March, 2019

• 11 March

  Thai Airways to buy 38 new planes to modernise fleet

  

  Bloomberg Thai Airways International Pcl, the nation’s flagship carrier, plans to buy as many as 38 new aircraft to help reduce maintenance costs after losses widened more than fivefold last year amid fierce competition and unpredictable fuel prices. The new aircraft, which are more fuel-efficient, would help trim operating costs and attract customers, President Sumeth Damrongchaitham told reporters in Bangkok. ...

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• 11 March

  Airbus sees 4 orders, 103 cancellations in 2019

  Bloomberg Two months into 2019, Airbus SE has logged cancellations for 103 jetliners and garnered a grand total of four new sales — and those orders were for the A220 plane manufactured in Canada by Bomb- ardier Inc. The deal for the A220s — formerly the Bombardier C Series — with Pacific Ocean carrier Air Vanuatu represented Airbus’s only new ...

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• 11 March

  Airplane pollution soars with no viable plan to rein them in

  

  Bloomberg Environmental activists recoil for a reason when the super-rich fly private jets to forums that preach carbon neutrality. Airplane pollution levels really are going through the stratosphere and nobody seems to have a viable plan to rein them in. While energy generation and agriculture currently dwarf aviation’s 1.3 percent share of all human-caused greenhouse gases, emissions from air travel ...

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• 10 March

  Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade reaches AED1.3trn

  

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s external non-oil trade in 2018 reached AED1.3 trillion despite challenges facing global trade growth resulting from trade tensions between major economic powers and a global growth slowdown that has led to currency rate volatility in developing countries. The latest trade figures show that Dubai is moving forward steadily as a leading international and regional trade hub ...

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• 10 March

  UAE-listed companies distribute AED32 billion in 2018 dividends

  Abu Dhabi / WAM A total of 113 listed public joint stock companies distributed AED32 billion in dividends for 2018, according to data released by the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Financial Market. The largest across the GCC and Mena region, the increased dividends reflect the growth in foreign capital invested in key listed Emirati companies. In further detail, ...

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• 10 March

  UAE to maintain output until oil markets stabilise

  Bloomberg The United Arab Emirates will continue to adjust its oil production until the market rebalances, the Opec member’s energy minister said. “We will continue to deliver on the Opec & non-Opec commitment for voluntary production adjustments, until the global market is re-balanced,” Suhail Al Mazrouei said on Twitter. “UAE compliance for the month of February 2019 will meet, if ...

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• 10 March

  Mohammed bin Rashid, Mohamed bin Zayed receive Special Olympics Flame of Hope Torch

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has affirmed that the UAE has been a long way in empowering and integrating the People of Determination in the transformational drive embraced by the country at all levels. The UAE Vice President made the remarks ...

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• 10 March

  VP, Mohamed open Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, led the opening ceremony of Qasr Al Watan – the nation’s newest cultural landmark housed ...

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• 10 March

  Airport Trade Exhibition offers a key platform for international companies

  

  Dubai / WAM Considerable investment in airport infrastructure expansion in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (Menasa), is attracting companies from across the world to further consolidate their business through participating in Dubai’s Airport Trade Exhibition. The world’s largest annual airport exhibition will return for its 19th year in Dubai this April, with a record 375 exhibitors from ...

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• 10 March

  Sakina Shbib all set to retail her collection from top stores in UAE

  DUBAI / Emirates Business French based high fashion label Sakina Shbib is all set for major expansion in the Middle East and Indian market. After gaining comfortable foothold in the French market she has forayed into the Middle East. It can be seen that a large part of the multibillion dollar Middle East fashion market is dominated by the international ...

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