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• 02/11/2022 07:39

Kenya Airways opens direct route between Mombasa and Dubai

Kenya Airways will launch a direct route between the coastal city and Mombasa and Dubai from next month.

From December 1, the route will be offered four times a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) on the Nairobi-Mombasa-Dubai route.

Flight KQ306 will depart Nairobi at 20:55, arrive in Mombasa at 21:55, leave a… read more

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• 02/11/2022 07:30

KLM adds more flights between Amsterdam and Cape Town

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines  will be increasing daily flights from Amsterdam to Cape Town to 10 flights per week from 1 November 2022, to celebrate 30 years of flying between the two cities.

The airline launched its very first flight between Amsterdam and C… read more

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• 02/11/2022 07:24

Ethiopian Airlines' maiden flight to Bulawayo

ETHIOPIAN Airlines made its maiden flight to Bulawayo as it landed at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport, a key development in the aviation industry that will boost the tourism sector as well as ease international travel. The airline arrived on schedule to a spectacular traditional water cannon salute.

The airlin… read more

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• 02/11/2022 07:22

Air Austral and Kenya Airways set up codeshare agreement

Air Austral and Kenya Airways have signed a code-share agreement aimed at facilitating travel for their customers between Africa and the Indian Ocean and offering them a wider choice of destinations beyond their respective hubs in Nairobi and Saint-Denis de la Réunion.

From this Thursday, November 3, 2022, the two companies w… read more

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• 02/11/2022 07:21

FlySafair gets OK for new regional routes

South Africa's low-cost carrier FlySafair has received approval to operate flights to 11 new regional destinations within the southern African region.

Earlier this year, the low-cost carrier applied for rights to operate connections to a number of new destinations throughout the southern African region as well as additional frequenc… read more

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• 02/11/2022 07:12

NAMA sensitizes stakeholders on importance of incident reporting

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) says safety reporting is as important as investing in safety critical equipment and manpower training, because incident reports were a critical and strategic aspect of the aviation safety chain.

The Acting Managing Director of NAMA, Mr. Matthew Lawrence Pwajok who made this known at … read more

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• 31/10/2022 05:48

Tripled share capital, new CEO and reorganisation of the Board of Directors

Mauritania Ailines (MAI) has suffered from the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby increasing its deficit. This situation has forced the Mauritanian government, the airline's majority shareholder, to put its hand in its pocket and reorganise its management.

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• 30/10/2022 21:28

Towards a split of Kenya Airways into several subsidiaries

For almost ten years, Kenya Airways (KQ) has been operating at a loss, surviving only thanks to multiple financial infusions from the state. Elected President of Kenya last August, William Ruto has proposed a new strategy to make the Kenyan parastatal airline profitable.

Kenya Airways should be split into several subsidiar… read more

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• 30/10/2022 20:32

Ethiopian Airlines to triple paid-up capital to nearly USD 6 billion

Accumulating profits year after year, Ethiopian Airlines is now generating cash flows far in excess of its paid-up capital. This is an anomaly that the Ethiopian national airline group wants to correct in order to continue its growth.

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• 30/10/2022 20:32

Antananarivo chooses Embraer to rebuild Madagascar Airlines' regional fleet

Since December 2021, Madagascar Airlines has been operating the assets of Air Madagascar and its subsidiary Tsaradia, which is currently being restructured, under a management lease. The Malagasy President has committed to capitalize on the operational assets that will finally ensure the viability of the national flag.

Mad… read more