Bloomberg Airline passengers may soon be able to put away their IDs and boarding passes at screening lines as the Transportation Security Administration begins an experiment to use fingerprints to ensure people’s identities. Passengers who are enrolled in PreCheck, the TSA program that gives travelers expedited screening, will be able to use their fingerprints at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International and Denver ...

Bloomberg It took about nine months for Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. to win its first buy rating from an analyst. When the upgrade came, it was because of the airline’s cargo operations, not its five-star-rated passenger business. Jefferies Group LLC raised the rating on Cathay’s stock to buy this month, citing signs of a pullback in capacity expansion and improved ...

DUBAI / WAM A UAE official delegation, headed by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has concluded its participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum. The forum was held at the International Telecommunication Union headquarters in Geneva, from June 13-16. During the forum the Khalifa Students Empowerment Programme ‘Aqdar’ won the WSIS Prize for ‘E-Safe School Online ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Musafir.com, the UAE’s first home grown, premium-experience travel website, has signed a new regional GCC agreement with Amadeus, a leading technology partner in the global travel industry, to further enhance its e-commerce offering. The agreement will see Amadeus provide Musafir.com with its industry-leading business intelligence technologies.

Dubai / Emirates Business Saudi Arabia has a pipeline of over $250bn worth of projects under development that have not yet seen their main construction contracts awarded, according to Saudi Arabia 2017: Delivering Vision 2030, a new report from business intelligence service MEED. According to the report, Saudi Arabia’s pipeline of unawarded projects accounts for about 39 per cent of ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Emirates Group and Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, chaired the Supreme Council’s 46th meeting, attended by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Supreme Council of Energy. During the meeting, the council reviewed the strategic projects, initiatives and ...

Dubai / Emirates Business A recent analysis conducted by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed that Dubai’s total date trade amounted to $221.7 million in 2016, of which exports accounted for the largest share ($85.1 million), followed by imports ($72.1 million) and re-exports ($64.5 million). Dubai’s export share of the emirate’s total date trade stood at 38% in ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation has declared the Eid Al Fitr holiday as an official paid holiday for all private sector employees in the UAE, and will take place on the first and second days of Shawwal in the Islamic year 1425. This came in a Ministerial Circular issued by Saqr bin Ghobash Saeed ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), continues its campaign to distribute food assistance to underprivileged families in the governorates of Yemen, as part of its Ramadan humanitarian programme to ease the suffering of the people in Yemen and improve their living conditions. The ERC distributed Iftar meals to mosques and slums in the Tarim District in Yemen’s Hadhramaut ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC), the entity responsible for developing quality infrastructure in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, signed a collaboration agreement with Emirates Post Group (EPG) to verify the accuracy of legal measuring instruments used in Emirates Post Group’s business operations in Abu Dhabi. The partnership agreement was signed by His Excellency Dr ...