10 events that shaped the Gulf's aviation industry

The GCC aviation industry has largely bucked the downward global trend this year.
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The Middle Eastern aviation industry does face challenges – in some cases, a chronic lack of profitability – but it has largely bucked the recent global trend of falling passenger and cargo traffic.

It took a long time, plenty of investment and lots of hard work for the Gulf to build its modern aviation infrastructure. There are certain events, however, that were key in shaping the industry as we have now come to know it.

In this Special Report, arabiansupplychain.com has identified ten events that we believe helped shape the GCC’s modern aviation industry. To compile this list, we scoured the archives and put our collective heads together as an editorial team. We hope you find the list informative and please let us know your thoughts at the bottom of the article.

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FEATURED COMMENT If you look around and see the figure heads of all the other airlines in the Gulf, like Emirates, Air Arabia, Qatar, Eti   4 Comments Read more comments »