| Emirates bags World’s Best Airline award | | Cementing its place as one of the world’s leading international airlines, Emirates has on Tuesday been awarded the highly coveted ‘World’s Best Airline’ award, presented by Skytrax at the 2013 World Airline Awards. | | ILFC leasing buys 50 Airbus A320neo planes: companies | | US aircraft leasing group ILFC has ordered an extra 50 Airbus A320neo airliners with a catalogue price of $5.0 billion (3.7 billion euros), the two companies announced on the first day of the Paris Air Show on Monday. | | RAK Int’l Airport impresses at Routes | | RAK International Airport was a key exhibitor at the eighth Routes Europe in Budapest, — with a catchment area of 13 million people within a three-hour drive from neighbouring countries such as Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania and Croatia — and the hub was able to promote the UAE’s winter-sun holiday destination very well. | | Sharjah Airport passenger traffic jumps 19.18% | | Passenger traffic at Sharjah International Airport jumped 19.18 per cent to 728,327 in May, compared to 611,129 in the same month last year, according to the May traffic report issued by the Sharjah Airport Authority on Sunday. | | Emirates expands Arabic inflight entertainment | | Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, on Thursday announced an extended range of Arabic programming on its award-winning ice Digital Widescreen in-flight entertainment system from July onwards. | | ANA Dreamliner domestic flight cancelled | | Engine trouble grounded a Dreamliner in Japan on Wednesday, its operator said, marking the third straight day of problems for Boeing’s next generation plane after months of difficulties. | |
