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SAA achieved high punctuality ranking
IATA considers all arrivals and departures within a time frame of 15 minutes versus schedule as punctual. As per this benchmark, SAA permormed an OTP of almost 86% across its netwo… read more
Ibom Air to expand fleet
The Akwa Ibom State Government (Nigeria, owner of the airline) has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. The chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with newsmen in Uyo (Nigeria) that the new aircraft would reach the fleet most li… read more
Carnival Corporation with four new ships in 2020
The Carnival Corporation, owner of a couple of global cruise ship brands, will bring four new ships into operations in 2020.
Ships leaving the shipbuilding yards in 2020 are Costa Firenze for Italian brand Costa Cruises, Iona for P&O Cruises in the UK, Mardi Gras for Carnival Cr… read more
No more cash payments in hotels?
A reason for this, prizeotel said the the collection and banking of cash was too expensive versus card payments. Is this a trend?
New Route: Entebbe to Johannesburg by Uganda Airlines
Johannesburg will be operated with a Canadair CRJ900 Jet, featuring 12 seats in Business- and 66 seats in Economyclass.… read more
Does Nigeria's Ibom Air expand to Cameroon?
Ibom Air plans to offer flights between Nigerian an Camroon in the near future, an article by the Vanguard Nigeria daily newspaper reports.
As per market research, Nigerian need to travel via Lomé in order to reach an airport in Cameroon. This is the market Ibom Air plans to step in. Both, Lagos and Nigeria should be connected with … read more
Air India offline in SABRE
Quite a known phenomenon in Africa, now also in India: With immedeate effect it is not possible any longer to book any Air India flights through the Global Distribution System (GDS) SABRE.
This news had been spread by SABRE itself via a press release.
“After a successful 20-year relationship, Air India has decided t… read more
TK: CPT to IST - technical problems
A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 which took off from Capetown with destination Istabul as TK 045 on January 2nd was facing technical problems, as it was impossible for the pilots to retract the landing gear.
The airplane stopped climbing and the pilots started to execute as per standrad instructions. The flight in total took more than… read more
Turkish Airlines' next Africa destination: Malabo
Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea is the airlines' latest destination and flights will start into the West African metropole as of February 7th, 2020. These flights int… read more
Mauritius airport back open
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.
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