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Too many governments continue to act as if the only tool in their anti-COVID-19 arsenal is a blanket border closure or an inbound quarantine, IATA laments. And this is not without impact on the operational performance of airlines.
Cargo demand by African airlines increased by 24.5% in May, compared to the same month in 2019. This is rev… read more
In line with the IMF's recommendations, Cape Verde had begun, in 2019, a disinvestment plan in several public companies including its airline Cabo Verde Airlines.
But two years later, the State is backtracking against a backdrop of acrimonious tensions with Lofleidir Cabo Verde, the majority shareholder and 70/30 joint … read more
Africa World Airlines is proud to release our operational performance statistics for June 2021, in line with our commitment to transparency.
We scheduled 1,137 flights during the month, and booked over 50,000 passengers racking up 8.8% more than the previous month.
No passengers were denied boarding in the entire month, and o… read more
TANZANIA Forest Service (TFS) has organized a tourism festival aimed at promoting forest conservation and ecotourism to supplement government efforts to increase the number of tourists to 5 million come 2025.
The festival dubbed 'West Kilimanjaro Run and Mountain Forest Bike' will be held on July 10 this year and will include… read more
Zimbabwean low-cost airline fastjet has partnered with Simbisa Brands to allow its customers to purchase tickets at Chicken Inn restaurants across Zimbabwe. Before visiting the restaurant to pay for your ticket, you must first visit fastjet’s website or any fastjet shop or airport office.
Next, you must select which currency … read more
South Africa is one of a handful of countries included in the United Arab Emirates’ rolling set of entry restrictions, which are reviewed every couple of weeks.
The United Arab Emirates imposed entry and flight bans against South Africa on 14 January this year for an initial period of 12 days – as a result of the detection of the Be… read more
An entire herd of elephants from a British zoo will be released into the wild in Kenya in what conservationists have hailed as a world first. The
13 elephants live at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, southern
England, and will be… read more
ONE of the world's leading airlines, Qatar Airways, says it would commence flights into Zambia and Zimbabwe early next month.
The new routes will become the airline's fifth and sixth destinations in Africa since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2019.
Improved flight connectivity is expected to boost tourism op… read more
The digital travel locator app, Jitenge, launched on June 18 for domestic airline travel across all Kenyan ports of entry has recorded a slow uptake, two weeks after its introduction to eliminate physical documents as an anti-Covid measure.
Domestic airline passengers using different airports and ports continue to use … read more
INTERNATIONAL tourists in Namibia will be free to travel the country up to 15 July under the Covid-19 restrictions at this stage.
This has been stated by the minister of environment, tourism and forestry, Pohamba Shifeta, and health and social services minister Kalumbi Shangula in a joint statement.
Under the country's current… read more
African airlines: cargo continues to grow, passenger traffic remains low
Cabo Verde Airlines: the State ejects the Icelanders and renationalises the airline
AWA operational performance for June
Tfs Festival Set to Attract More Tourists
Zimbabwean LCC Fastjet starts sales in Chicken Restaurants
South Africa and the ban from UAE
Elephants to be moved from UK zoo to Kenyan wild in 'world first'
Qatar Airways to commence ops into HRE
Slow digital uptake in domestic air travel
Tourists allowed to travel countrywide
