Travel news Rwanda

• Flights
• 04/10/2020 05:59

FG Increases Int’l Airlines Capacity To 200 Passenger Per Flight To Lagos, Abuja

The Federal Government has increased available seats on the flights of international airlines to 200 passengers per aircraft operating into the two designated airports in the country; Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

Capt. Musa Nuhu, the Di… read more

• Destinations
• 03/10/2020 15:20

ZIM Resumes International Flights

Zimbabwe Thursday resumed international flights after taking a six month COVID-19 forced hiatus since March. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ), three airlines resumed international flights, Fastjet; Harare to Johannesburg, Ethiopian Airlines; Addis Ababa to Harare and Emirates; Dubai to Harare. Kenya Airways … read more

• Miscellaneous
• 03/10/2020 06:50

Africa Tourism Leadership Forum goes Hybrid in Rwanda

The third edition of the pan-African travel showcase, Africa Tourism Leadership Forum (ATLF) is set to take off in Kigali, Rwanda this October. The pan-African tourism leadership event had to postpone the event from the initial July 2020 to 19-21 October 2020 as result of the coronavirus pandemic.

ATLF is a Pan-African dialogue p… read more

• Flights
• 02/10/2020 05:50

Nigeria Immigration Introduces New Visa Policies

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has introduced new visa regimes to citizens of United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates (UAE), France and 147 other countries.

The service said that the new regime, which consists of transit, business (single), business (multiple), tourism, visiting (single), visiting (multiple… read more

• Flights
• 30/09/2020 02:16

EgyptAir restarting services to JNB, EBB, KGL

EgyptAir is gradually restarting its African network as it starts to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among a cluster of new routes being revived over the next few weeks, initially with low frequencies, the airline will restart services between its Cairo (CAI) base and Johannesburg(JNB) on Oct. 8 with a 2X-weekly s… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 28/09/2020 04:55

Ivory Coast ratifies air transport agreement with Rwanda

• Flights
• 25/09/2020 08:28

RwandAir banks on stable routes as flights resume

RwandAir is banking on citizen repatriation and business travellers when the airline finally resumes most of its flights on October 1. The national carrier will also capitalise on its existing network and stable routes as it seeks to salvage the remaining part of the year since tourism remains unreliable.

Some of the fligh… read more

• Flights
• 22/09/2020 06:30

UgandaAirlines; flight schedule effective October 01

Uganda Airlines will resume scheduled flight operations effective 01st of October, now that the airport reopening date has finally been confirmed. Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Juba and Mogadishu will be the first four destinations the airline will fly to, using their CRJ900 aircraft. According to information received from … read more

• Flights
• 21/09/2020 13:59

Rwanda Air resumes Entebbe flights on October 1

Following President Yoweri Museveni’s speech yesterday, where he announced the opening of the international airport and land borders for tourists coming in and going out provided they tested negative for COVID 19 72hours before arrival in Uganda, Rwanda Air has announced that it will resume its operations in and out of Entebbe Internat… read more

• Flights
• 21/09/2020 04:58

Rwandair exchanging LON airports into LHR

RwandAir has announced that it is to resume flights to the European cities of London and Brussels from its hub in Kigali, Rwanda. This service will begin on October 3rd as the African airline works towards rebuilding its passenger network. One notable switch from prior service is that the airline will operate service to London H… read more