Aircraft News - Africa / Middle East.May 21, 2007 Boeing Boeing has secured over USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $10 billion of plane orders from Arab carriers in the last three years fueled by growth in passenger traffic and an economic boom, a senior company official said on Sunday. The plane manufacturer was also engaged in negotiations with undisclosed Arab carriers for major orders this year, Monson (Lee Monson, senior vice president, Middle East and Africa) said, declining to give details. Boeing also made a deal last week worth USD$2.26 billion with the Kuwaiti aircraft leasing firm Alafco to sell 12 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner planes, and six Boeing 737-800 planes, he said. May 20, 2007 Boeing, Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكية الأردنية; transliterated: al-Malakiyah al-Orduniyah) is an airline based in Amman, Jordan, operating scheduled international services over four Boeing and Royal Jordanian today announced an order for Boeing's highly sought-after Boeing 787 Dreamliner, confirming two unidentified customer purchases previously listed on Boeing's Orders & Deliveries Web site. The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum, an event sanctioned by the Jordanian royal family and held at the King Hussein Noun 1. King Hussein - king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999) ibn Talal Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center on Jordan's Dead Sea. Royal Jordanian is the first Middle East airline to announce an order for Boeing's 787. The airline also intends to take an additional eight Boeing 787s The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a mid-sized, wide-body, twin engine jet airliner currently in production by Boeing Commercial Airplanes and scheduled to enter service in November 2008. on lease. May 20, 2007 EgyptAir, Embraer EgyptAir Express EgyptAir Express is a regional airline based in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 2006 as a regional jet subsidiary of EgyptAir and launched operations on 1st June 2007.[1] History took delivery of its first Embraer E-170. The new EgyptAir subsidiary ordered six E-170s in September plus six options and plans to use the regional jets in single-class configuration with 76 seats primarily for domestic services. May 16, 2007 Kenya Airways Kenya Airways, the national airline of Kenya, based in Nairobi, Africa, started operations on 4 February 1977 It operates scheduled services throughout Africa and to Europe and the Indian subcontinent, with its main base at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. , Boeing Kenya Airways 737 Crash Pilot Took Off Despite Storm Warning. The pilot of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon this month decided to take off in stormy weather while other flights waited for conditions to improve, Cameroon's civil aviation chief said on Tuesday. Cameroon has launched an investigation into the crash of the six-month-old Boeing 737-800, which crashed into swampy swamp n. 1. a. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog. b. A lowland region saturated with water. 2. jungle not far from Douala Airport shortly after taking off around midnight on May 4-5. All 114 people on board were killed. May 15, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. May 14, 2007 |
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