Travel news overview

• Flights
• 20/05/2021 05:48

BestFly takes over intra-island flights for Cape Verde

BestFly has grown from an FBO and aviation services business into charter and commercial operations for Angola’s oil and gas industry through to international operations. It began flights in Cape Verde on Monday following the award of the public service contract.

The six-month contract follows the withdrawal of… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 20/05/2021 05:47

FITUR Begins: The Strategic Event For Tourism Recovery

• Flights
• 20/05/2021 05:42

Sirika issues another dateline, says national carrier will commence operations 2022

MINISTER of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, once again says efforts at establishing a national carrier are still in the works as operations may commence in the first quarter of 2022 while using this year, 2021 to do the needful. This is just as he said that the COVID-19 exposed certain economic vulnerabilities in the nation due to its lack of having very… read more

• Flights
• 19/05/2021 19:43

Royal Air Maroc to widen Spanish network

Royal Air Maroc is planning to add a pair of new routes to Barcelona in the coming weeks as the oneworld alliance member continues to rebuild its network between Morocco and Spain. The planned launch of the services comes as air travel in Morocco is expected to formally resume on June 10 when the Nor… read more

• Flights
• 19/05/2021 19:43

Emirates, flydubai combined network to reach 168 destinations

Emirates Airline and LCC flydubai have further expanded their combined network and expect to reach 168 destinations by the end of May. Since resuming their strategic codeshare partnership in early September 2020, close to 500,000 passengers have flown on the  Emirates-flydubai  combined net… read more

• Cruise
• 19/05/2021 19:42

AIDA Cruises confirms AIDAnova for Dubai 2021/22 cruise season

Just days after it appeared to drop its 2021/22 Dubai cruise season for AIDAcosma, AIDA Cruises has confirmed that it will instead be deploying her sister ship AIDAnova in the region.

AIDAnova, which at the time of her launch in 2018 was the world’s first LNG-fueled cruise ship, will homeport in Dubai, cruising roundtrip from the ci… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 19/05/2021 16:29

Travel and Business Tourism: The Foundational Pillars of AfCFTA

The continent of Africa has a land area of 11.7 million square miles (30.37 million square kilometres), which is large enough to fit India, China, the US, Mexico, Japan, and many European nations, combined. With 55 countries and a population of 1.2 billion people (which is expected to double over the next 3 decades to 2.4 billion in 205… read more

• Destinations
• 19/05/2021 16:29

Namibia/Botswana: The Ngoma/Kasane Border Post has been re-opened to the public

Namibia's Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safery and Security (MHAISS) … read more

• Flights
• 19/05/2021 16:14

RwandAir to focus on African routes in new recovery strategy

RwandAir  plans to  focus on  regional routes in order to optimize its  operational cost and boost its financial performance. This was disclosed  by Yvonne Manzi Makolo, the airline’s Chief Executive, during an  interview with The New Times on Monday. Makolo was speaking at the margins of the … read more

• Miscellaneous
• 19/05/2021 14:33

Namibia set to host UNWTO Brand Africa Conference in June

Namibia will host the United Nations World Tourism Organization Regional Conference on Strengthening Brand Africa for the Swift Recovery of the Tourism Sector from the 14 to 16 June in Windhoek. The United Nations World Tourism Regional Director for Africa, Ms. Elcia Grandcourt, has been present in Namibia this past week undertaking a pl… read more