Travel news Angola

• Destinations
• 05/06/2020 14:57

Operators see Tourism Potential in Southern Angola

Economic operators Wednesday stressed in an internet forum that the tourist potential of southern Angola could attract thousands of international tourists into the country, a fact that will boost the tourist industry and the diversification of the economy.

With the support of a virtual "zoom" platform, an initiative of the Portal Hotéis de… read more

• Flights
• 29/05/2020 09:51

First TAAG dash-8-400 Ready for Delivery

The first de Havilland Aircraft of Canada dash-8-400 for Luanda - based TAAG Angola Airlines – Linhas Aereas de Angola (DT/DTA) is near completion of its flight test program.

Dash-8-400 c/n 4616, Canadian test registration C-GKXM, which will become D2-TFA, named ‘Kwanza’, made its first flight on May 20 2020. It will be the first no… read more

• Opinion
• 24/05/2020 05:59

Mauritius: "Our airline has been hijacked by a bunch of escaped lunatics”

With some major setbacks hitting the country in this lockdown period, Weekly speaks to Rundheersing Bheenick, former governor of the Bank of Mauritius. He shares his views on what or who he thinks is the main culprit in the State Bank of Mauritius’ woes and the role of the Bank of Mauritius as regulator and supervisor. He also gives his opinions… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 21/05/2020 17:43

Angola Picks Lebanese Group Africell as Fourth Telecoms Operator

Angola on Tuesday awarded the licence for its fourth telecoms network to Lebanese group Africell, as sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest oil producer opens other economic sectors to foreign competition.

Africell is already present in four African countries -- Gambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Uganda. Angola had awarded… read more

• Flights
• 21/05/2020 06:36

COVID-19: Middle East and Africa market update

Middle East capacity

Following steep double-digit drops in recent weeks, the rate of capacity decline from and within the Middle East slowed last week (w/c May 11) to 2.7%. In total there were 1 million departure seats in the region’s market, a slight fall of 28,000 seats week-on-week. However, the figure meant that the Middle East’… read more

• Flights
• 16/05/2020 08:39

Angola: Bestfly receives its second ATR72-600

• Rail
• 20/02/2020 04:22

Luanda Surface Metro: Contructions to start this year

It is expected the constructions to begin already in 2020. Part of the city council master plan is to build two suface metro systems.

• Flights
• 19/02/2020 04:27

AIRLINK takes over SAA routes

Airlink, the privately-owned South African airline, will continue to operate services between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, Entebbe, Ndola and Luanda after 29 February 2020.

Business as usual, this is what Airlink communicates on all channles. And yes, this is basically true as there are no changes on the already published … read more

• Flights
• 07/02/2020 11:09

Press Release: AIRLINK WILL CONTINUE OPERATING ON ROUTES ABANDONED BY SAA

Airlink, the privately-run South African airline, will operate services linking Johannesburg with Port Elizabeth, Entebbe, Ndola and Luanda after 29 February 2020, even though its franchise partner, SAA, will stop serving those destinations from that date.

“We want to reassure travellers that as far as Airlink is … read more

• Flights
• 19/01/2020 21:45

Qatar Airways new to Accra and Luanda

Operations with daily flights into Accra will start mid of April 2020. Luanda in Angola, 4-time per week, will be served as of 14th of October 2020.