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• 14/12/2020 03:36

Emirates clinches three awards at World Travel Awards

Emirates has been named as the World’s Leading Airline in three major categories at the World Travel Awards 2020: World’s Leading Economy Class, Airline Rewards Programme and Airline Lounge – Business Class.

Earlier this month, Emirates also took home four regional World Travel Awards for the Middle East’s Leading Airl… read more

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• 12/12/2020 21:25

Royal Zambian Airlines starts scheduled ops on December 17

Royal Zambian Airlines, a subsidiary of Royal Air Charters, will launch its scheduled flights on December 17th. For its launch, it will offer 4 weekly flights on the Lusaka - Johannesburg route.

Its fleet includes two Embraer E120LR and one E145LR. This is what Emmanuel Kalombe, general manager and directo… read more

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• 12/12/2020 03:43

Uganda Airlines operates into Kinshasa (DRC) from December 18

Uganda Airlines' regional network is growing. From December 18, the Ugandan national carrier will operate a direct flight between Entebbe and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The largest French-speaking city in the world will be linked three times a week, Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The service wil… read more

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• 12/12/2020 03:40

Sky Mali launches into stormy skies

Sky Mali chalked up a major milestone on July 22 – receipt of its air operator’s licence. The start-up had already taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-500 aircraft in March, configured for 102 people in economy class and 12 in business class.  Tom Pleasant reports.

Based out of Modibo Keita In… read more

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• 12/12/2020 02:59

Lufthansa restores Lagos-Frankfurt operations

According to officials, Lufthansa will offer up to five weekly departures from Lagos to Frankfurt and connect the capital Abuja with three weekly departures, starting from December 8.

All long-haul flights depart from Nigeria in the evening as overnight flights, arriving in Lufthansa’s main hub Frankfurt… read more

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• 10/12/2020 21:06

Proflight again increases NLA to LUN capacity

From February 2021 Proflight Zambia will add mid-day Lusaka-Ndola-Lusaka flight on Fridays with convenient connections to and from Emirates.

This gives three return Lusaka-Ndola-Lusaka flight options on Fridays.

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• 10/12/2020 13:31

Ethiopian Airlines with second weekly service to Moscow Domodedovo Airport DME

Ethiopian Airlines has introduced its second weekly flight to Addis Ababa from Moscow Domodedovo Airport.

The carrier performs regular flights on Thursdays and Saturdays. The flights arrive at Domodedovo Airport at 08.15, departing at 21.30 (Moscow time).

Ethiopian Airlines decided to add new frequencies to meet rising demand … read more

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• 10/12/2020 11:40

Ethiopian Airlines says strike by Traffic Controllers won’t affect operations

Ethiopian Airlines says planned strike by Traffic Controllers won’t affect operations:

Ethiopian Airlines would like to inform its esteemed customers that the planned strike by Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) in Addis Ababa on Monday August 27, 2018 will have no effect on its operations.

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• 10/12/2020 10:05

Another Embraer E190 for Airlink

Irish lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) announced the delivery on November 26 of a new Embraer E190 msn 19000187) to private South African company Airlink.

This new acquisition will help strengthen the operations of the carrier, which is currently positioned as the largest regional company with the widest netw… read more

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• 10/12/2020 06:47

African airlines traffic sank 78.6% in October

• Total demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was down 70.6% compared to October 2019. This was just a modest improvement from the 72.2% year-to-year decline recorded in September. Capacity was down 59.9% compared to a year ago and load factor fell 21.8 percentage points to 60.2%.
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