Travel news overview

• Rail
• 08/10/2020 07:32

Work begins on the 83.5-kilometer Kumasi-Obuasi standard gauge railway

• Flights
• 08/10/2020 07:28

EK suspends flights into South Africa - and resumes

After a press release last night, the situation has changed again:

Emirates announced service to South Africa will resume in full tomorrow, with flights to Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg operating. Crews will not be required to submit negative COVID-19 tests, but will be required to self-isolate in… read more

• Opinion
• 08/10/2020 07:22

Corporate Travel: A glass quarter-full is still a lot

In case you haven’t already done the math – it is now 8 months since China announced the first major shutdown of 20% of the domestic flights and a few international flights back in lat… read more

• Travel-tech
• 08/10/2020 06:54

ATPCO launches new rich content format: Structured UPAs

ATPCO launched a new format of Routehappy Rich Content: Structured UPAs (Universal Product Attributes). With the introduction of Structured UPAs, airlines and channels now have greater flexibility in how they display essential retailing content using more comparable, concise, and sortable data that can be presented to emphas… read more

• Flights
• 08/10/2020 06:45

Ethiopian Airlines Nov 2020 South East Asia actual operations

Ethiopian Airlines in recent schedule update filed changes to its South East Asia service for the month of November 2020, from 25OCT20 to 30NOV20. During this period, planned service to South East Asia includes the following.

Ongoing travel restrictions continue to impact the airline’s passenger traffic rights on certain directi… read more

• Flights
• 08/10/2020 06:42

Goldstar Air & Liberian Govt to partner in reviving Nat'l Airline

The Government of Liberia (GOL) and Ghanaian carrier Goldstar Air (GSA) have signed a strategic partnership to revive the National Airline of the country. The new national carrier of Liberia has been named and branded as LONE STAR AIR (Wings Of Liberia) and will initially be flying to eleven West African des… read more

• Accomodation
• 08/10/2020 06:41

City Lodge Hotel Group Has Your Weekend Sorted

As more travellers start to emerge from their homes to shake off cabin fever, City Lodge Hotel Group has launched its Summer Campaign to help finances go further this festive season. After the success of its Weekend Special rates launched in August 2020, the group is now extending this rate to include all weekdays too. From 1 Decembe… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 08/10/2020 06:40

Mauritius-LFC commercial partnership to streghten country branding

The Government of Mauritius is deeply committed to enhancing and expanding the image of Mauritius as a prime tourism, investment and export destination, around the world. The devastating global impact of COVID-19 has only increased the importance of the country’s international branding strategy. Ensuring its success, will be vital … read more

• Flights
• 08/10/2020 06:40

Emirates to recommence flight into Nigeria from today

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will resume issuance of visiting visas to Nigerian travellers from Wednesday, while its carrier, Emirates would recommence flight into the country from Thursday. A source close to UAE Government told our correspondent that Nigerians seeking to get entrance visa into the country could apply through its platforms.… read more

• Flights
• 08/10/2020 06:38

Air Austral resumes flights to Nosy Be island in Madagascar

This follows the latest announcements and government requests formalising the reopening of the island of Nosy Be to international travellers since October 1, 2020.

“The reopening of Nosy Be is an important step forward for Air Austral. After several months of paralysis, this first relaunch marks the gradual … read more