Airline News - Africa / Middle East.Air Arabia Air Arabia will launch four-times-weekly Sharjah-Kabul service from May 4, four-times-weekly flights to Kochi from May 1 (increasing to daily on May 12) and daily service to Jaipur from May 12. It flies A320s. Apr 18, 2006 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines will lease two 747-400s from Malaysia Airlines for five years to meet capacity demands ahead of the delivery of its 787s. The 747s will be delivered in July. Apr 10, 2006 Gulf Air Gulf Air signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. with SR Technics tech·nic n. 1. technics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process. 2. technics (used with a pl. verb) Technical details, rules, or methods. 3. establishing terms of a five-year, $750 million contract covering MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. 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. of the carrier's fleet of 10 A320s, six A330s, nine A340s and nine 767-300s. SR Technics will establish a $50 million, three-bay hangar and maintenance facility and training center in Oman. Gulf Air moved its MRO work from Abu Dhabi following that government's withdrawal as an investor in the carrier Apr 18, 2006 Gulf Air Oman is the latest destination in the Gulf region to see a major increase in airline activities. Gulf Air itself (50% owned by the Sultanate) is to commence nonstop flights between Muscat/Seeb International Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle from 1 July, with services operating on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. In addition, Gulf Air's summer schedule includes the introduction of new services to Amman, Dammam, Kathmandu, Sana'a, Islamabad and Jakarta. The Bahrain-based carrier recently announced an increase in its services from the UK, with the introduction of double daily services from Heathrow. Our photo shows an Airbus A 330 in the airlines new livery. http://www.gulfairco.com Apr 16, 2006 Gulf Air Gulf Air increased its daily Doha-Bahrain service to five flights per day from two or three effective March 27. Apr 11, 2006 Qatar Airways Qatar Airways boosted frequency on the Doha-Manila route to nine-times-weekly from seven. It uses A330-200s on the route. It also introduced a third daily flight to London Heathrow and increased service to Manchester from five-times-weekly to daily. It now operates 35 flights per week to England, codesharing with bmi on flights to LHR LHR Love-Hate Relationship LHR Lahore (Pakistan) LHR Laser Hair Removal LHR Lawyers for Human Rights LHR Left Hand Reverse (door opening convention) LHR Lung-To-Head Ratio LHR League for Human Rights and MAN. Apr 18, 2006 Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian will increase service to the US from Amman starting next month. It will launch twice-weekly service to Detroit while flights to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK rise to five weekly from four and service to Chicago O'Hare goes to six weekly from three. All flights are aboard A340s. Apr 11, 2006 Saudi Arabian Saudi Arabian Airlines Saudi Arabian Airlines (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية العربية السعودية) is the national airline of Saudi Arabia, based in reportedly plans to float 30% of its shares in an IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. later this year. According to the Arab Air Carriers Organization, the carrier submitted documents to Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority seeking to float 450 million shares. In March, the government approved Saudi Arabian's privatization as part of a series of economic reforms in the country Apr 20, 2006 South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is South Africa's largest domestic and international airline company, with hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It is also known in Afrikaans as Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAL) Despite difficulties, SAA (Systems Application Architecture) A set of interfaces designed to cross all IBM platforms from PC to mainframe. Introduced by IBM in 1987, SAA includes the Common User Access (CUA), the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) and Common Communications seduced by low-cost market. South African Airways will launch a low-cost carrier by year end, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Khaya Ngqula revealed during a ceremony in Johannesburg Monday that saw SAA become a full Star Alliance member. Apr 12, 2006 South African Airways became the first African carrier to join an alliance when it officially was inducted into Star Alliance at ceremonies in Johannesburg yesterday. It is the alliance's 18th member (Swiss International Air Lines Swiss International Air Lines (short: Swiss) is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Kloten Airport (ZRH). joined April 7) and increases the Star network to more than 15,500 daily flights serving 842 destinations in 152 countries. SAA offers access to 21 destinations in Africa and transatlantic service to South Africa. "Membership of this alliance places us amongst the top airlines in the world," CEO Khaya Ngqula said. "Our footprint on the continent reflects our African spirit, qualities that we wish to introduce to the rest of the world." In conjunction with the announcement, SAA unveiled the African Airpass, a fare product for non-African passengers allowing them to build their own intracontinental itineraries with fares based on a fixed per-mile rate of 15 cents. Apr 11, 2006 |
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