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United Airlines to stop flying to Dubai, blames oversupply

The American airline will cancel the Washington DC- Dubai route from end-January 2016

Etihad Rail receives approval to begin stage one commercial operations

Stage one will transport sulphur from Shah and Habshan to the port of Ruwais on two daily trains

Iran’s aviation industry poised for take off ahead of sanction lift

Boeing and Airbus may be rubbing their hands at the prospect of a revitalised Iranian airline industry but Gulf airlines are happy scooping up business in the interim as the world

The business of private jets

Despite some challenges, the outlook for the Middle Eastern private aviation market remains robust

Emirates launches Dubai service to Yinchuan and Zhengzhou

The airline will offer flights to the two cities on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday

Etihad Airways’ passenger numbers grow by 17% in 2015

The airline carried around 17.4 million passengers last year

Dubai taxi fares increased by 5%

This is the second increase in taxi tariffs in Dubai in the last 12 months

Alstom begins train production for Riyadh Metro

Alstom’s Katowice plant in Poland will manufacture 69 of the metro train-sets with delivery set to begin in 2017

In pictures: 10 new cars launched at the 2015 Dubai International Motor Show

New models were unveiled by several top carmakers at the Dubai International Motor show

Canadian planemaker Bombardier says CS100 aircraft testing almost 100% complete

The company said it is on track to have the aircraft certified this year with Transport Canada

Air Canada begins new direct service between Toronto and Dubai

The thrice-weekly service will be operated on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Uber to invest $250m in MENA region to boost growth

The platform launched two years ago in the UAE and currently operates in 13 cities across the region

GE opens new aviation tech centre in Dubai as part of industrial internet push

The new centre began operations three weeks ago and will work on developing localised digital solutions for airlines

Etihad expands Saudi network through codeshare partner flynas

Saudi carrier flynas will begin a new five-times-per-week service between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi from December 16

Emirates, flydubai stop flying over Sinai peninsula after Russian plane crash

The crash on Saturday killed all the 224 people on board

Abu Dhabi airport passenger traffic up 18% in nine months of 2015

The airport saw the steepest growth in passenger traffic from the US routes, with a 44 per cent surge in travellers

Delta cancels Dubai-Atlanta flights as subsidy row heats up

The cancellation of the service will be effective from February 11, 2016, the airline said

Dubai’s Aramex targets acquisitions in range of $150m

Acquisitions are expected to help increase the firm’s presence in growth markets

Etihad Rail awaiting regulatory nod to start operations on Stage 1

Authorities are also in the final stage of tender evaluation process for the second phase of Etihad Rail, an official said

Dubai airport passenger traffic up 8.2% in September

The airport’s traffic during the first nine months of 2015 rose 12 per cent to around 58.7 million passengers

Kuwait Airways says looking for partners as expansion phase begins

The airline’s CEO said agreements with partners could go beyond code shares

Qatar Airways to expand its cargo trade – CEO

The airline is planning to have a second cargo terminal in Doha

Etihad Airways CEO sees more legal action in Air Berlin code-share dispute

The German government has said it will revoke approval for code-sharing by Etihad and Air Berlin on a number of routes which it says are not covered by the current bilateral air services deal

Emirates to operate one-off A380 flight to Sao Paulo

The flight will mark Emirates’ eighth year of operations in Brazil

Government approves restructuring of Oman Air

The government will take an additional OMR 138.1m ($359m) worth of shares in the airline in exchange for a cash injection which occurred last year

Emirates signs codeshare deal with Alaska Airlines

The codeshare agreement will help passengers connect easily to 49 US cities

Etihad to launch daily A380 services to Melbourne from 2016

Deploying the A380 will increase the total number of two-way seats on the route by 26 per cent to over 11,500 per week

Flydubai begins operations from Dubai World Central

The carrier will offer flights to destinations such as Amman, Beirut, Chittagong, Doha, Kathmandu, Kuwait and Muscat from DWC

Saudi carrier flynas in talks to purchase four new aircraft – CEO

The airline currently has about 26 aircraft in its fleet with the average age of eight and half years

Saudi transport projects going ahead as scheduled -minister

Minister of Transport Abdullah al-Muqbil said the government had allocated SAR 200bn to be spent on public transport plans