Travel news overview

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• 17/10/2019 04:08

Asky Airlines route update

The service from Lomé to Contonou and Bangui will see increaseing capacity and this service will be operated all week long, seven times per week.

Further, Asky Airlines, will not extend the Cotonou (COO) serivce anylonger into Niamey. Instead of this, the serivce from Lome (LWF) to Ouagadougou… read more

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• 17/10/2019 04:01

Air Senegal continues route openings

Effective already on the 3rd of December 2019, Air Senegal introduces a new route between Dakar and Casablanca.

This daily service will be operated by Airbus A319 and allows to connect via Dakar to Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Conakry and Ouagadougou.

• Flights
• 10/10/2019 10:12

Air Senegal to increase the capacity into Banjul

Air Senegal will significantly increase the number of provided seat on its route between Dakar and Banjul; instead of 3-times Air Senegal will operate this service as of October 27th, 2019 on a daily basis.

Further, the flight times have been slightly changed in order to reach flight from and to Europe in Banjul as well as in Dakar.

• Flights
• 08/10/2019 19:43

Air Peace to operate dayly between Lagos and Johannesburg

Ai Peace, one of tha most important carriers in Nigeria, has been granted with traffic rights between Lagos (Nigeria) and Johannesburg in South Africa. The service will start "as soon as possible" and operated on a Air Peace B777.

The serivce has been announce to operate on a daily basis.

Since Arik Air has disconneted … read more

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• 08/10/2019 19:36

Qatar will operate into Luanda

As of March 2020, Qatar will operate up to 5 times per week between the costal capital of Angola, Luanda and Qatar.

The service, operated by Boeing 787 Dreamline will connect Luanda maily into the airlines' network into the Middle east and Asia. All flights will be operated via Qatar.

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• 29/09/2019 08:47

Qatar announces end of A380

Qatar Airways, the five star carrier from the Middle East has announced last week to end the operations of the world-largest passenger airplane, the Airbus A380.

Mr Badr Al Meer, the operational head of Doha airport said, after a 0 years duration in service the A380s would be taken out of Qatar Airways fleet. Another airline to remove the A380 from their fleets.

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• 24/09/2019 11:52

Cabo Verde Airlines operates into Lagos

Cabo Verde Airlines will start flying from Sal to Lagos in Nigeria, from December 9, 2019 - in time to catch customers for the holiday season.

This service between Sal and Lagos will be operated five times weekly on aBoeing 757 with 161 economy class seats and 22 executive seats.The inaugural flight is scheduled for December 9th, 2019.

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• 24/09/2019 11:44

Uganda Air: Back in the skies after almost 20 years absence

In 2001 Uganda Airlines was grounded due to financial problems. Now they are back.

Uganda Airlines, that used to be the name of the Uganda flag carrier, has performed its first flight after almost 20 years beein non-operational. Today the airlines is newly certified and the fleet consits of two Bombardier CRJ900 at the moment. The f… read more

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• 24/09/2019 11:07

Kenya Airways cuts services to Cotonou and Duala

As of next month, Kenya Airways will discontinue its services to Douala in Cameroon and Cotonou in Benin.

On all distribution systems there are no reservations possible anylonger for dates on and after the 14th of October, 2019. Kenya Airways operated this route on the already small aircraft type Embraer E190, three times weekly as a triangle flight.

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• 19/09/2019 16:13

Africa World Airways opens new route to Wa

Africa World Airways announced a new route to the city of Wa, located in the Northwest of Ghana.

The service will kick off on October 16th, 2019 and operate three times weekly on the Africa World Airways ERJ145 aircraft. Wa will be served from Accra via Tamale. The 3-letter-code of Wa is "WZA"