Martin Leo Rivers

Full article in PDF format: page 17-18 & cover Back in 2013, Saad Al-Khafaji, the then director general of Iraqi Airways, beamed from...

Full article in PDF format On 26th August 2021, as US forces scrambled to escape from Kabul amid a sweeping return to power for the Taliba...

Full article in PDF format: page 19-20 & cover As Europe’s fastest growing low-cost carrier, it should come as no surprise that Wizz ...

Full article in PDF format Libya’s Berniq Airways took to the skies in March with an inaugural service from home base Benghazi to capital ...

Full article in PDF format In recent years Nile Air had seemed to be a rare bright spot in Egypt’s civil aviation market, spreading its wi...

Full article in PDF format: page 16-17 & cover With just six aircraft in its fleet, SaudiGulf Airlines, a boutique carrier based in D...

Full article in PDF format During the early years of Syria’s civil war, Middle East Airlines (MEA), the flag-carrier of neighbouring Leban...

Full article in PDF format: page 22-24 & cover Like any state-owned flag carrier, EgyptAir’s fortunes are tied inexorably to those of...

Full article in PDF format As a charter carrier with just one aircraft on its registry, Wings of Lebanon rarely gets the media attention t...

Full article in PDF format Until 2014, when Tripoli International Airport was razed to the ground by warring militias, Mediterranean Aviat...

Full article in PDF format Ashraf Lamloum knew he was taking a risk in 2016, when he opened a base in Jeddah and launched narrow-body flig...

Full article in PDF format Syrian Arab Airlines provoked a curious mixture of applause and raised eyebrows at the annual meeting of the Ar...

Full article in PDF format Ryanair’s decision to launch 14 routes to Jordan last year could easily have been a disaster for Royal Jordania...

Full article in PDF format Mohamed Frikha could not have picked a worse time to establish his airline than 2011, the year in which Tunisia...

Full article in PDF format AtlasGlobal’s chairman, Murat Ersoy, turned heads last year when he pledged to create an alliance of nine diffe...

Full article in PDF format: page 19-22 & cover Like the Gulf super-connectors, Oman Air carries more than two-thirds of its passenger...

Full article in PDF format Pegasus Airlines strengthened its recovery in the first quarter of this year, lifting passenger numbers by 18% ...

Full article in PDF format Bilal Ekşi knew he was in for a rough ride when he took on the role of Turkish Airlines (THY) chief executive i...

Full article in PDF format When Royal Jordanian Airlines ran a series of advertisements mocking Donald Trump, the US President, and making...

Full article in PDF format The European Union’s delegation to Tunisia could not have struck a more optimistic tone in December, when EU Tr...