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الإتحاد العربي للنقل الجوي | |
Formation | August 25, 1965 |
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Headquarters | Beirut, Lebanon |
Official language | Arabic |
Secretary General | Abdul Wahab Teffaha |
Chairman of the Executive Committee | H.E. Eng. Ibrahim Al Omar |
Website |
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The Arab Air Carriers' Organization (AACO; Arabic: الإتحاد العربي للنقل الجوي, lit. 'Arab Union for Air Transport') is a non-profit organization with 37 constituent airline members from 19 countries within North Africa and the Middle East. The constituent countries are Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen; all within the Arab world. It is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. The AACO members collectively offer 3,371 daily flights to 435 airports in 126 countries.
The organization was established on 25 August 1965 upon the recommendation of the Transport Committee of the League of Arab States and the endorsement of the Arab transport minister. [1] [2] [3] Saudia was one of its founding members. [4]
The AACO signed an agreement with the International Civil Aviation Organization that its airlines will have 0% growth of their emissions by 2020. [5]
AACO is the platform of cooperation between its members and various stakeholders in the aviation industry, established partnership programs: one is the Partner Airlines, where non-Arab Airlines can join AACO and benefit from its joint work. [6] The second is the Industry Partners, where aviation stakeholders attend AACO events and activities to strengthen their relations with member and partner airlines. It provides a joint framework for cooperation amongst its members in many areas as: Amadeus Distribution Agreement, Fuel, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO), Emergency Response Planning (ERP), In-flight Medical Emergencies (IME), Cooperation at Outstations, Environment, Digital Transformation, Aero-political Affairs, Aviation Security (AVSEC), and training through AACO's regional training center (RTC). [7]
Member airline [8] | Joined | Airline alliance |
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Afriqiyah Airways | 2002 | — |
Air Algérie | 1971 | — |
Air Arabia | 2004 | — |
Air Cairo | 2007 | — |
Badr Airlines | 2015 | — |
EgyptAir [A] | 1965 | Star Alliance |
Emirates | 1989 | — |
Etihad Airways | 2004 | — |
flyadeal | 2023 | |
Fly Baghdad | 2022 | — |
flydubai | 2014 | — |
FlyEgypt | 2017 | — |
flynas | 2012 | — |
Gulf Air | 1971 | — |
Iraqi Airways [A] | 1965 | — |
Jordan Aviation | 2004 | — |
Kuwait Airways [A] | 1965 | — |
Libyan Airlines | 1970 | — |
Mauritania Airlines | 2015 | — |
Middle East Airlines [A] | 1965 | SkyTeam |
Nesma Airlines | 2022 | |
Nile Air | 2014 | — |
Nouvelair | 2011 | — |
Oman Air | 1997 | Oneworld (in 2024) |
Palestinian Airlines | 1999 | |
Qatar Airways | 1997 | Oneworld |
Red Sea Airlines | 2023 | |
Riyadh Air | 2023 | |
Royal Air Maroc | 1974 | Oneworld |
Royal Jordanian [A] | 1965 | Oneworld |
Saudia [A] | 1965 | SkyTeam |
Sudan Airways [A] | 1965 | — |
Syrian Air [A] | 1965 | — |
Tarco Aviation | 2019 | — |
Tassili Airlines | 2012 | — |
Tunisair | 1972 | — |
Yemenia [A] | 1965 | — |
A Founding member
B Ceased operations
AACO Regional Training Center (RTC) was established in 1996 in Amman – Jordan with financial support from the European Commission and the two major aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing, with the main objective of providing training for AACO members to be conducted in the region. AACO's RTC provides industry courses in many aviation management and other specialized fields, and also provides customized courses in aviation, travel and tourism-related affairs. Its objective is to provide training and human resources development, and to assist airlines in achieving savings in their training budgets.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, the regional training center expanded its activities to include specialized courses in aviation and training programs to enhance the skills of students in the Arab region. This expansion resulted in the graduation of over 20,000 trainees. To meet the increased training needs of AACO Member Airlines, a new branch of the training center was opened in Cairo.
AACO's AGM is the highest authority in AACO and is attended by the CEOs of the Member Arab Airlines. The AGM is held once annually to develop and present strategies and a roadmap for AACO. The Annual General Assembly of AACO brings together the CEOs of member airlines in addition to a number of aviation stakeholders and industry partners, as well as the international and local press.
AACO Forums aim at providing platforms for communication and networking between members, partner airlines, regulators, associations and suppliers in the aviation industry. In addition, those forums are always followed by closed meetings for member airlines only, where airlines discuss the outcome of the events and direct AACO to work on issues of common interest in relevant domains.
By L. L. Doty Cairo— Formation of an Arab airline bloc to increase the competitive power of Middle East carriers is a direct … Designated the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AW&ST Nov. 15, 1965, p. 52). the group can best be described as a …