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MIDDLE EAST OMAN
Oman Aviation Services to invest $4.2 m in IT services
Oman Aviation Services (OAS), the parent company of Oman
Air, is to invest $4.2
million over four years in major IT improvements at Muscat
International Airport, following 22 per cent growth in
passengers travelling on the national airline last year. The
investment programme agreed with SITAwill cover all
essential airport operations including check-in, flight
boarding and baggage management. The four-year program will
be fully operational in three months. SITA will both install
and maintain AirportConnect Open; SITA BagManager; and
PassengerHandler.
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ASIA MALAYSIA
Malaysian
company wins low cost terminal expansion contract
Fajarbaru Builder Group Berhad announced that it has
received a Letter of Acceptance from Malaysia Airports
Holdings Berhad (MAHB) in respect of the “Proposed Design,
Construct and Complete the Expansion of Low Cost Carrier
Terminal (LCCT) at KL International Airport, Sepang,
Malaysia”. The company also mentioned that the total
contract sum is RM123.9 million. The contract period is for
11 months and the commencement date of the works is on 7
April 2008. The contract is expected to contribute
positively to the earnings and net assets of the FBG Group.
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MIDDLE EAST - UAE
DWC signs deal with Palm Aviation
Dubai World Central (DWC) Aviation City has signed a deal
with Palm Aviation to set
up the project’s first fixed-base operation (FBO) ground
handling facility. The AED40 million 80,000 sq ft facility
to cater to the booming flight support services industry
will be built within Dubai World Central. Palm Aviation will
extend their existing global flight support operations
centre to DWC Aviation City from its existing Dubai Airport
Free Zone office. Al Maktoum International Airport goes live
with initial cargo operations by end-2008 and has been
designed to handle 120-150 million passengers and 12 million
tonnes of cargo annually.
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ASIA
VIETNAM
Changi
to invest and develop Phu Bai International Airport
Changi Airports International (CAI) has signed an MOU with
the Middle Airports
Authority of Vietnam (MAA) to invest, develop and operate
Phu Bai International Airport in the city of Hue. Phu Bai
International Airport is located in the City of Hue, which
was the capital of Vietnam between 1744 and 1945. It is
ideally situated as the gateway to Thua Thien Hue Province
and the Middle Region. The airport currently handles more
than 500,000 passengers per annum and was designated
Vietnam’s fourth international airport in August 2007.
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UAE
Emirates
to launch new low cost airline
The new airline is being set up on the orders of HH Sheikh
Mohammad bin Rashid Al
 Maktoum,
VP, PM of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. Sheikh Mohammed
instructed the competent authorities to set up a new airline
company to cater for the growing passenger traffic from and
to the UAE. HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Chairman
and Chief Executive of Emirates welcomed the establishment
of a new airline in Dubai: “Emirates welcomes this
announcement, and any new Dubai airline operation. Dubai's
Open Skies policy encourages the growth of air transport,
which has and continues to contribute to the development of
this city. The new airline, a low cost carrier, will
complement the international air services already provided
by Emirates.” Ghaith Saeed Al Ghaith was named CEO of the
new airline company.
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ASIA CHINA
Jewers
Doors in JV supplies doors for largest MRO hangar in Asia
Construction of Ameco Beijing's A380 aircraft maintenance
hangar, the largest in Asia,
was completed at Beijing's Capital Airport and inaugurated
on 18 March 2008. The hangar, which has a floor area of more
than 70,000 sq m, can accommodate all Boeing and Airbus
series aircraft including A380. With joint venture partner,
Baotong Door Company of Shenyang in China, Jewers Doors
designed an Esavian Type 126 sliding hangar door measuring
350 m wide by 27 m high, which spans the full width of the
four-bay A380 hangar.
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MIDDLE EAST S. ARABIA
King
Abdulaziz International Airport selects GE Security
GE Security recently announced the deployment and
installation of new access control and fire and life safety
systems at King Abdulaziz International Airport’s Hajj
Terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The installation includes
the new DirecDoor™ IP door controller to efficiently manage
access at the large terminal’s many doors. Hajj Terminal is
the first to use this advanced technology to economically
control hundreds of doors. Hajj Terminal can accommodate
80,000 travelers and is estimated to be the world's fourth
largest air terminal. King Abdulaziz International Airport
is Saudi Arabia's third largest air facility.
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RUSSIA
Warsaw Airport opens T2 with UFIS
With the installation of its Universal Flight Information
System (UFIS®), UFIS Airport
Solutions (UFIS-AS) made a major contribution to allow
Polish Airports State Enterprise (PPL) to open the new
terminal at Frederic Chopin International Airport, Warsaw in
March 2008. The expansion of the UFIS® installation at
Warsaw was completed in three phases. The first phase
involved the installation of new server hardware, an upgrade
of the Oracle® database and the migration of the UFIS®
installation from Unixware to Solaris 9 from Sun
Microsystems. The second phase included an upgrade to the
most recent version of the UFIS® package (version 4.5). The
upgrade was carried out without affecting airport
operations.
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