth freedom rights between the neighbouring countries. The Dubai-based carrier says it will deploy Boeing 777-300ERs, configured with 354 seats across three classes, bringing nearly 2,500 seats per week on the route. Source: Emirates ...
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NewsLeonardo Helicopters secures launch customer for AW189K
Gulf Helicopters of Qatar is to be the launch customer of the super-medium twin.
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NewsCaspian MD-83 overrun crew requested opposite-direction runway: inquiry
Preliminary information from Iranian accident investigators indicates that the crew of a Caspian Airlines Boeing MD-83 requested to land in the opposite direction to the runway in use, before the jet overran at Mahshahr. The Civil Aviation Organisation says that the MD-83’s pilot was “notified” that runway 31 was in ...
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NewsCaspian MD-83 blocks highway after landing overrun at Mahshahr
Iranian authorities have dispatched a team of investigators to the scene of a Caspian Airlines Boeing MD-83 accident in which the aircraft suffered a runway overrun. The twinjet came to rest on a highway apparently off the southern end of the 2,400m runway 13 at Mahshahr airport, located near the ...
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NewsBritish Airways checks newest A350-1000 after Tel Aviv hard landing
British Airways is expecting to put a four-week old Airbus A350-1000 back into service on 23 January, after precautionary checks following a hard landing at Tel Aviv. The aircraft (G-XWBD) had registered the abnormal landing as the aircraft touched down on runway 12 at about 05:30 on 20 January, following ...
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NewsEtihad training arm wins EASA approval to train 777/787 pilots
Etihad Airways’ training unit has received European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval to train Boeing 777 and 787 pilots on behalf of airlines based in Europe and those outside the continent which follow its safety standards. Etihad Aviation Training, which has 11 full-motion simulators including five 777 and 787 ...
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NewsTwo anti-aircraft missiles fired from north towards UIA 737: inquiry
Iranian investigators have disclosed that two missiles from a Tor-M1 anti-aircraft system were fired before the loss of a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 shortly after departure from Tehran. The Civil Aviation Organisation states that secondary radar contact with flight PS752 was initially lost at 06:15, about 3min after take-off, ...
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NewsElbit demonstrates 24h firefighting using liquid pellets
Elbit Systems is offering the prospect of round-the-clock airborne firefighting after demonstrating a method of dropping liquid pellets from 500ft – more than four times higher than the normal altitude for water bombing.