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New Airline for South Africa?
Could a new airline be on the cards for South Africa? Former CEO of Comair, Gidon Novick, plans to start a new domestic airline before the end of 2020. This will take advantage of a travel industry that has changed fundamentally due to COVID-19, requiring more efficiency, cost-consciousness and a simpler way of flying. He plans to use an existin… read more
Mauritius: MTA publishes guidelines to start operations
The Tourism Authority of Mauritius recently released a new set of guidelines that highlight the sanitary measures necessary to be undertaken by the tourism sector for resuming tourism activities. The guidelines have been designed to tourism businesses with specific health and safety solutions to ensure the protection of staff and customer… read more
Tourism Business Council of South Africa says international travel may resume in September
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) says the International travel may resume by September despite the prediction by South Africa’s Department of Tourism that tourism activities would not resume until February 2021
A briefing last month by South Africa’s Department of Tourism stated that tourism wouldn’… read more
Nigeria: test run of Lagos airport this saturday
The Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika says a test run is to be conducted at the Lagos airport to ascertain the level of preparedness of the airport for resumption of flights.
The dry run exercise according to the Minister would come up on Saturday this week the 27 of June to see how things would look like at resu… read more
Virgin to return to JNB in September
Virgin Atlantic plans to relaunch its London Heathrow-Johannesburg route on September 15. Johannesburg is one of 17 destinations that the airline aims to relaunch as soon as travel restrictions are eased.
Head of Middle East, Africa and India of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Liezl Gericke, says the relaunch… read more
Air Mauritius - Understanding the MK crisis
Qatar Airways now back into 45 destinations
Namibia with COVIT-19 improvements
Namibia’s President Dr. Hage G. Geingob (22 June 2020) announced that 13 of the 14 regions of Namibia will migrate from stage three to stage four of the country’s four-stage strategy to exit the coronavirus lockdown at midnight on 29 June 2020. The Erongo Region, which is currently in stage one lockdown, will migrate to stage three at midnight t… read more
Dubai’s Reopening starts in July
Yesterday, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and CEO of Emirates Airlines (EK) and Group, and Chairman of flydubai (FZ) Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum announced that Dubai would once again welcome tourists starting July 7.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the shutdown of touri… read more
Brussels Airlines-Lufthansa Relationship Nearing End
According to La Libre Belgian newspaper, the partnership between Brussels Airlines (SN) and the Lufthansa Group is reaching the end. The partnership could end shortly where Lufthansa Group would put 55% of its shareholding up for sale or in the worst case scenario SN would go bankrupt. The Lufthansa Group, following the wors… read more
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