airBaltic Training, subsidiary of the Latvian airline airBaltic, has concluded training on the Boeing 737 full flight simulator and has sold the simulator to a company in France. Pauls Cālītis, airBaltic Chief Operations Officer: “airBaltic will be operating 50 Airbus A220-300 aircraft already by early 2024, meaning that the crew training needs of the company will significantly outweigh the current capacity. By concluding Boeing 737 training, we will be able to …

Skills Valley |Institute of Hospitality Management| organized National Mango Day 2021 at Skills Valley North Campus. The event was attended by more than 500 people including students, faculty, management of the institute, Industry professionals, government officials etc. More than 100 students of Skills Valley North & Rehnuma Campus participated in a unique competition. Participants made 150+ value added dishes made …

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, begins the summer season with 80% of its pre-pandemic destinations as it continues to resume operations and restore services to cities of its original 2019 destination network. The airline has also announced that it has successfully launched all of its seasonal destinations for the summer of 2021 with direct flights …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, today launched its inaugural flight to Vienna, the City of Music, the first of a new twice-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and the Austrian capital. Flight EY147 departed Abu Dhabi International Airport at 7.30am and is expected to land in Vienna Airport at approximately 11.20am today, where it will …

DUBAI: Transguard – a division of Emirates Group Security (EGS) which provides highly secure logistics for valuable cargo and luxury goods – has received the prestigious Dubai Quality Gold Award (DQA), the highest accolade for business excellence in the region. The awards recognise organisational excellence in the Middle East, and are organised by Dubai’s Department of Economic Development under the patronage of …

News Desk DUBAI: Union Coop – the largest consumer cooperative in the UAE, has opened its new center consisting the 22nd hypermarket branch and 25 stores in Al Barsha South, at a cost of AED 60 Million, with a building area of ​​232,000 sq. ft. With the opening of the new center, the number of Union Coop hypermarkets in Dubai …

flyadeal, the low-cost Jeddah-based airline owned by Saudi Arabian Airlines, has taken delivery of a brand new A320neo, the first out of 30 to be delivered in the next 3 years. The aircraft is the first out of 65 A320neo family aircraft ordered by Saudi Arabian Airline at the Paris Airshow 2019, and will join flyadeal’s all Airbus fleet. Powered …

flydubai, the Dubai-based airline, announced the start of its three-times weekly service to Sohag International Airport (HMB) from 25 July. The flights to and from Sohag will operate via a short stop in Sharm El Sheikh. This will bring the number of points flydubai operates to in Egypt to three including Alexandria Borg El Arab International Airport (HBE) and Sharm …

Path-breaking tennis ace Sania Mirza and cricketing star Shoaib Malik have officially been granted the 10-year UAE Golden Visa.  Sania, known to have single-handedly put Indian women’s tennis on the global map, is currently in London for Wimbledon 2021, she progressed to the second round in the women’s doubles event and made it to the third round of mixed doubles …

As the eyes of sporting enthusiasts around the world turn to Tokyo, a group of very special champions are making their way to the Japanese capital on special flights operated by Emirates. Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, is operating eight charter flights to fly 247 horses from Liege to Tokyo. The first flight with 36 dressage horses has …