Aircraft
Boeing takes fresh view at Middle East market
Market outlook forecasts 3,180 new Middle East aircraft worth $750 billion over next 20 years; widebodies will remain dominant.

Boeing is looking at the Middle East in a new way as it broadens its outlook and steers clear of involvement in the spat between U.S. and Middle East airlines. Bernard J. Dunn, president of Boeing Middle East, said that a new framework for BCA’s management of sales in the region had been adopted, introducing Turkey into the Middle East and North Africa region, now to be known as “MENAT.”

Meanwhile Randy Tinseth, vice president marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), speaking at the same briefing here in Dubai last week, refused to comment on the spat between the “Gulf 3” and “U.S. 3,” saying only, “We are advocates for deregulation and liberalization.” Tinseth and Dunn were speaking to reporters at the company’s Dubai regional headquarters ahead of the 2015 Dubai Airshow.