A press release for a new Arab Aviation Web site arrived in my email recently. The site has a clean, helpful, intelligent look to it, so I wanted to pass the information along to anyone reading this blog who travels to and from Arab countries. The press release says, "We are pleased to launch our web portal arabavia.com, containing aviation and airline information and news, covering country, airline and MRO briefs, details on over 35,000 airports/aerodromes worldwide, all safety related occurrences in the Arab region, who's who, services directory (over 4,500 firms), airline statistic, job postings and aircraft exchange platform, and other features."

[Reader Jim K. wrote in February 2012 to let me know that the link (previously) given above was leading to an unexpected Web page. I checked it out, and I believe that the correct link is now http://arabaviation.com/. I am not 100% sure that this new link goes to the same site that the old one did, but it does look like a helpful site for learning about the airline industry in Arab countries. —Tonya]

—Posted by Tonya Engst on October 25, 2011