Arabian aviation thread - 2017

dubaiamman243 · Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:10 pm

Egypt Air to retire 25 aircraft in 2018 and a RFP to lease 45 A319NEO, A320NEO, A330-800/900, B737-8/9, B787-8/9, CS300 and E195-E2 for delivery btw 2018 - 2021.

CanadaFair · Tue Aug 15, 2017 12:25 pm

Wataniya starting Najaf from 23rd and Bahrain from 27th August.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:47 pm

Emirates to fly the A380 to Medina, Saudi Arabia for the upcoming hajj season.

dubaiamman243 · Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:30 am

Etihad will be closing its six spa facility in the business and first class lounge at LHR.

dubaiamman243 · Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:42 pm

BKK will be the inaugural route for FZ upcoming B737-8. Moscow and Prague are rumored to be next.

Clipper101 · Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:53 pm

dubaiamman243 wrote:
BKK will be the inaugural route for FZ upcoming B737-8. Moscow and Prague are rumored to be next.

Based on the newly announced operational cooperation between FZ & EK, aren't all these routes directly colliding with Emirates !

CanadaFair · Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:49 pm

PIA starting Najaf this week, returning to Iraq after 27 years, served Baghdad previously.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:26 am

Etihad will announce a new CEO in the coming weeks.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:40 am

Over 8m passengers used Dubai airport in July. Estimates shows the airport pax traffic will cross 90m by year-end.

dubaiamman243 · Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:04 pm

Kuwait Airways to drop Munich.

dubaiamman243 · Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:58 am

Etihad will be the launch customer of the upcoming B777-8.

dubaiamman243 · Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:59 am

Rumor: A new alliance between Qatar Airways and British Airways will be announced in few days.

IranianMan123 · Sun Aug 27, 2017 2:38 pm

Can we rename this thread middle eastern aviation thread? Could talk about Iranian carriers on this thread then, which I feel would be good because Iran is going to be receiving more new aircraft soon. Just a suggestion.

dubaiamman243 · Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:46 pm

Kuwait Airways will undego a strategic overhaul
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/industri ... d-minister

Monty1988 · Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:13 pm

Jazeera Airways survived a catastrophe yesterday after colliding with Ministry of defense air balloon in mid air north of Kuwait link : http://www.alarabiya.net/ar/aswaq/finan ... D9%8A.html

CanadaFair · Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:10 pm

Air Berlin to drop Abu Dhabi.

CanadaFair · Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:15 pm

IranianMan123 wrote:
Can we rename this thread middle eastern aviation thread? Could talk about Iranian carriers on this thread then, which I feel would be good because Iran is going to be receiving more new aircraft soon. Just a suggestion.

Why not start an Iran aviation thread?

dubaiamman243 · Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:00 pm

Norwegian plans B737 MAX service Stockholm-Dubai during Winter'17.

CanadaFair · Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:08 pm

Thai to upgauge Dubai to 772 from A330 for winter.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:10 pm

MEA leased a B787 from Qatar Airways.

CanadaFair · Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:05 pm

dubaiamman243 wrote:
MEA leased a B787 from Qatar Airways.

For how long.?

olba · Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:18 pm

CanadaFair wrote:
dubaiamman243 wrote:
MEA leased a B787 from Qatar Airways.

For how long.?

IT was retuned. It operated for 2 days

CanadaFair · Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:52 pm

Qantas to drop Dubai in favour of Singapore-London again from March.

qf789 · Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:54 pm

A reminder to all users that when stating facts or newsworthy bulletins a link must be included in your post. Failure to do so may result in your post being deleted.

CanadaFair · Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:05 pm

I didn't seem a concern till Qantas post came up and seeing your username makes one wonder why suddenly is an issue.

qf789 · Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:12 pm

CanadaFair wrote:
I didn't seem a concern till Qantas post came up and seeing your username makes one wonder why suddenly is an issue.

It has nothing to do with Qantas, there are multiple posts in this thread without links provided

dubaiamman243 · Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:44 am

Flydubai has taken delivery of its second B737-8.

CanadaFair · Sun Sep 03, 2017 12:35 pm

Korean Air will upgauge Dubai to 772 from A332 for winter according to airline route.

CanadaFair · Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:39 pm

Emirates are down to last 747F, source planespotters.

dubaiamman243 · Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:54 pm

Emirates will receive its 100th A380 in November.

dubaiamman243 · Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:02 pm

Qatar Airways will fly the A350-1000 to Dallas.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:07 pm

Qatar Airways will fly the B787 to Boston in October.

CanadaFair · Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:39 pm

Watanya return to Egypt with new destination Sohag from 10th September, previously served Cairo and Sharm el Sheikh.

DOHspotter · Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:25 pm

According to Airlineroute Lufthansa will end its daily flight to DOH, with the last flight occurring on 27th of October.
http://twitter.com/Airlineroute/status/ ... 3934123008

dubaiamman243 · Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:16 pm

Emirates wants to go 3 daily A380 to AMS.

dubaiamman243 · Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:54 pm

Etihad drops business classs pyjamas.

worldranger · Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:07 pm

STC - 787/350 Dubai air show order - "off the table"

dubaiamman243 · Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:22 pm

Flydubai B737MAX to prague.

CanadaFair · Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:57 pm

Salam Air move to Dubai from DWC in November.

dubaiamman243 · Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:10 am

Saudia will order 20 B777X at Dubai Airshow

Eyad89 · Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:22 am

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Saudia will order 20 B777X at Dubai Airshow

Interesting. I thought Saudia would reduce its widebody orders as it will through privatization in the coming years. Surprisingly, this makes Saudia one of the biggest 777 customers.

dubaiamman243 · Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:16 am

Emirates is in discussions with the Philippines Authorities for additional flights or flying the A380 into Manila International.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:12 am

Emirates will be reducing its non-stop flights to JFK from 3 to 2 daily from 18OCT to 22NOV.

Slash787 · Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:13 am

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Flydubai B737MAX to prague.

Any Idea when Flydubai will fly to Vienna? They mentioned before that they were waiting for the MAX to expand routes further into Europe.

In total they have 3 Max, so where are the other 2 flying to?

dubaiamman243 · Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:51 pm

Emirates will add 3-weekly flights to Stockholm in addition to its daily flights.

dubaiamman243 · Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:58 pm

Flydubai will launch flights to Podgorica, Montenegro starting from 01NOV.

worldranger · Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:28 pm

Emirates has increased the frequency of flights between Dubai and Tunis from six, to seven a week, starting 30th October 2017,

dubaiamman243 · Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:28 pm

Rumor: A new airline will be announced in Saudi Arabia named 'Sky dream'

CanadaFair · Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:36 pm

Condor starting charters to Dubai in winter from Basle/Mulhouse and six German cities, DWC will be used.

CanadaFair · Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:29 pm

Casablanca gets mainline Air Canada service from June.

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