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• 24/08/2020 05:52

South African Airways: Promising proposals

Following a series of turns, there is news this week that the government of South Africa has begun discussions with private groups that are looking to buy into South African Airways. The airline needs a minimum of 10 billion rand ($583 million) to resume operations. Therefore these talks are critical as there is a lot at sta… read more

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• 24/08/2020 05:52

Virgin Atlantic returns to Lagos on Sept 10

Virgin Atlantic Airways said that it would resume flight services to Nigeria from September 10, 2020, barely 11 days after the reopening of the airspace. The Federal Government had last Monday in Abuja disclosed plans to reopen the international airspace for flight operations on August 29, 2020.

Airlines can only operate to t… read more

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• 24/08/2020 05:52

Waiting on funds from governement to pay voluntary severence packages

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• 23/08/2020 15:14

Dana Air with more flights to Abuja, restarts Owerri, Port Harcourt to Abuja August 28

Dana Air has announced that it will introduce additionalflights between Abuja and Lagos and commence Lagos to Owerri, Port Harcourt to Abuja from 28th August.

Commenting on the airline’s increase in frequency, the Accountable Manager of Dana Air Obi Mbanuzuo said,  “We introduced these additional flights ba… read more

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• 22/08/2020 06:44

More than 3,000 employees accept severance package

South African Airways (SAA) has approved the voluntary severance packages of over 3,000 employees. This forms part of the company’s winding down of the state-owned entity following the approval of the business rescue process last month.

SAA is retrenching over 3,700 employees as part of its restructuring process.  A t… read more

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• 22/08/2020 05:34

Air Peace Boss applaudes Aviation Minister For Flight Reciprocity Policy

The Federal Government has been commended for its plan to activate the reciprocity policy in granting permissionto airlines as the country reopens its international gateways for flight operations. Reciprocity is one of the policies in the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) as stipulated by the International Civil Aviation Organ… read more

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• 21/08/2020 13:42

NCAA to Certify International Airlines Before Resumption

Contrary to the reports that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has approved some international carriers for the resumption flights expected to commence on August 29, the regulatory authority has said foreign airlines must abide by certain Covid-19 protocols. The agency said international airlines flying into the c… read more

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• 21/08/2020 02:03

Mango Airlines CEO moving to Europe

CEO of Mango AirlinesSOC Ltd, Nico Bezuidenhout, has resigned his appointment at the South African company to head up a European airline.

Following the departure of the CFO and director of flight operations who left earlier, Bezuidenhout becomes the third executive to depart from Mango, a low-cost airline, and subsi… read more

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• 21/08/2020 02:02

KLM returns to Cairo after three-year absence

Cairo is being restored to KLM’s international passenger network after an absence of more than three years. The SkyTeam alliance member, which last served Egypt’s capital city in early 2017, will resume operations from Sept. 9. Flights will be 2X-weekly onboard Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

However, the resu… read more

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• 21/08/2020 02:00

Air France Intercontinental network changes

Air France this week filed changes to its planned Inter-continental service during Northern winter 2020/21 season, effective from 25OCT20 to 27MAR21. Frequency and aircraft changes listed below is based on comparison of GDS schedules as of 20AUG20 vs OAG schedules as of 16AUG20.

Prior to this week’s update, previous listing was … read more