Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Operating Officer (COO) Michael Hickey will step down from Europe’s biggest discount carrier after a management misstep resulted in the cancellation of more than 20,000 flights into next summer. Hickey will step down at the end of October, the airline said. A search to identify and recruit a successor is underway. Ryanair’s botched rosters has ...

Bloomberg Oman pledged to create 25,000 public sector jobs by December, a move that risks adding to a budget gap that was the Gulf’s widest last year. The government will follow up with additional measures to address the lack of jobs in the sultanate, the state-run Oman News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the cabinet’s decision a day earlier. Unemployment ...

Dubai / WAM In line with its mandate to position Dubai as the global capital of the Islamic Economy, the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC), in partnership with Dubai Exports, the export promotion agency of Dubai Economy, recently led a multi-sector trade mission to Australia. The aim of the high level and diverse group was to capitalise on the ...