Arabian aviation thread - 2017

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:38 pm

Flydubai will announce new cabins for the upcoming B737MAX aircraft.

TheGeordielad · Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:42 pm

CanadaFair wrote:
Flydubai website is not displayiing Kandahar in bookings, when did they drop it?

I don't know when but I just saw a video of a Flydubai take off from Kandahar airport and it was from December 2016 so it wasn't too long ago.

dubaiamman243 · Fri Jun 02, 2017 5:11 pm

Emirates has signed a memorandum of understanding with King Fahad International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
The airline and the airport will explore more ways for cooperation and take the services offered to a new level.
The airport has proposed to Emirates to start international flights from the city.

King Fahad Airport in Dammam is the only airport in the kingdom to have an open skies agreement.

CanadaFair · Fri Jun 02, 2017 5:51 pm

Flydubai also ended:

Cimkent in Kazakastan

Nejran and Sakaka in Saudi

Ufa and Novosibirsk in Russia

Sulaymania in Iraq

Clipper101 · Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:34 pm

Royal Wings (RJA subsidiary) will be launching direct flights twice a week between Aqaba & Dubai starting June 8th. This is in addition to its existing direct flights Aqaba - Cairo & Aqaba - Beirut.

hisham · Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:43 pm

Traffic in BEY is up 30% in April compared to last year. A rather surprising result for BEY given that the numbers were flat for the first 3 month compared to last year. The airport handled 720472 passengers in April 2017 compared to 557419 in April 2017. Total aircraft movements are up 7.1% for the same period. (Source Airport website).

Any ideas what can cause such a wild fluctuation? The airport has been operating as the de facto airport for both Lebanon and Syria for a number of years. So nothing new there. I've noticed more airlines switching to wide-bodies recently including Ethiopian (767/788/77L), Qatar (330/77W/788), Kuwait (330/77W/340). All those switches were many months before the summer season.

Hisham.

CanadaFair · Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:13 pm

Salam Air seem to offer traditional Omani turban option for pilots and no ties https://twitter.com/SalamAir/status/867 ... 2439093248 dosent look like a Sikh turban.

CanadaFair · Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:52 pm

All Iranian carriers are to suspend service to Najaf from 1st July due to high airport fees.

The Association of Iranian Airlines (AIRA) announced that all Iranian airlines will suspend their services to Najaf in Iraq as of July due to exceptional high airport fees. Since 2010, all flights landing at Al Najaf International Airport must pay a fee of $85 in addition to the existing fees. Furthermore, the airlines are obliged to pay $15 per passenger apart from the $10 per passenger paid by themselves upon arrival at the airport..

http://www.aviationiran.com/2017/06/11/ ... UF0fdxRXIU

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jun 15, 2017 1:17 am

Rumor: Australia to ban Qatar Airways flights to the country.

Source: UAE based news twitter account.

Clipper101 · Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:14 am

Clipper101 wrote:
Royal Wings (RJA subsidiary) will be launching direct flights twice a week between Aqaba & Dubai starting June 8th. This is in addition to its existing direct flights Aqaba - Cairo & Aqaba - Beirut.

Here is the news link from RJA:

http://rj.com/en/news/title/3865.html

the flight to operate initially twice weekly (Sunday & Thursday) from AQJ to DWC now commencing 15th June.

CanadaFair · Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:33 am

Quite a few Iran carriers at NJF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Najaf_ ... al_Airport

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Rumor: Australia to ban Qatar Airways flights to the country.

Source: UAE based news twitter account.

Not likely http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-up ... 57a7e8c95a

CanadaFair · Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:33 pm

Qatar Amiri are to take ex- Abu Dabi 747-8 BBJ.

Salam Air didnt start Multan.

CanadaFair · Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:24 am

Salam did start Multan in May but its been suspended.

Wataniya recieved its AOC on 19 June, and plans Bosnia service.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:55 pm

Etihad scraps free chauffeur drive for first and business class passengers in all cities except Abu Dhabi

CanadaFair · Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:39 pm

Flydubai shows resumed Iranian destination Ahwaz.

CanadaFair · Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:34 pm

Wataniya recieved first of two A320s from Air Arabia in a bland refreshed look.http://www.kuna.net.kw/ViewPics.aspx?sr ... id=1466021 operations to nearby places to start soon.

dubaiamman243 · Sat Jun 24, 2017 1:19 am

Italy fines Etihad over 'no-show' ticket rules.

CanadaFair · Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:36 pm

Air Arabia dropped plan to serve Trabzon it was to start yesterday, its not even listed in website .

dubaiamman243 · Sun Jun 25, 2017 3:03 pm

James Hogan has officially departed Etihad

sadiqutp · Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:57 am

EY announce summer expansion Between AUH and ME and North African as follows:

DMM: 3x daily to 4x daily from 9Jul with A320
AMM: 1x daily to 2x daily between 25Jun-30Sep with A320
BEY: additional 4x weekly between 1Aug-10Sep with A320 and other flights upgrades to 787
CAI: 4x daily to 5x daily between 1Aug-10Sep with A320
RBA: additional 1x weekly between 6Aug-3Sep with A333
CMN: equipment upgrade from A333 to A346 between 1Aug-10Sep

User001 · Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:06 pm

Seems Kuwait Airways still intent on expansion.

Chicago or Washington wanted in the US, and Seoul, Manchester and Sarajevo all considered.

Given KU currently cannot serve the US direct at the moment, I wonder if the fact Manchester is in the list means ORD or IAD could be served via MAN, but in both directions rather than 1 direction like the KU117.

KU did plan on moving the KU117 to MAN earlier this year, so KWI-MAN-ORD/IAD-MAN-KWI could be a way to fill something like the B777 with 2 routes in one go?

dubaiamman243 · Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:06 am

One A340-500 is remaining for Etihad.

CanadaFair · Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:23 am

CanadaFair wrote:
Air Arabia dropped plan to serve Trabzon it was to start yesterday, its not even listed in website .

it was started but dosent appear is some version of its websites .

aldrigsomandre · Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:47 am

CanadaFair wrote:
CanadaFair wrote:
Air Arabia dropped plan to serve Trabzon it was to start yesterday, its not even listed in website .

it was started but dosent appear is some version of its websites .

It's back on their system, I think there was a temporary problem.

dubaiamman243 · Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:46 pm

Saudia is rumored to order 30 B779.

CanadaFair · Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:31 pm

Salam Air started Karachi last week, their third Pakistani destination.

dubaiamman243 · Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:01 am

Royal Jordanian will lease a B737 from SAA

dubaiamman243 · Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:23 am

Emirates will retire 3 B773s, A6-EM/N/S. They are currently at DXB in white livery.

dubaiamman243 · Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:58 am

Flydubai will introduce new uniforms for its employees

dubaiamman243 · Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:03 am

Emirates will go double daily to Brussels from 29OCT17.

EK181 14:20 - 18:45
EK182 20:15 - 05:55

dubaiamman243 · Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:23 pm

RJ received its first A330F

ME720 · Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:19 pm

The double daily EK flight Will be bad News for the TG flight out of BRU (only direct link with south east Asia from BRU) and to the SN new direct flight to BOM. QR amd EY loads from BRU might feel the pinch as Well..

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:38 am

FZ first B737MAX will arrive in September '17

Flyingsottsman · Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:34 pm

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Rumor: Australia to ban Qatar Airways flights to the country.

Source: UAE based news twitter account.

Have not heard of this rumor, Qatar have just started flying A380s into Melbourne and hardly anything has been said about the Qatar v rest of the Middle east crisis.
So down here that is just what it is just a rumor.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:10 pm

Qatar Airways delay delivery of 4 A350s.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:02 pm

Saudia to launch AMS and Marrakesh

Clipper101 · Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:26 pm

Royal Jordanian seems to have joined the string of middle eastern airlines lifting the ban on laptops on US flights:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... us-flights

boefan · Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:31 pm

Clipper101 wrote:
Royal Jordanian seems to have joined the string of middle eastern airlines lifting the ban on laptops on US flights:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... us-flights

Kuwait Airways also

https://twitter.com/KuwaitAirways/statu ... 2913593344

CanadaFair · Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:56 pm

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Saudia to launch AMS and Marrakesh

Amsterdam is a former route, and current cargo station.

dubaiamman243 · Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:51 am

Saudia phased out its first A320 and its currently heading to Jordsn

olba · Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:22 pm

Lebanese Plane Spotters posted on their Facebook page that MEA will start Madrid in 2018

dubaiamman243 · Tue Jul 11, 2017 3:01 pm

Air Canada will launch flights to Beirut and MEA will codeshare.

sadiqutp · Tue Jul 11, 2017 3:26 pm

dubaiamman243 wrote:
Air Canada will launch flights to Beirut and MEA will codeshare.

AC ceo just tweeted that the federal government didn't approve the route for security reasons

ME720 · Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:12 pm

MEA commences Madrid S18

dubaiamman243 · Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:56 pm

Emirates increases Cairo to 3 daily

GlenP · Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:18 pm

It's being reported by Al Ahram Online that MS expects the US electronics ban to be lifted next week.

Probably a case of wait and see.

(See: http://tinyurl.com/y8l6m6xw )

No mention of any of the affected points of origin having the ban lifted, on all flights, not specific carriers, by the UK authorities as yet.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 13, 2017 6:40 am

Etihad drops Venice. Last flight on 29OCT17

CanadaFair · Thu Jul 13, 2017 7:35 am

Air Arabia started Sohar few days back, its third destination in Oman.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:20 am

Emirates will go double A380 to Moscow.

dubaiamman243 · Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:24 am

Emirates to wet lease an A330F from Etihad.

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