Airline News - Africa / Middle East.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Jul 17, 2006 Airlines Increase Syria Flights To Free Beirut Stranded. Global airlines suspended dozens of flights to Lebanon on Friday and some deployed extra planes to Syria to pick up hundreds of passengers stranded after Israel launched fresh attacks on Beirut Airport. Jul 14, 2006 Etihad Airways Etihad Airways (Arabic: الإتحاد, ʼal-ʻitiħād) is the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates. Etihad is based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE. Etihad Airways, the UAE's national airline, is to fly daily non-stop from Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. to JFK New York New York, state, United StatesNew 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 Terminal 4 from October 26, 2006. The airline already has a three times a week service to Toronto, via Brussels. Flight time is around 14 hours, the service one of a series of introductions from the Gulf area bypassing Heathrow. The new route will be flown by a three-class Airbus A340-500. Trade between the United States and the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. amounted to $10 bn in 2005, making it the second-largest US trading partner in the GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). behind Saudi Arabia. There are also more than 500 American companies in the UAE which are set to benefit from Etihad's daily service. http://www.etihadairways.ae Jul 15, 2006 Qatar Airways BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. addicts, at least those flying to or through Doha, will soon be able to watch BBC World live on their seatback seat·back also seat back n. The back of a chair or other type of seating. TV systems at 35,000 feet. Qatar Airways is to become the first international airline to provide passengers with live streaming of BBC World, the BBC's international 24-hour news and information channel, across multiple regions. The airline has installed onboard satellite television on selected long haul Airbus A330 aircraft to service flights both within and between the Middle East and Europe. Distributed through Showtime Arabia via the Rockwell Collins Tailwind 560 system, BBC World will be seen on 17 aircraft by end of 2006 and on 15 more in 2007. BBC World claims to be the most popular international channel, watched by more viewers each day than any other English language channel across eight Middle Eastern countries. http://www.qatarairways.com Jul 15, 2006 |
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