All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 34
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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.
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INTERVIEW: Piaggio chief executive Renato Vaghi
Reports of Piaggio Aerospace’s departure from the business aviation market are premature, it seems. The Middle Eastern-owned Italian manufacturer of the distinctive P180 Avanti has struggled to sell corporate aircraft in recent years as it simultaneously has tried to build a defence business based on special mission variants of the ...
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Royal Jet introduces two new BBJs
Royal Jet, the world's biggest Boeing Business Jets operator, is preparing to introduce the second of a pair of new 34-seat BBJs, taking the Abu Dhabi operator's fleet of the type to eight.
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ANALYSIS: Where Emirates will use large widebodies for short-haul
Confirmation that Emirates has retired its last Airbus A330 to leave it with an exclusively Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 fleet means that it will be flying seven short-haul routes from its hub of less than 1,000km distance using two of the biggest widebodies on the market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: AHRLAC leads the charge in South African revival
In offices overlooking the production hall at AHRLAC Holdings, new graduate engineers work alongside colleagues in their fifties and sixties. The latter are largely veterans of the sanctions-era South African aerospace sector and are mentoring a new generation of aircraft developers.
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ANALYSIS: Industry raising the profile of upset recovery training
How well equipped are airline and business jet pilots to cope with a loss of control incident? It is a question that has perplexed the industry for two decades, but which was brought starkly home by the crash of Air France flight 447 in 2009, when the Airbus A330 pilots ...