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TAP Air Portugal in last week’s schedule update revised planned new long-haul network addition. Additional adjustment now sees the removal of planned service to Cancun and Cape Town for Northern winter season, previously scheduled from mid-December 2020 (original launch date was 27OCT20 and 11NOV20 respectively).
Latest adjustme… read more
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi (5W) last week revised planned service launch, as the airline delays planned service by 2 weeks, from 16OCT20 instead of 01OCT20. Latest adjustment as follows.
Abu Dhabi – Athenseff 16OCT203 weekly A321neo (Previous plan: eff 02OCT20)
Abu Dhabi – Borg el Arab (Alexandria)… read more
Last Thursday, the new port terminal was finally opened in Tokyo. The opening was originally planned for the Olympic Games, but it was also postponed due to the corona pandemic. Now the terminal has been completed and would be ready for operation - but the cruise ships will be absent for the time being due to the current situation.… read more
As the Kotoka International Airport, Ghana, resumes flight operations after months of closure occasioned by the pandemic, thirteen international airlines has expressed their readiness to recommence flight into the West Africa country.
According graphic.com.gh, although some of the international airlines, including Ethiopia… read more
The carnage wrought by the global pandemic on the travel industry continues, with the announcement that popular youth adventure travel company TrekAmerica has closed down.
This news has been met with dismay by generations of young South Africans, Britons, Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans who became ‘trekkers’ across the Ame… read more
ARIK Air, in the face of the union’s threat to down tools tomorrow Monday, September 14, 2020 have written to the Minister of Labour and Employment appealing for an intervention in seeking for the understanding and cooperation of the workers’ unions; while explaining some key issues in the disagreementThis is just as the airline states th… read more
The Middle Eastern carrier Etihad is following in the shoes of Emirates as it returns to Casablanca in the coming days. The airline will operate three flights per week to the large port city on the West coast of Morocco.Services will begin from Saturday September 19th, and run three times per week. Flight number EY613 will l… read more
Fastjet ZIMBABWE has now confirmed that their domestic flights will commence effective Monday, 21st of September 2020. Flights between Harare and Bulawayo will operate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, starting 21st of September 2020.
Flights between Harare and Victoria Falls will operate every Thursday and Su… read more
TWO unions, the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) have once again directed all its staff in Arik Air (apart from Pilots and Engineers) to withdraw all services with effect from 00hrs on 14th September, 2020.This, according to the uni… read more
Over 75 percent of the rooms in Seychelles' 418 tourism establishments have received safe tourism certificates and are in a position to welcome visitors, though not all of them are open, the tourism minister said. Didier Dogley said about 4,700 out of 6,000 rooms at hotels, guest houses and self-catering establishments have achieve… read more
TAP Air Portugal moves Cancun / Cape Town launch to 2021
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi delays service launch to mid-Oct 2020
New Cruise Terminal in Tokyo
13 airlines ready to operate into reopened Kotoka airport
TrekAmerica has closed down
Union unrest: Arik Air seeks intervention from Ministry of Labour
Etihad Airways follows Emirates: Morocco flight resumption
Fastjet Zimbabwe flight relaunch dates
75% of Seychelles' Hotels and Guest Houses certified Covid safe
