Fairs and Exhibitions (F&E) and Aviation Week have unveiled plans to stage an aviation conference in Dubai.

The two companies have agreed in principle to organise Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Middle East Conference and Exhibition at the Airport Expo Dubai in February 2009.

F&E is a UK and Dubai-based company which organises the Dubai Air Show and Aviation Week is a division of the financial services, education and business information company McGraw-Hill.

'Aviation Week has an enviable track record in staging events devoted to maintenance, repair and overhaul for the aviation sector with successful exhibitions and conferences dedicated to this evolving segment in Asia, Europe and North America,' F and E chief Virginia Kern said

'Its global expertise combined with F and E's unrivalled knowledge of the Middle East market will produce an event which we anticipate will rapidly climb the international rankings,' she added. TradeArabia News Service