Travel news overview

• Flights
• 06/01/2020 05:03

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

• Travel-tech
• 04/01/2020 08:13

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

• Flights
• 04/01/2020 08:05

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

• Flights
• 04/01/2020 07:52

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

• Flights
• Miscellaneous
• 31/12/2019 08:52

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.

• Flights
• Miscellaneous
• 31/12/2019 04:49

Mauritius airport closed

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

• Flights
• 28/12/2019 06:50

SAA operated first commercial flight on A350

After some weeks of training, South African Airways operated on its first Airbus A350-900 aircraft the first commercial flight, domestically, on 24 December 2019. The flight lead from Johannisburg to Capetown and bac as SA 323 and SA 336 on the return flight.

The aircraft is one of four new Airbus A350-900 jets in South Afric… read more

• Flights
• 27/12/2019 04:46

Kenya Airways issued profit warning

Kenya Airways (KQ) has release a profit warning that it anticipates 25 per cent or more lower earnings for the period ending December 31, 2019 compared to theprevious year.

This leads to widen losses dispite of cost cutting invitiatives in a difficult environment as per hard competition. Fuel, HR and purchase prices of aircrafts were the t… read more

• Flights
• 25/12/2019 04:24

The success story of Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines is truly the prototype of the successful airline. The Ethiopian national company inaugurated Sunday, December 15, 2019, two new international routes. One to Houston in the United States, and the other to Athens in Greece.

Adding these services, Ethiopian Airlines has become the No. 5 carrier in the w… read more

• Flights
• 24/12/2019 06:20

Codeshare agreement between American Airlines and Royal Air Maroc

Effective 26th of December 2019, the Codeshare agreement between Royal Air Maroc and American Airlines will give a lot of new options for travellers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. First, American’s customers will be able to buy Royal Air Maroc flights to Casablanca, Morocco, which will provide seamless connecting service to M… read more