All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 34
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MEBAA: Air Elite expands into China with Deer Jet
World Fuel Services Air Elite Network has entered the Chinese market for the first time after adding eight Deer Jet FBOs.
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MEBAA: Comlux boosts range of ACJ321 with extra fuel tank installation
Comlux is offering ACJ321 operators an Airbus-approved additional fuel tank installation it says adds 500nm (926km) to the aircraft’s range, and is formally launching the service at MEBAA.
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MEBAA: Deer Jet becomes major shareholder in UAS
Chinese business aviation company Deer Jet has become the “major shareholder” in UAS International Trip Support (UAS), with the deal completed as MEBAA began yesterday.
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MEBAA: Harrods Aviation sees rise in large aircraft movements
London FBO chain Harrods Aviation says it is experiencing a “sharp rise” in movements from head of state and other airliner-based business aircraft, with 250 visits in the past 12 months, a 20% increase since 2013. The sister business to the upscale department store puts part of the increase down ...
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MEBAA: Russian FBO operator A-Group makes a bee-line for MEBAA
A-Group is claiming to be the first Russian FBO operator to exhibit at MEBAA. The business, founded in 2006 and which has facilities at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and at Pulkovo in St Petersburg, is marketing itself to potential Middle Eastern clients as a gateway to Russia’s two main cities, or ...
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MEBAA: AMAC secures series of MRO contracts
Switzerland’s AMAC Aerospace is at MEBAA, having secured a clutch of maintenance packages on Airbus, Boeing and large-cabin Gulfstream business jets, including from the Middle East.
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MEBAA: ExecuJet celebrates successful six months at DWC
ExecuJet is marking at MEBAA what it says has been a “successful” first six months for its new FBO at Al Maktoum airport. Since opening the site in June, ExecuJet Middle East has been named preferred ground handler at the airport for the flight support specialist Universal Weather & Aviation.
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MEBAA: Gulfstream displays four-zone G650ER
Gulfstream is going head to head with the Bombardier Global 7000 at MEBAA by displaying a four-zone cabin version of the G650ER. The Savannah-based airframer's flagship – traditionally offered with a three-zone cabin – faces competition from the new Bombardier champion, which flew for the first time earlier this month. ...
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MEBAA: DC Aviation and Lufthansa Technik partnership in Dubai gets to work
Lufthansa Technik and DC Aviation have inaugurated a cooperation agreement signed in May this year by performing the first A check on a narrowbody aircraft at Al Maktoum.
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MEBAA: Airbus hints at ACJ350 customer and ACJ330neo
MEBAA is beginning with the familiar battle of the big business jets. Airbus yesterday announced its eighth commitment for an ACJ320neo, said that it was close to securing its first ACJ350 customer, and hinted at the imminent launch an ACJ version of its latest widebody, the A330neo.
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MEBAA: Flying Colours installs its first Satcom Direct system
Canadian completions house Flying Colours has carried out its first installations of the Satcom Direct Router in two Bombardier Global 5000s
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MEBAA: Dubai's new business aviation gateway
Dubai South – the giant real estate development around what is planned to be one of the world’s mega-hubs – is beginning to look less like a soulless expanse of desert criss-crossed by empty, six-lane highways and more like a burgeoning aviation complex. The dusty, palm-tree-lined roads are still largely ...
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MEBAA: Vision Systems shows its electronically dimmable windows
It’s not such a dim idea: Vision Systems has brought to MEBAA its range of what it calls “solar protection” products for business jet windows.
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MEBAA: Avinode reports big rise in charter requests from Middle East
There has been a sizable hike in requests to charter business aircraft from the Middle East in the past year, suggesting industry fortunes in the region could be rebounding, says the online private flight marketplace Avinode.
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MEBAA: Jetcraft issues downbeat forecast for Middle East
The business aircraft sales brokerage Jetcraft has issued a downbeat outlook for the industry in the Middle East, suggesting the region will make up just three in every 100 business jet deliveries over the next 10 years.
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MEBAA: Boeing looks to Middle East potential of Max 7
Boeing believes the just-launched business jet version of its smallest 737 Max variant will open up a new market in the Gulf by offering the capability of flying non-stop to the US East Coast for the first time.
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MEBAA: Mixed messages on Middle East charter market
If the Middle East’s business aviation market has peaked, nobody appears to have told the region’s two big charter players. Both Qatar Executive and Abu Dhabi’s Royal Jet have been investing heavily in metal. Royal Jet – the world’s biggest Boeing Business Jets operator – has just put into service ...
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MEBAA: After 10 years, association celebrates successes and acknowledges battles still to be fought
The Middle East Business Aviation Association – the organisation behind the MEBAA show – is celebrating its 10th anniversary. They have notched up a number of successes, but still face a string of challenges, from an inconsistent regulatory environment to a customer base still largely resistant to mid-size business aircraft. ...
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MEBAA: PC-12 operator plans to change the image of turboprops in Gulf
A start-up is aiming to defy the perception that business people in the Gulf will only fly on airlines or large private jets. Gi Aviation will launch operations in late December with what it says is the region’s first turboprop air taxi service, using a six-seat Pilatus PC-12NG. A second ...
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VIDEO: Infrastructure a major focus at MEBAA this year
With Dubai International already straining to cope with the expansion of Emirates Airline and its sister Flydubai, Expo 2020 - which the city will host - could be a major test of the UAE's airports to cope with a influx of high-end visitors.