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Air Burkina Sep/Oct 2020 operations
Air Burkina earlier this month updated its operation for the remainder of Northern summer 2020 season. For the period of 14SEP20 – 31OCT20, planned operation includes the following.
Ouagadougou – Abidjan 2 weekly E175
Ouagadougou – Bamako – Dakar 3 weekly E195
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Air Mauritius increases Rodrigues service from mid-Oct 2020
Air Mauritius in mid-October 2020 plans to increase Mauritius – Rodrigues flight, with the addition of 4th daily flight. Additional flight, MK140/141, operates from 16OCT20 (except 27OCT20 – 28OCT20 and 31OCT20).
MK140 MRU1440 – 1610RRG AT7 D
MK141 RRG1655 – 1835MRU AT7 D
The last A380 fuselage is complete and destined for Emirates airline
With Emirates'scolours on its tail, the last A380 fuselage has rolled off the assembly line at Airbus's manufacturing station in France. Aircraft number MSN272 still has a way to go before it is ready for delivery to Dubai, but completion of the fuselage signals the beginning of the end for the superjumbo.
Around 150,000 squa… read more
Emirates NW20 operation changes - again
Emirates in the last 24 hours continue to file adjust operational network for Northern winter 2020/21 season, from 25OCT20 to 27MAR21. As of 1100GMT 24SEP20, the airline has removed Dallas/Ft. Worth, Edinburgh, London Stansted, Mexico City, Newcastle, St. Petersburg, San Francisco and Tokyo Haneda from its winter schedule… read more
Emirates resumes flights to JNB, CPT, DUR, HRE and MRU
Emirates has announced it will resume flights to Johannesburg (1 October), Cape Town (1 October), Durban (4 October) in South Africa; Harare in Zimbabwe (1 October); and Mauritius (3 October). The addition of the five points will expand the Emirates’ global network to 92 destinations, as the airline gradually resumes its operations… read more
KLM prepares for restricted winter schedule
Owing to adjusted travel warnings, prompting Code Orange (essential travel only) designations for the UK, Spain, parts of France and other countries, the planned upscaling of KLM’s European network in September has been put on hold. The quarantine rules in the United Kingdom have had a particularly marked impact on KLM’s network. For the … read more
Ethiopian Airlines to resume Abidjan – New York service in mid-Dec 2020
Ethiopian Airlines in recent schedule update filed planned service resumption on Addis Ababa – Abidjan – New York JFK route, served 3 times weekly. The Star Alliance carrier currently plans to resume this route on 16DEC20, with Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.
ET512 ADD0900 – 1215ABJ1315 – 1915JFK 787 136
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RwandAir banks on stable routes as flights resume
RwandAir is banking on citizen repatriation and business travellers when the airline finally resumes most of its flights on October 1. The national carrier will also capitalise on its existing network and stable routes as it seeks to salvage the remaining part of the year since tourism remains unreliable.
Some of the fligh… read more
ET resumes flight to Victoria Falls
Ethiopian Airlines Group, Africa’s largest airline is pleased to announce the resumption of its flight services to Victoria Falls, African’s most spectacular natural sites effective 06 October, 2020.
Esteemed Customers are kindly informed that Facemasks will be mandatory for travel and are requested to satisfy destination ent… read more
Proflight back on Lusaka-Joburg Route
Proflight Zambia will launch four-times-a-week passenger flights to Johannesburg from Zambia’s Lusaka capital from October 1.
This comes barely days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country would reopen its international borders on October 1, 2020, under level 1 of lockdown. The airline will op… read more
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