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SAA in business rescue
The Board of SAA (South African Airways), supported by the governement of South Africa has decided to place the SAA into business rescue. A press statement says, this would be "the optimal mechanism to restore confidence in SAA and to safeguard the good assets of SAA and help to restructure and reposition the entity into one that is stronger,… read more
Eritrean Airlines acquires new airplane
CamAir flight shot with arms during landing in Bamenda
Cameroon Airline Corporation said, one of its airplanes, a MA60 aircraft, has been shot with firearms approaching Bamenda Airport from Douala. As per airline statement, the incident took place on December 1st around 10am.
The crew was able to land the airplane safely even there was some damage at the fuselage; as a consequence, the aircraf… read more
SAA to merge with Ethiopian?
Air Zimbabwe halts operations today
Today, on the 2nd of December 2019, Air Zimbabwe did not operate any flights. The airline said that this was because of "operational limitations beyond its control". Air Zimbabwe said that they would resume operations, tomorrow, the 3rd of December 2019.
Buyout of Kenya Airways Investors?
Flight Centre stops selling SAA
Flight Centre Travel Group, the international travel agency, has stopped selling tickets in SAA South African Airways as per media report on businesslive.co.za. Reason for this was that a travel insurance company said, it would no longer cover SAA tickets against insolvency.
Air India back in Kenya after 10 years
Ten years of absence have ended last week: Air India operated its first scheduled flight into Nairobi. Coming from Mumbai, the aircraft carried 100 passengers on board.
Flights will operate now four (4) flights per week and is willing, as per customer demand, to increase the frequency. Of course Air India is connecting Kenya through their … read more
Third carrier on the Kigali to Nairobi route
TAAG includes Lagos into network
As of mid of december, 2019, TAAG Angola Airlines will connect the capital of Angola, Luanda with Lagos in Nigeria.
From 16DEC19, this route will be served twice weekly and operated on a Boeing B737-700
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