Cedar Rapids, Iowa, EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins avionics for five A330 aircraft with an option for three additional aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from August 2010 through 2012.
READ MOREManama - National carrier GulfAir has signed a US$70 million facility with Bahrain Islamic Bank (BIsB). An agreement to this effect was concluded between the two organizations recently. This four year medium-term facility will be used to partly finance eight A320 aircraft, which are expected to delivered in the fourth quarter 2009 and first quarter 2010 Gulf Air has ordered last year..
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Afriqiyah Airways has taken delivery of their first Airbus A330-200 aircraft, becoming a new operator of this aircraft type. The new A330 will seat 230 passengers in a two-class cabin and will serve long-haul operations on routes from Tripoli to Africa and Europe.
READ MOREManama - National carrier Gulf Air, in its ongoing efforts to provide enhanced passenger services, has recently upgraded its flight safety standards by acquiring an integrated state-of –the-art Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) system, also known as Flight Operation Quality Assurance (FOQA)system.
READ MOREDubai, Jet Aviation Dubai has recently expanded its service offerings to include base and line maintenance for Hawker 750, 800, 800XP, 850XP and 900XP, Gulfstream G350/G450 and Embraer 135/145 aircraft under the company's EASA approval ( #145.0317).
READ MOREDubai, Emirates has become the world’s largest airline operator of Boeing 777 aircraft with the arrival of its 78th Boeing 777 today.Emirates has another 28 Boeing 777s pending delivery, worth over US$ 7 billion at list prices, and it is also the only airline to operate every model in the Boeing 777 family: -200s, -200ERs, -200LRs, -300s, -300ERs and freighters.
READ MOREAmman, Royal Jordanian Board of Directors chaired by Nasser Lozi approved in its July 29, 2009, session the financial results for the first half of 2009. RJ, the oneworld member, achieved net profits of around JD7.7 million, against JD4 million in net losses incurred during the same period of last year.
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