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  • Flights

Angola Sonair Angola´s Sonair stops operations with Boeing 737-700

Sonair, an Angolan private air company, has stopped running domestic commercial flights with the Boeing 737-700. Sonair had offered connetction between Luanda Cabinda, Catumbela (Benguela) and Lubango (Huila),. The flights have been already stopped on November, 30th. a company source said.

The company source also told the Angop news agency t… read more


  • Accomodation

Hotels Anantara Anantara Tozeur Resort in Tunisia

Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas opens this month its first property in North Africa; the opening of Anantara Tozeur Resort in the southwest of Tunisia is a big step for the luxury hotel chain. Offering high-class gateway to cultural and desert wonders, the new-build resort showcases exquisite Arabian and North … read more

  • Flights

DRC Busy Bee Busy Bee Congo has suspended ops

The private held airline Busy Bee Congo has suspended its activities since Tuesday, December 3, 2019. The Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) has ordered "the immobilization of the entire airline fleet of the company Busy Bee Congo on the instruction of his Excellency the Minister of Transport and the ways of Communications, and that until new orde… read more

  • Flights

Madagascar Air Madagascar Air Madagascar will suspend its line Antananarivo - Johannesburg

The Madagascar national airline announced this step to travel agencies this week. Thus, the connections between the capital of Madagascar and the South African city will be interrupted on January 8, 2020. At the origin of this new suspension, a filling rate quite low, and in turn a lack of profitability. Since June 2019, the airline offers two… read more

  • Miscellaneous

Madagascar Madagascar: Cyclon to hit coast on sunday

This coming Sunday, a cyclon is going to hit the Mdagascar coast in the region of the city Boeny - this is what the latest weather forcats models say.
Already before the cyckon hits the coats, there extremely heavy rainfalls and flash floods to be expected.

  • Flights

Senegal Air Senegal Air Senegal's second Airbus A330-900neo

Air Senegal's second Airbus A330-900neo has arrived. The brand new aircraft was received Tuesday, December 3, 2019 by Alioune Sarr, the Senegalese Minister of Civil Aviation in Airbus workshops in Toulouse. The aircraft landed at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar yesterday.

Equipped with RollsRoyce's Trent 7000 engines, the airc… read more

  • Flights

SouthAfrica SAA SAA in business rescue

The Board of SAA (South African Airways), supported by the governement of South Africa has decided to place the SAA into business rescue. A press statement says, this would be "the optimal mechanism to restore confidence in SAA and to safeguard the good assets of SAA and help to restructure and reposition the entity into one that is stronger,… read more


  • Flights

Eritrean Airlines Eritrean Airlines acquires new airplane

Eritrean Airlines has received a new airplane. The Eritrean national airline received on November 28, 2019, a Boeing 737-400, which is registered as UR-CNP.
The aircraft has been leased from Yanair., a Ukrainian aircraft rental and charter flights specialist, which is a long-time partner of Eritrean Airlines… read more

  • Flights

Cameroon CamAir Co CamAir flight shot with arms during landing in Bamenda

Cameroon Airline Corporation said, one of its airplanes, a MA60 aircraft, has been shot with firearms approaching Bamenda Airport from Douala. As per airline statement, the incident took place on December 1st around 10am.

The crew was able to land the airplane safely even there was some damage at the fuselage; as a consequence, the aircraf… read more


  • Flights

SouthAfrica SAA SAA to merge with Ethiopian?

SAA is in problems; after the strike, the problems are even larger as the negative financial impact of the strike hit an already weak airline. According to an internal document, written by one of the former SAA CEO's, one of the best chances to recover would be to absolutely governement-free and to merge with another major airlines.
There are n… read more

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