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This week on Marketplace Middle East

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  • MME talks to Etithad's CEO James Hogan at the Farnborough International Air Show
  • Etithad signed a deal worth more than $20 million with Boeing this week
  • We look at the Union of the Mediterranean, launched this week in Paris
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(CNN) -- FACETIME with Etihad CEO James Hogan

James Hogan makes his multi-million dollar deal with Boeing official at the Farnborough International Air Show.  MME sits down with Hogan to discuss the deal and the future of the company.

James Hogan makes his multi-million dollar deal with Boeing official at the Farnborough International Air Show. MME sits down with Hogan to discuss the deal and the future of the company.

As oil prices leave the aviation industry reeling with cutbacks, price hikes and bankruptcy, this week, at the largest international air show, the Middle East Carriers have been dominating the headlines.

Fly Dubai announced a $4 billion order with Boeing, while Abu Dhabi's national carrier announced a deal with Airbus and Boeing worth more than $20 billion, in what is deemed the most valuable commercial aircraft order in aviation history.

This week, MME sits down with the CEO of Etihad, James Hogan, at the Farnborough International Air Show to discuss the airline's future expansion plans and competition in the aviation industry in the region.

IN FOCUS -- A Mediterranean Union

The Union for the Mediterranean is pitched as a group that will help promote the economies of North Africa, a way to keep Turkey out of the EU, and is the pet project of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

But despite this, the Libyans hate it, the Algerians say they'll tolerate it, and the Moroccans feel that it is better than nothing. This week, the union was launched in Paris, but many key leaders from the Middle East stayed away from the event.

Marketplace Middle East takes a look at one of the most controversial projects under France's Presidency of the EU.

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Watch the show this week at the times (GMT) below:

Friday: 0815, 1945
Saturday: 0545
Sunday: 0715

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