Travel news overview

• Flights
• 07/09/2020 18:09

AWA resumes international flights

• Flights
• 07/09/2020 13:25

EGYPTAIR NW20 South / East Asia service changes as of 04SEP20

EGYPTAIR in recent schedule update filed service adjustment to South and East Asia, for winter 2020/21 season. Planned adjustment from 25OCT20 as follows. Due to ongoing situation, additional amendments is likely.

Cairo – Bangkok Reduce from 3 to 2 weekly, A330-300 operating
Cairo – Beijing Capital… read more

• Flights
• 07/09/2020 13:25

Delta Sep 2020 Atlanta – Lagos service adjustment

Delta this month is adjusting Atlanta – Lagos service, which sees the Skyteam member operates Atlanta – Dakar – Lagos with Boeing 767-300ER, instead of nonstop with A330-200. The 767 1-stop flight is scheduled from 08SEP20 to 30SEP20 (US departure), operating 4 times weekly. DL does not have local traffic rights for Atlan… read more

• Beyond Africa
• 07/09/2020 13:23

Aeroflot resumes regular flights to Dubai, Cairo and Maldives

Aeroflot in September will resume international flights to Dubai, Cairo and Malé (Maldives). Flights to Cairo will resume from 9 September on the following schedule:

Flight SU400 Sheremetyevo - Cairo on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.Return flight SU401 Cairo - Sheremetyevo on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Flights to Mal… read more

• Conservation & Wildlife
• 07/09/2020 13:22

More Gorillas born in Uganda, a huge boost to primate tourism

Just when the country thought it had seen the last of the baby boomers for a while, a fifth gorilla birth was witnessed in Uganda when a baby mountain gorilla was born in Buhoma located in the northern sector of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Southwestern Uganda.

The Rushegura gorilla family welcomed the bouncing baby gorilla … read more

• Flights
• 07/09/2020 10:06

Kenya Airways Looking To Return Some Leased Aircraft Early

Due to the drop in passenger numbers, Kenya Airways (KQ) has decided to send back some of its planes earlier than its stipulated return date. At the same time, the East African carrier is in the process of transforming some of its Boeing 787s into freighters. The airline has resumed flying domestically and internationally for over … read more

• Destinations
• Conservation & Wildlife
• 07/09/2020 10:06

Uganda opens tourism parks

Ugandaon Saturday announced that it has fully opened all its national parks as the country continues to ease lockdown restrictions. Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a state owned conservation agency, said in a statement issued here that all parks including the primate parks are open after instituting standard operating proce… read more

• Flights
• 06/09/2020 04:28

Emirates NW20 Network changes

Emirates in the last 48 – 72 hours further filed schedule changes for Northern winter 2020/21 season. Latest adjustment as of 2100GMT 05SEP20 sees additional service reduction, including previously planned reduction in November being expanded to entire winter season.

Further changes remain highly possible. Due to … read more

• Flights
• 06/09/2020 04:28

Brussels Airlines to use only 23% of pre-Covid capacity

In interviews on Saturday to L’Echo and La Libre Belgique, Brussels Airlines CEO Dieter Vranckx said he hoped to reach 40% of the airline’s capacity by the end of September, but for the moment he has to limit the aircraft use at 23%. After a  relatively good summer, this month is indeed catastrophic for attendance due to the p… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 06/09/2020 04:27

Akwaaba African Travel Market to be a virtual summit

The 4th edition of the African Travel and Tourism Conference is scheduled to take place as a virtual event on September 21, 2020.

Organized as part of the annual Akwaaba African Travel Market, the leading Pan-African Tourism Expo, the African Travel and Tourism Conference is in its fourth year. The theme for this… read more