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• 28/07/2021 06:41

Mango temporarily suspends all operations until further notice

South African low-cost airline Mango, a subsidiary of South Africa's state-owned flag carrier South African Airways (SAA), … read more

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• 28/07/2021 06:40

Binter strengthens its position in Mauritania with its E195-E2

Binter Canarias has resumed flights to Mauritania in November 2020 following the easing of travel restrictions. For the summer period, the Spanish airline is increasing its offer to this favourite market.

The Spanish regional airline Binter Canarias has intensified its connections between the Canary… read more

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• 27/07/2021 16:27

Lift Airline to resume flights 1 August

Lift Airline has announced they will resume flights from 1 August after cancelling the majority of their flights in July.

‘We’re excited to be back in the air from August 1. It’s been a challenging few weeks for South Africa but with the clean-up underway, travel restrictions being relaxed and progress with the vaccinatio… read more

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• 27/07/2021 16:27

Air Seychelles to begin Maldives service

Starting this August, Air Seychelles will continue their weekly direct flights to the Maldives to provide travellers looking for a vacation at a nearby destination.

Flying directly to Velana International Airport in Male within just 3 hours, the scheduled flights will be operated year-round by the airline’s A320neo jetliner.

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• 27/07/2021 06:47

Fastjet is now operating daily flights between Harare and Johannesburg

Low-cost carrier Fastjet (Zimbabwe) has increased the number of flights between Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE) in Harare and OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) in … read more

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• 27/07/2021 06:45

Int'l Entebbe Airport (Uganda): over 237,000 passengers and 16,200 tonnes of cargo in Q2

Before the pandemic, the Entebbe hub was handling about 89 aircraft movements per day. But at the height of the health crisis last year, annual traffic more than doubled to just 14,437 movements by 31 December 2020. With the gradual lifting of travel restrictions since 1 October last year, however, there has been a resurgence in traffic.
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• 27/07/2021 05:55

Overland Airways condemns false misleading Media Reports

Overland Airways, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines, has condemned the false and misleading use of the photograph of the airline’s aircraft in a poorly crafted report by a Nigerian newspaper, which has also been re-posted severally online.

Overland Airways stated in a release: “Our attention has been drawn to a malicious use of Over… read more

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• 27/07/2021 05:51

Joy as Lufthansa starts flying into Zanzibar

THE Lufthansa Group's new subsidiary, Eurowings Discover launched its inaugural flight to Zanzibar yesterday signifying efforts of reviving tourism that has been hit hard by the Covid-19.

Zanzibar Minister for Tourism and Heritage Lulu Mohamed Mussa led several stakeholders in tourism and travel businesses to welcome the plane at th… read more

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• 27/07/2021 05:50

Mango being jettisoned

The DA notes the announcement by the interim CEO of Mango, Thomas Kgokolo, today that Mango is to go into business rescue. This despite the appropriation of R819 million for Mango being signed off by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 6 July 2021, three weeks ago.

Mango apparently has liabilities that exceed R2.5 billion and thus the taxp… read more

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• 27/07/2021 05:49

Tunisair: passenger traffic down 42% in the first half of 2021

The situation is getting more complicated for Tunisair. After a catastrophic year in 2020 when it saw its revenues fall by at least two thirds, the company remains more than fragile in the midst of the unpredictability of the Covid-19 pandemic and its induced effects.

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact Tunisair's activitie… read more