Oman Air has placed an order for a number of Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines that will be used to power three Airbus A330s within its fleet
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Sharjah prepares transport station design
The Sharjah public transport authority has completed the second phase of design for the new Central Transport Station, which will be located in the Union Square area adjacent to the emirates King Faisal Mosque
Etihad and GE in big data deal
Etihad Airways will use GE Aviation and Accenture?s sophisticated Taleris software to harvest and analyse gigabytes of data generated by hundreds of sensors working inside its planes
Kapsch to provide safety solutions for Makkah-Madina rail route
GSM-R specialist Kapsch CarrierCom has announced that it has won an operations project to provide safety solutions on the 450km high-speed line between the Saudi Arabian cities of Makkah and Madinah
Emirates plans new aircraft lease deal
Dubai?s Emirates airline plans to lease new Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft from finance company Doric, which will issue US$630mn of bond-type certificates to fund the purchase of the planes