Story ID: 421
Mena Aerospace Partners With Hala Bahrain
By: Peter Shaw-Smith
Caption: IJM Mena joint venture expanding aircraft under management
Word Count: 195
Mena Aerospace (Stand 875) has signed a contract with Hala Bahrain, a provider of ground handling and other airport services, to provide support to its business aviation clients at Bahrain International Airport (BIA).

Hala Bahrain was launched earlier this year by the Bahrain Airport Company (BAC), operator and manager of BIA.

Mena Aerospace has seven aircraft under hangarage with three of them also managed under its AOC.

Mena Aerospace is also looking into MRO accreditations through its MenaTechnics maintenance facility.

In partnership with Austria-based International Jet Management (IJM), Mena has also set up a joint venture, known as IJM Mena, which it said has experienced rapid growth in the past two years, leading it to sign agreements on two additional aircraft, a Gulfstream G650 and a Challenger 604.

IJM Mena is based at Mena Aerospace’s hangar complex at BIA, and holds an AOC issued by the Kingdom of Bahrain's Civil Aviation Department.

IJM was founded in 2003 and has more than 100 employees at its headquarters in Vienna, and it also has offices in central Europe and the Far East with 30 aircraft under management.