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Nigeria Immigration Introduces New Visa Policies
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has introduced new visa regimes to citizens of United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates (UAE), France and 147 other countries.
The service said that the new regime, which consists of transit, business (single), business (multiple), tourism, visiting (single), visiting (multiple… read more
LH resumes flights to CPT on B747
Lufthansa has become the first international airline to resume flights to South Africa. After landing its first scheduled flight in the country for several months on Thursday morning, Lufthansa has announced services will continue to Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Flights have resumed owing to the easing of travel r… read more
Air Mauritius relaunches international flights on October 2
TAAG doubles its frequencies on the Luanda - São Paulo route
Sky Mali launches commercial operations with Bamako - Kayes flight
Air Mauritius resumes Reunion service in Oct 2020
Air Mauritius in October 2020 plans to resume Mauritius – St. Denis de la Reunion service, initially operating 1 weekly flights. Due to travel restrictions, the airline is only accepting reservation for flight departure from Reunion. A330-200 aircraft to operate this route from 05OCT20.
MK218 MRU0900 – 0945RUN 3… read more
TAAG resumes regular international service
Angola’s TAAG last week resumed International scheduled service, according to its statement. From 22SEP20 to 24OCT20, the carrier schedules following flights.
Luanda – Lisbon 3 weekly
Luanda – Sao Paulo Guarulhos Service operates every 2 weeks
Brussels Airlines expands its offer to Africa
At the start of the winter season, 14 destinations will be included in
the airline’s intercontinental offer, with a sole focus on Africa. The
airline will expand its offer with 12% as of October 25th.
As of this winter, Brussels Airlines will fly to Abidjan on a daily base. During winter holidays, extra freq… read more
SWISS completes all ticket refunds
SWISS has completed by the end of September its processing of the ticket refund requests which it had received from Swiss tour operators up to the end of July, thereby complying with a corresponding requirement from the Swiss Confederation. The refund requests from direct customers dating from the same time period have also … read more
Emirates to restart ops into Nigeria
Based on the undertaking by the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Nigerian government has agreed to lift the ban placed on Emirates Airlines from operating into and out of the country.
James Odaudu, the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation made this known in a statement stating that the Minis… read more
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