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"The world is in quarantine" - this is a statement of Emirates chairman Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.
As of next Wednesday, 25th of March, Emirates will shut down its world-wide passenger operations, whereas all cargo operations will remain active. Emirates is looking very sceptical into the future as the outlook and the future demand most likely would be very low.
Reed Travel Exhibitions has published the decision to postpone the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) to 28th June – 1st July 2020, at the Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai, U.A.E.Due to the escalation of the COVID-19 epidemic around the world, after consultation with all our stakeholders,… read more
As a consequence of decreasing reservations, the Lufthansa Group has announced to adapt the schedule for the next six weeks.
Roughly 23,000 flight, most of them within Europe and Asia, have been taken out of the schedule and therefore, these flight have dissapeared on all booking channels. Lufthansa announced that they are… read more
The African Development Bank has published the 2020 edition of its African Economic Outlook (AEO) report. Bank's economic experts have been workinmg on this report and it serves as a tool for policymakers, academics, investors, as well as, development and financial industry professionals. Africa’s economic growth stabilised at 3… read more
Etihad Airways, based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has announced to waive rebookings and cancellations to and from China a result of the outbreak of the Corona virus in China itself.
For the moment this waivers will be granted until 29th of February 2020.
At 10: 30am local time, the Mauritius authorities have declared operations at the airport as safe and have reopened the same. The shut down had lasted almost 24 hrs. A lot of airplanes are standed in the region, for instance at La Reunion or Madagascar, even in Mombasa - Kenya. It will take quite a time to come back to normal schedule.
Having tropical cyclone Calvinia in the vicinity of Mauritius, the Mauritius authorities have decided to close the airport of the island. Airlines like SAA, Kenya Airways, Lufthansa, Eurowings, Condor, Edelweiss, Austrian, Turkish Airlines, Air Austral, etc. cannot operate into the island anylonger.
SAA has planned some extra flights for t… read more
According to Malawi 24, the rehabilitation of the main runway of the second important airport platform in Malawi, Blantyre, has been completed. According to the Malawi Minister of Transport and Public Works, the airport will resume receiving large aircraft from January 2020.
"I am pleased to inform the airlines that the runway rehabilitati… read more
The NIS (Nigeria Immigration Service) stated the Federal Government had approved that all Africans could come to Nigeria without Visa effective January 2020. This statement followed another statemont of Nigeras President Buhari. Buhari had attended the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa, held in Egypt.
During this … read more
One of the most important tourist magnets in Southern Africa, located straight on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Victoria falls are almost dry at the moment. It seems to be quite normal that the water level especially on the Zambian side is quite poor during the dry season, however, as per hydrologues, this year the amount of water … read more
Airline Giant EMIRATES suspends all passenger flights
LH group to cancel 23,000 flights until end of April
Etihad waivers because coronavirus
Mauritius airport back open
Blantyre International Airport ready for wide-body aircraft in January 2020
Visa on Arrival for all Africans in Nigeria
