Rockwell Collins’ long presence in the Middle East is paying dividends across its commercial, business and military aircraft product lines, said Claude Alber, the company’s managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He predicts continued growth in all segments.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins (Stand 1434) has had a presence in the region for some 20 years, and has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha and Cairo. Earlier this year, the manufacturer announced a “strategic alliance” for maintenance, repair and overhaul of military avionics with Advanced Military Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Center of Abu Dhabi. It also has a partnership agreement with Advanced Electronics Company of Saudi Arabia.

Rockwell Collins supplies the airline market in the region with communications, navigation and surveillance avionics, and this week announced that low-cost carrier flydubai has chosen its HGS-4000 Head-up Guidance System, MultiScan ThreatTrack weather radar and datalink communications system for 11 new Boeing 737-800s.

Rockwell Collins’ 2013 acquisition of airborne communications provider ARINC is behind another announcement the company is making at the Dubai Airshow–Royal Jordanian Airlines’ selection of the Rockwell Collins ARINC GlobalLink service for its fleet communications. The airline is also using the Rockwell Collins “OpCenter” web-based messaging system, and future plans call for using the manufacturer’s Web Aircraft Situational Display to support global flight-tracking.

The combination of Rockwell Collins’ avionics and ARINC’s communications infrastructure has produced a “sales synergy” that this year produced higher-than-expected results on a global basis, Alber said.

Rockwell Collins is further involved in what Alber refers to as information management. Also at the Dubai Airshow, Rockwell Collins announced that Jazeera Airways of Kuwait is the launch airline customer of its PAVES inflight entertainment cabin wireless system. The airline will installed PAVES with Inmarsat Global Xpress high-speed satellite communications on its fleet of seven Airbus A320s, with service beginning in December 2016.

“The amount of data [transmitted] on and off the aircraft is just exploding, and the airlines see the benefit of network-enabled information,” Alber said.