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Fastjet Zimbabwewas straight out of the starting blocks with the announcement to resume flights, following the lifting of the flight ban for scheduled passenger services by the Zimbabwe government. Domestic flights across Zimbabwe will resume on the 10th of September, i.e. tomorrow already while international / regional flights will resume o… read more
Fastjet announces their return to the skies
Emirates adds Moscow to its growing flight network
Emirates will re-start passenger services to Moscow Domodedovo Airport (DME) with two flights a week, starting 11 September. The resumption of flights to Moscow will take the airline’s expanding network in Europe to 26 cities – offering Emirates’ global customers with more travel options to Europe, and customers in Russia wi… read more
United Airlines adding new nonstop flights to Africa
United Airlines today announced plans to expand its global route network with new nonstop service to Africa, India and Hawaii. With these new routes, United will offer more nonstop service to India and South Africa than any other U.S. carrier and remains the largest carrier between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii.
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Detla Airlines returns to Lagos from Atlanta
Barely four days after the Federal Government reopened the airspace for international flight services into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, Delta Air Lines, the only United States carrier that operates into Nigeria has landed at Lagos airport.The airlin… read more
Air Tanzania to resume Mumbai service from Dec 2020 at earliest
Air Tanzania in recent schedule update filed planned service resumption to India, on board Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. Based on OAG schedules listing as of 06SEP20, as well as the airlines’ booking system, the airline intends to resume Dar es Salaam – Mumbai route as early as 02DEC20.
This route is scheduled 4 time… read more
Emirates resumes Cebu to Dubai service on August 20
“We salute Emirates for resuming flights between Cebu and Dubai. This is truly a heartening development, and the Mactan-Cebu International Airport gives our reassurance that we are more ready than ever to safely welcome back our passengers. We are indeed excited to take one more step towards our recovery,” said Atty. Steve Y… read more
Asky Airlines adds Lome – Brazzaville sector as of August
Asky Airlines since late-August 2020 added Lome – Brazzaville nonstop sector, on board Boeing 737 aircraft. Introduced on 24AUG20, the airline operates Lome – Brazzaville – Kinshasa routing, 3 times weekly.
KP044 LFW1255 – 1715BZV1755 – 1835FIH 737 136
KP045 FIH0805 – 0845BZV0925 – 1125LFW 737 247
Comair prepares to restart operations
With assets exceeding liabilities and an unbroken seven-decade record of grinding out profit, Comair always stood a better chance of emerging from business rescue than its state-owned counterpart. Even though shareholders such as Allan Gray will walk off with nothing, as they would have if the company was liquidated, th… read more
Status of KQ nationalisation
Kenya Airways is moving closer to nationalisation as the carrier together with the National Treasury are conducting valuation of the individual and small shareholders to ascertain their value. The airline opened talks with the minority shareholders as they seek to get them out of the shareholding ahead of the nationalisation of the ca… read more
Oman Air back in the air from October 1
Oman will resume international flights from October 1. The decision was announced by the Supreme Committee, under the chair of Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal al-Busaidi, Minister of Interior, according to a report from Oman News Agency.
"Flights will be scheduled according to health data for specific destinations and a… read more
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