January 2022

Air Seychelles

Air Seychelles Ranked 3rd In Africa’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award 2022

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Victoria (Seychelles): Air Seychelles’ fleet of seven aircraft comprising two Airbus A320neos and five DHC-6 Twin Otter-400 series, with an average age of 4.3 years, has been ranked as the third youngest fleet in Africa by ch-aviation. The award ceremony, held virtually on Monday (January 17), dedicated to airlines across the globe keeping a young, […]

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IATA Appoints Frederic Leger As SVP For Commercial Products & Services

IATA Appoints Frederic Leger As SVP For Commercial Products & Services

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Geneva: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has appointed Frederic Leger as the association’s Senior Vice President for Commercial Products and Services. Leger served in the role on an ad interim basis since July 2021, when IATA’s Commercial Products and Services Division was created as part of an internal restructuring. He reports to Willie Walsh,

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Airbus

First EGNOS V3 Test Signal Broadcast By Eutelsat E5WB Satellite

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Toulouse: Airbus, with its key partners Indra and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/IEEC, and the EGNOS V3 stakeholders the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Eutelsat, have successfully completed the first test signal broadcast of the European Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) EGNOS V3 respecting the Single Frequency

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International Space Station

International Space Station Connected Via Airbus’ SpaceDataHighway

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Munich: The Airbus’ SpaceDataHighway – developed with the support of ESA – provides broadband connectivity services between the International Space Station (ISS) and the Earth. With the Columbus Ka-band (ColKa) terminal now installed and fully tested on-board the ISS, a SpaceDataHighway satellite will start to relay data via a bi-directional link in real time between

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Airbus, 3 Others Jointly Studying Connectivity Services from High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS)

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Tokyo: Airbus, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) jointly announced that they have begun studying the feasibility of collaborating on future high-altitude platform stations (HAPS)-based connectivity services as part of a future space-based wireless connectivity ecosystem. Launched with a memorandum of understanding (MOU),

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Willie Walsh, Director General , IATA. Photo: IATA

IATA: Air Travel Improved in November 2021, But Omicron Raises Concerns

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Geneva: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that the recovery in air travel continued in November 2021, prior to the emergence of Omicron. International demand sustained its steady upward trend as more markets reopened. Domestic traffic, however, weakened, largely owing to strengthened travel restrictions in China. Because comparisons between 2021 and 2020 monthly

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Formula E

Saudia Airlines Launches ‘Take Your Seat’ Campaign For Formula E World Championship In Diriyah

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Diriyah (Saudi Arabia): The world’s first all-electric motorsport series, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, is set to return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia later this month (January 28, 29) for the start of its eighth season and, as the Official Airline Partner of the all-electric street racing series, Saudia airlines is launching

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Texel Air

Bahrain: Texel Air Launches Middle East’s First Boeing 737-800BCF

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Manama: Texel Air, an established airline and MRO based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, on Sunday (January 16) celebrated the launch of the latest addition to its fleet and the very first for the region, a 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF). Present at the launch ceremony were senior government and aviation industry leaders alongside Texel

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Saudi Arabia: GACA Issues Classification of Air Carriers, Airports For December

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Jeddah: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has issued an index for the classification of air carriers and airports based on the number of complaints submitted by travellers to the authority during the month of December 2021. GACA revealed the total number of complaints lodged by passengers on air carriers during the month

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General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)

IATA Renews International Accreditation of Saudi Academy of Civil Aviation

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Jeddah: The Saudi Academy of Civil Aviation, an affiliate of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) received a certificate of renewal of its accreditation at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as an internationally accredited training center (ATC). The Academy confirmed that this achievement reflects the Kingdom’s weight in the field of civil aviation

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