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February 15, 2016 News
Manila / Bloomberg Philippine Airlines is considering making an announcement of new plane orders as plane makers Airbus Group SE and Boeing Co. seek to revive sales in a region battling overcapacity. The flag carrier is considering Wednesday for its announcement, President Jaime Bautista said in an interview. Bautista declined to comment on what model the carrier has chosen. The ...
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February 15, 2016 News
Kuala Lumpur / Bloomberg Malaysia Airlines Bhd. is on track to return to profitability by 2018, helped by job cuts and route changes undertaken as the company reeled from two high-profile plane crashes in 2014. The airline’s restructuring effort is proceeding as planned and the company is finished laying off employees, Mueller said in an interview on Monday with Bloomberg ...
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February 15, 2016 News
SINGAPORE/ AFP Civilian drones are increasingly becoming a “real and growing threat” to the safety of commercial aviation, industry group IATA warned, calling for regulations to be put in place before any serious accidents occur. Tony Tyler, director-general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said the threat posed by unmanned aerial vehicles is still evolving as people are only ...
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February 15, 2016 News
Bloomberg Last year was one of the safest for airlines with the number of fatal accidents falling by two thirds – if you excluded more than 300 deaths resulting from a pilot suicide and possible terror attack. There were four fatal accidents, all involving turboprop aircraft, in 2015, down from 12 a year earlier, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) ...
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February 15, 2016 Business
Our Correspondent EMIRATES BUSINESS Dubai is by far the epicenter of cultural exchange, landmarks that can be seen from space and a place where the world’s cuisine gathers in a gastronomical extravaganza. As the world braces for the showdown leading to Expo 2020 which is set to take place in Dubai, the construction industry is at a frenzy creating new ...
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February 15, 2016 Business
Our Correspondent / Emirates Business Gulf is considered as one of the fastest growing perfume industry in the world, speeding up the growth of the industry has been spearheaded by Rasasi perfumes, one of the leading regional oriental fragrance company. Founded in 1979 by Abdul Razzak Kalsekar, the perfume company has been into existence for over four decades now. Rasasi ...
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February 14, 2016 News
DUBAi / WAM With the approval of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ministers of the 12th Cabinet of the UAE government took the oath on Sunday before Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at Mushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi, in the presence ...
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February 14, 2016 News
Dubai / WAM According to Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, the population of Dubai is expected to increase to five million by 2030. Lootah was speaking on the final day of the fourth World Government Summit in Dubai, in which his speech addressed the issues of the consequences of an increasing population and depleting natural resources, an increase ...
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February 14, 2016 News
Bloomberg Dubai stocks led a rally across Gulf Arab equity markets after oil jumped the most in seven years on Friday. The DFM General Index rose for the first time in four days on Sunday, gaining 1.6 percent at 10:44 am local time. Emaar Properties PJSC, the developer of the world’s tallest skyscraper and the company with the biggest weighting ...
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February 14, 2016 News
ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has received a formal request from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to join the High-level Advisory Group for ‘Every Woman – Every Child’ affiliated with the UN, which was announced by the UN Secretary-General last month in Davos. This came in a letter received by HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, ...
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