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ISSUE TWO: AUGUST-OCTOBER 2009<br /> THE MAGAZINE FOR AEROSPACE PROFESSIONALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA<br /> www.arabianaerospace.aero<br /> GULF’S<br /> SOVEREIGN<br /> FLIGHT TEST SPECIAL REPORT<br /> PAGE 46<br /> DEFENCE AIR TRANSPORT FOCUS<br /> The story Majali on<br /> behind leaving<br /> the F-15 SE Royal<br /> and Saudi Jordanian<br /> PAGE 19 PAGE 22<br /> Kuwait –<br /> getting<br /> back to<br /> business<br /> PAGE 52BOEING MD-87ER VIP FOR SALE<br /> A GREAT WAY TO FLY<br /> Are you co<a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=1">ISSUE TWO: AUGUST-OCTOBER 2009 THE MAGAZINE F</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=2">BOEING MD-87ER VIP FOR SALE A GREAT WAY TO FLY </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=3">BOEING MD-87ER VIP FOR SALE FEEL AT HOME WHILE ON</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=4">As leaders in global handling and flight support, </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=5">Publishedby TIMESAerospaceLimited </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=6">Global Aviation Law Firm of the Year (2009)1 </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=7">contents ISSUE 2 | AUGUST – OCTOBER 2009 </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=8">business brief daily news updates on www.arabiana</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=9"> business brief daily news updates on www.arabiana</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=10"> business brief daily news updates on www.arabiana</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=11"> business brief daily news updates on www.arabiana</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=12">DEFENCE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=13"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=14"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=15">DEFENCE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=16">DEFENCE An Algerian Desert Merlin. </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=17"> ROTOR POWER AsupgradedEgypti</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=18">DEFENCE Rejected Algerian MiGs equip elite</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=19">SPECIAL FEATURE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=20"> XDEXFXEXNXCXE CONTINUEDFROMPAGE19 orders,keep</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=21"> SPECIAL FEATURE 50</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=22">AIR TRANSPORT The new CEO for Gulf Air takes ov</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=23"> Transforming commercial aviation. It’s in our pow</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=24">AIR TRANSPORT GETTINGTHE Airlines throughout t</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=25"> ENVIRONMENT GREEN FLIGHT problem will be find</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=26">AIR TRANSPORT Low-cost airlines on a </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=27"> CHEAP FLIGHTS high in the Middle East Saudi</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=28">AIR TRANSPORT </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=29"> promise delivered AS-09-10939 0409 All rights re</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=30">AIR TRANSPORT Alan Dron reports on how one ai</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=31"> HUMANITARIAN “They’re very rewarding oper</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=32">ROUTE PLANNING With the expansion of Muscat In</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=33"> From the ancient city of Muscat (above) to the lu</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=34"> Photo courtesy of Dassault</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=35"> business aviation EBACE REPORT </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=36"> business aviation EBACE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=37"> WALLAN AVIATION ■ Cessna Authorized Sales Represe</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=38"> business aviation EBACE CONTINUEDFROMPAGE36 </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=39"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=40"> business aviation PROFILE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=41"> M </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=42"> business aviation PROFILE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=43"> Saudis buy in to VIP Merlin </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=44"> Making connections in the Middle East AIME 2010</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=45"> business aviation PROFILE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=46"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=47"> business aviation PROFILE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=48"> flight test CESSNA SOVEREIGN WORTH EVERY </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=49"> Entering the cabin I notice the spaciousness.</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=50"> flight test CESSNA SOVEREIGN CONTINUEDFROMPA</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=51"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=52">12-PAGE SPECIAL FEATURE FOCUS ON UWAIT XXXXXX </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=53"> BACKGROUND Hafirnvovimnagstihroiensa</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=54"> FOCUS ON KUWAIT What doesn’t kill us makes us </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=55"> THE AIRLINE agreed to a hu</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=56"> FOCUS ON KUWAITTHE NEW AIRLINE Kuwaiti pre</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=57"> THE MILITARY FIGHTER WING, AHMAD AL JABER Ai</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=58"> FOCUS ON KUWAIT XXXXXX Four-stage mas</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=59"> THE AIRPORT to handle Code F aircr</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=60"> FOCUS ON KUWAIT XXXXXXTHE LOW-COST CARRIER </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=61">AIRCRAFT INTERIORS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=62"> AIRCRAFT INTERIORS The Iacobucci Group w</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=63">IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=64"> AIRCRAFT INTERIORS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 65" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=65"> CABINS Several Middle Eastern states are pin</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 66" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=66"> SPACE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 67" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=67"> The Al Ain Aerospace Cluster, Abu Dhabi </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 68" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=68">SAFETY The fatal accident rate for all busine</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 69" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=69"> TRAINING jets in airline ope</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 70" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=70">SAFETY Safety in the skies and N </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 71" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=71"> REGULATIONS how GCAA contributes ■ Effective enf</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 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title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 79" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=79"> FUELS ONEGIANTCHEMISTRYSET LNG(l</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 80" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=80"> TECHNOLOGY CONTINUEDFROMPAGE79 the potential f</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 81" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=81">XXXXXX </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 82" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=82"> TECHNOLOGY </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 83" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=83"> wwww.alsalam.com ■ Manufacturing of parts</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 84" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=84">TRAINING It’s the REAL thing Emirates A380 </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 85" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=85">OPPORTUNITIES was urgentl</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 86" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=86"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 87" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=87">AIRPORTS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 88" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=88">AIRPORTS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 89" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=89">DEVELOPMENT Most of the Middle East’s airport</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 90" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=90">EVENTS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 91" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=91"> PARIS 2009 </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 92" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=92">EVENTS SHOWS/CONFERENCES </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 93" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=93"> 850 show offs. With 850 exhibitors at 2007, where</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 94" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=94">EVENTS </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 95" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=95"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 96" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=96"> </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 97" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=97">PEOPLE </a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 98" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=98"> all in a dayPEOPLEFAISAL MOHAMED AL ZAIDI Phi</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 99" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=99"> TRANSFORMING YOUR VISION INTO FUNCTIONAL</a> <a title="AA Aug-Oct 2009 page 100" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/f43cdc2b?page=100"> </a>