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July 10 - Airport International Group (AIG), the Jordanian company responsible for the rehabilitation, expansion and operation of Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA), welcomed Iberia's first flight to Amman from Madrid this week. Iberia, the national carrier of Spain, will operate a weekly Madrid-Amman flight every Saturday aboard its Airbus 319 aircraft during the summer season. Flights will be added to…
July 8 - Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud on Tuesday kept up his campaign to improve Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport. The minister, who paid a surprise visit to the airport, expressed his displeasure over the failure of officials to ban smoking in the lobbies despite his numerous calls to do so. Abboud also expressed his discontent over the failed attempts to set up a special office for taxi drivers…
July 7 - The Airport Security Department of Dubai Police has announced that it will not use full-body X-ray scanners on passengers. The use of these scanners hampers the movement of passengers and invades their privacy, Brigadier Ahmed bin Thani, Director of the Airport Security Department of the Dubai Police, said at a press conference on Monday. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has…
July 7 - The two international airports in Dubai are considering the use of face recognition cameras to enhance security. The present network of cameras will also be upgraded with the installation of the most modern software, said Brigadier Pilot Ahmad Mohammad Bin Thani, Director-General of Dubai Police’s General Department of Airport Security, at a press conference held yesterday to announce summer…
July 5 - Dubai Duty Free has announced a 16 percent increase in sales with turnover reaching AED 2.185 billion ($607 million) for the first six months of the year. Commenting on the first half sales figures, Colm McLoughlin, Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free said: “We were pleased that 2010 began well for Dubai Duty Free as we have seen an increase in consumer spending across all categories. Currently…
Priority Pass, the world’s leading independent airport lounge program, announces that its members have rated the Dilmun Lounge, Bahrain as its Lounge of the Year 2010 for the Middle East and Africa region. This is the fifth year in succession that this lounge has received an award from Priority Pass - which means every single year since it opened. “The survey gets a huge response from our…
June 30 - The Muscat International Airport has reported an increase in passengers handled in the first five months of the year. Arrivals rose by 12 percent to 773,771, compared to 691,477 in the same period of 2009, while the count of departing passengers grew by 16 percent to 761,471 from 657,572. The growth was attributed to the hike in number of flights by several airlines operating to Muscat, such as…
June 28 - The daughter of fashion mogul Paulo Gucci, is facing a legal challenge from the Gucci group after she announced plans to open a chain of hotels starting with one in Dubai later this year. Elisabetta Gucci unveiled plans earlier this month to open an 87-suite hotel in Dubai under the brand name of EG Hotels by Elisabetta Gucci. The Gucci Group said that it has had no involvement in the project,…
June 28 - The arrival of the summer holiday season has seen an sharp increase in the numbers of travelers coming to Kuwait International Airport (KIA) to complete their travel documents before departing on vacation. As part of their efforts to maintain order and provide a smooth travel process for the large volume of passengers passing through KIA, officials from the Directorate of General Civil Aviation…
June 28 - Five local and international firms are eyeing a contract worth in excess of $100 million linked to the development of a greenfield airport at Duqm on Oman's Wusta coast. Bids closed here last week for the key phase II package of the domestic airport project centring on the construction of airfield infrastructure. Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), Larsen & Toubro (Oman), Hanjin Heavy Industries…
June 25 2010 - The Hariri International Airport in Beirut, has registered a growth in air transport activity in the first five months of this year, said Bank Audi’s Lebanon Weekly Monitor. The number of passengers, planes, and loaded and unloaded freight has grown significantly since the start of this year. Air traffic movements increased by 22.9 percent while passengers at the airport went up by 18.8…
June 24 - Lebanese Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud warned airport authorities of dire consequences if the tourism police were not allowed inside Beirut international Airport to provide support to tourists. “If we don’t reach any satisfying results in this regard during the few coming days, I will be holding a press conference to announce the problems I have faced since I came to the tourism ministry,” he said.…
June 23 - The Abu Dhabi International Airport hopes to hit a growth rate of 11 per cent this year, said Ahmed Mohammed Al Haddabi, Senior Vice President, Airport Operations of Abu Dhabi Airport Company (ADAC). "Last year our growth rate was about 7.3 per cent handling nearly 10 million passengers in 2009. This year we will cross the milestone of ten million passengers by significant levels,'' said Ahmed at…
June 22 - Dubai World Central Al Maktoum Airport opened for cargo yesterday with the first Emirates Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft arriving from Hong Kong. The airport is the largest in the world and will officially open its first phase of cargo operations on June 27 while passenger operations will begin next year. The airport has been designed to accommodate more than 12 million tons of cargo and 160…
June 22- The Lebanon airport has increased the airport tax by 10 per cent which, Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud stated, will give rise to modern advertising promotions for the country. The tax was endorsed by the cabinet on Friday. Abboud added that the tourism ministry’s budget for 2010 had gone up to $3 million as opposed to $1 million in 2009. The new campaign would focus on Russia, Germany, Austria,…
June 6 - Fujairah Airport is close to signing an agreement with charter airlines to fly German tourists directly into the northern emirate. A spokesman for Fujairah International Airport said “We’re talking with two operators and planning to sign a contract in the next few weeks.” The flights, which are expected to start in the middle of October, will give the Fujairah economy a boost. Fujairah has many…
June 5 - Dubai's newest airport, Al Maktoum International, will start passenger operations in March 2011, said an airport’s senior executive this week. “The planning date is spring of 2011 – so we’re looking at the end of March for the start of passenger flights,” said Dubai World Central Vice President for Cargo and Logistics, Andrew Walsh. “Right now, the passenger terminal in the final stages of fit-out.…
June 4 - Dubai Airports Company that operates Dubai International Airport has announced that it will ban all older aircraft from October 31 in a bid to reduce noise and emission pollutions. The company will withdraw older generation aircrafts that do not conform to international noise and emission standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). "ICAO classified Chapter 1 and 2…
