Travel news overview

• Destinations
• 06/04/2020 07:10

Rwanda reopens cross-province transport

The Rwandan cabinet on Tuesday approved resumption of transport between provinces and motorcycle passenger service, which had been banned previously as COVID-19 preventive measures.

However, cross-province transport to and from districts of Rusizi and Rubavu in western Rwanda and motorcycles carrying passengers in the two border tow… read more

• Rail
• 31/03/2020 14:41

Uganda rail service effected

Uganda Railroad as announced to halt all pessenger services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All passenger train services were already suspended on March 23rd 2020 until further notice. Freight trains will continue to operate.

• Rail
• 31/03/2020 14:39

TAZARA without cross border traffic

From next week, the TAZARA passenger trains will not cross the border between Tanzania and Zambia. Instead, the passenger trains will run within the respective boundaries of Tanzania and Zambia.

• Flights
• 31/03/2020 14:22

Also Proflight Zambia halts flights

However, Proflight has already published a reduced schedule for the period between 1st of May and 30th of June 2020

• Flights
• 31/03/2020 14:15

Mahogany Air suspends all flights

• Miscellaneous
• 31/03/2020 11:11

Expo 2020 expected to be postponed until next year

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates are expected to announce the postponement of Dubai Expo 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage global hospitality. The jamboree was expected to begin on October 20th this year, kicking-off six months of celebrations in the emirate.

However, with global tourism in a virtual lockdown, org… read more

• Rail
• 31/03/2020 07:18

Uganda Rail halted

In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, passenger train services in Uganda were suspended on March 23rd 2020 until further notice. However, freight trains will continue to operate.

• Flights
• 31/03/2020 05:40

QATAR to increase capacity

With QATAR Airways it is not like this; Qatar has just increased the number of availabe seats and as per www.flightradar24.com, Qatar is the airlines with the highest number of airlines in the skies at the moment. The airlines has announced to re-start the full schedule i… read more

• Leisure
• 31/03/2020 05:25

Dana offers fleet to the governement to fight COVID-19

CEO of Dana Air, Jacky Hathiramani, wrote in a letter to the Nigerian Minister of Aviation and said, the airline would make resources, aircraft in its fleet and crew for the national assignment available whenever needed or requested. H… read more

• Flights
• Miscellaneous
• 22/03/2020 16:22

Airline Giant EMIRATES suspends all passenger flights

"The world is in quarantine" - this is a statement of Emirates chairman Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

As of next Wednesday, 25th of March, Emirates will shut down its world-wide passenger operations, whereas all cargo operations will remain active. Emirates is looking very sceptical into the future as the outlook and the future demand most likely would be very low.