The summer season, when schools are off for two months and productivity at work slows down, is usually seen as the best time to leave one’s home country for a…
Airlines
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Eithad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier that recently canceled an order of seven Airbus A350 passenger jets, will reduce its original order with the plane-maker and substitute canceled planes to meet…
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The dismissal last autumn of cancer-stricken Captain Joseph Ayat from the nation’s cedar embossed carrier, Middle East Airlines (MEA), reignited a history of discord that has been simmering at the…
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Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, was the Arabian peninsula’s original pioneer in aviation, boasting more than six decades of in-the-air experience. However, in recent years it has fallen from profit…
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American owned airlines have been prohibited from flying to Lebanon since 1985, when kidnappings and hijackings were more common than tourists at Beirut International Airport. But now Delta will become…
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Menajet, the new, low-cost Lebanese charter airline, is billing itself as the vanguard of no-frills charter business in Lebanon, a challenge that menajet’s chairman and general manager, Riad Mikaoui is…