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Uganda Airlines now operates into Kinshasa
Uganda Airlines will introduce flights to Kinshasa today. The route will be served three times a week, leaving Entebbe every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday while returning on the same day.
Uganda Airlines is presently already in overdrive with their sales activities across all their destinations, the teams led by commerci… read more
Qatar Airways welcomes inaugural Air Canada flight from Toronto to Doha
Qatar Airways welcomed Air Canada’s inaugural flight from Toronto to Doha, establishing Hamad International Airport as the only airport in the Middle East to be operated with a scheduled service by a North American carrier. The flight was welcomed with a water cannon salute at Hamad International Airport and a ribbon cutting ceremo… read more
LIFT and Menzies Aviation lift off in South Africa
Menzies has been awarded contracts by LIFT at three South African airports, including a ramp handling contract at O R Tambo International (JNB) and Cape Town International (CPT), as well as a passenger and ramp handling contract at George Airport (GRJ).
The first flights handled by Menzies took off on 10 December from Cape T… read more
UNWTO: Tourism back in 1990
International arrivals fell by 72 per cent over the first ten months of 2020, with restrictions on travel, low consumer confidence and a global struggle to contain the Covid-19 virus, all contributing to the worst year on record in the history of tourism. According to the latest tourism … read more
Air Austral postpones Johannesburg-Réunion route
Air Austral has postponed the reintroduction of its Johannesburg-Réunion service from December 20 to January 19.
A spokesperson from the airline confirmed that the Johannesburg flight was now planned to restart on January 19, and that flights between Réunion and Seychelles and Réunion and Antananarivo, Nosy Be and Tolanaro in… read more
Qatar Airways launches San Francisco, key missing part of US network
Qatar Airways began Doha – San Francisco on 15 December. Operating four-weekly, its 13,014-kilometre route uses A350-900s. Of course, its schedule is – like its other North American routes – effectively the same to drive connectivity.
While Doha P2P demand is minimal (7,000 round-trip in 2019),… read more
Air Peace Johannesburg launch: Nigerian airlines just need enabling environment to thrive – Onyema
AIR PEACE yesterday launched operations into Johannesburg, South Africa with lofty plans of establishing a threshold on the route and reestablish a direct connection severed by the COVID-19 pandemic and other extraneous forces.
The 17th December 2020 flight is the inaugural flight into South Africa and the first official sche… read more
Qatar Airways back to the Seychelles
Destination Seychelles welcomes Qatar Airways back on its shores as the airline landed at the Seychelles International airport of Pointe Larue on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at 8:55 am.
The national airline of the State of Qatar announced the resumptions of flights to Seychelles earlier in December with an operation of three… read more
Sabre and Lufthansa sign new contract
Sabre has reached a distribution agreement with Lufthansa Group to provide content both through the traditional global distribution system model as well as new commercial models using the New Distribution Capability, according to the companies.
The agreement follows a long negotiation process that extended beyond the p… read more
Kenya Airways to start flights to Somaliland
Kenya Airways (KQ) is set to launch direct flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in March following a deal inked by President Uhuru Kenyatta, a move that could harden conflict between Nairobi and Mogadishu.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the two heads of state r… read more
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