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Dubai airport offers free movie streaming with ICFLIX

The video-on-demand service is complimentary for all DXB passengers for a trial period of two months

Eid Al Adha: Free parking in Dubai, Metro timings revealed

Public parking in Dubai will be free from Thursday to Sunday

Low cost carrier Norwegian plans Stockholm-Dubai flights

Norwegian has recently shaken up its home European market by offering flights to the US for as little as $65 one-way

Flydubai widens H1 loss as fuel costs weigh on earnings

The airline’s revenues during the first half of 2017 rose 9.9 per cent to Dhs2.5bn

Saudi begins work on Makkah metro

The first phase of the metro stretches 11km

Oman suspends ride hailing app

OTaxi was one of the few ride hailing services available in the sultanate, where Uber and Careem do not operate

Dubai’s Emirates introduces new seat selection fees

The new charges come on top of advanced seat selection fees for some economy fares introduced last year

Saudi says 150,000+ jobs created by barring foreigners from ride app roles

Non-Saudis are barred from working directly for Uber and Careem as drivers

Dubai’s RTA awards contract for 554 hybrid taxis

The RTA plans to convert 50 per cent of all Dubai taxicabs into hybrid vehicles by 2021

Emirates flight from Dubai to Melbourne suffers technical issue

An onward flight to New Zealand was cancelled following the incident

New Saudi carrier flyadeal receives first plane from Dubai Aerospace

Flyadeal will begin operations in September

Cebu Pacific flight from Dubai to Manila cancelled due to ‘technical issue’

Affected passengers will be stranded in Dubai for 24 hours

Passengers sue Boeing for injuries sustained during Emirates crash landing in Dubai

Wisner Law Firm said it was suing on behalf of passengers for psychological and physical injuries they sustained

Dubai’s Emirates sponsors 2018 Ryder Cup

The deal is a renewal of the carrier’s existing European Tour Agreement, which will run until 2021

Dubai International Airport sees busiest month on record in July

An increase in passengers saw the aviation hub beat a previous monthly record set in January

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad delays appointment of new CEO

Etihad appointed Ray Gammell as interim Group CEO in May to replace James Hogan

Dubai Aerospace is now one of the world’s largest aircraft lessors

DAE has completed the acquisition of Dublin-based AWAS

Dubai to begin monitoring heavy vehicles

Older heavy trucks are being fitted with monitoring devices from this month

Emirates to operate extra flights to Jeddah, deploy A380 to Medina for haj

Emirates will operate 45 additional flights to Jeddah and 12 extra flights to Medina from August 17 until September 11

British Airways halts Muscat-London flights due to crew strike

Passengers are being offered alternative bookings via Qatar Airways

Dubai’s RTA to allow motorists to change their licences without classes

It will soon be easier for motorists holding a licence for automatic transmission cars to convert their licences to manual transmission

Etihad exploring options for leisure airline Niki

The Abu Dhabi airline bought Niki from Air Berlin for $351m earlier this year

Etihad expresses ‘disappointment’ as Air Berlin files for insolvency

The Abu Dhabi airline said it cannot offer any additional funding to the struggling German airline

US fighter jet crash landing disrupts flights in Bahrain

The jet suffered a technical failure in one engine

Dubai Taxi Corp awards contract for 125 school buses

The firm plans to increase its bus fleet to 650 by 2024

Emirates president accuses US airlines of seeking to preserve long-haul market “domination”

“They hope to go back to a time when they could extract pricing premiums from US consumers while providing a poor product in return,” Clark said

Emirates increases services to Cairo

Airline to offer four additional weekly flights to the Egyptian capital from October

UAE, India agree to aviation capacity talks

Passenger capacity between the two countries has been fully utilised, according to UAE news agency WAM

Saudi to privatise airports this year

The kingdom is aiming to make its airport operations profitable

More images revealed of air taxis set to begin trials in Dubai this year

Dubai’s RTA has teamed up with German company Volocopter to develop the flying taxis