Jeddah, Sabre Travel Network Middle East (STNME or Sabre), a technology company serving travel agencies and suppliers, has extended its fare-distribution agreement with Saudia Arabian Airlines (Saudia). The agreement shall permit over 350,000 travel agents connected to Sabre to access Saudia’s seats and fare information.
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Dubai Airports Company announced today, the passenger traffic at Dubai International exceeded the 4.5 million mark for the fourth months according to the April traffic report released. Passenger traffic in April reached 4,566,673 an increase of 7.8 per cent compared to 4,237,548 during the corresponding month in the year 2011.
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Dubai, flydubai, Dubai’s low-cost carrier, has signed with Pembroke, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank specialising in aircraft leasing, financing and management services, to finance twoBoeing 737-800NG aircraft.
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Etihad Airways announed its recruitment drive in the Sultanate of Oman has accepted the induction of 18 Omani cadet pilots. The airline's cadet pilot program launched in June 2007, in partnership with Horizon Flight Academy, the latter currently has 161 cadets pilots under training to be fully qualified airliner pilots.
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Etihad Airways said it has wet leased a Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER to operate on the Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur route. The once a week wet lease service is an addition to the two airline ten-year strategic partnership announced on August 26, 2010.
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Amman, Royal Jordanian announced it received two aircraft from a total order placed with Dublin-based lessor AWAS, early 2011 of seven Airbus A321 and A320. The intention is to replace the current six Airbus A320s and A321s with seven new aircraft of the same type (that includes an additional A320), the delivered aircraft are powered by IAE V2500 engines (International Aero Engines).
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Washington, D.C. The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) today announced a new policy to increase U.S. aviation-industry exports. Ex-Im will now finance transactions of U.S.-produced goods and services for aftermarket (post-manufacturing) use on foreign-manufactured aircraft.
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