Travel news overview

• Flights
• 16/02/2020 06:49

Nigeria's Green Africa Airways goes shopping

Not even airborne, but Nigeria's Green Africa Airways is currently in the second stage of fleet planning. If you have a closer look into that, it becomes very clear: something very big might happen in Nigeria.

The Lagos-based start-up airline - already in 2018 - had announced plans to buy 100 Boeing 737 MAX. The B737 MAX is not… read more

• Flights
• 10/02/2020 13:05

Air Senegal starts flights to Geneva

Geneva is the latest new destination of Air Senegal.

Beginning as of 18th of June 2020, Air Senegal will combind Dakar with Geneva in Switzerland. This new service will be operated 3-times per week (Monday, Thursday and Saturday) on an Airbus A320 with a total of 165 seats, with 16 in Business- and 149 in Economy class.

• Flights
• 10/02/2020 12:22

ET increases capacity to Oslo

As of 25th of June 2020, Ethiopian Airlines will increase the frequencies of flights between Addis Ababa and Oslo in Norway.

Instead of 4 weekly flights, as of June Ethiopian Airlines will offer five (5) weekly flights between both cities, all operated with Boeing B787 Dreamliner. ET is the only airline offering regula… read more

• Travel-tech
• 08/02/2020 14:19

SABRE and Arcor to built joint tech platform for global hospitality

Sabre Corporation and Accor announced that they plan tu build the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the global hospitality industry.

In collaboration with Accor, Sabre intends to develop a new full service property management capability and enrich its existing… read more

• Flights
• 07/02/2020 11:09

Press Release: AIRLINK WILL CONTINUE OPERATING ON ROUTES ABANDONED BY SAA

Airlink, the privately-run South African airline, will operate services linking Johannesburg with Port Elizabeth, Entebbe, Ndola and Luanda after 29 February 2020, even though its franchise partner, SAA, will stop serving those destinations from that date.

“We want to reassure travellers that as far as Airlink is … read more

• Flights
• 07/02/2020 08:46

SAA major changes - business rescue

SAA has announced to cut the domestic network in complete; only the route between Capetown and Johannsburg remain, but even here with lower frequency… read more

• Flights
• 02/02/2020 06:04

RwandAir uses Lufthansa technology for better price & scedule display

Lufthansa System has granted RwandAir access to its NetLine/Sched and ProfitLine/Price solutions, which optimize the airline’s complex flight schedule to more efficiently determine the best ticket prices, based on the current market situation as well as supply and demand.

NetLine/Sched, the schedule management system from Luf… read more

• Flights
• 02/02/2020 06:04

Ethiopian Airlines continues operations to China

Most of the airlines have suspended thei operation into China as a precaution of the coronavirus, Ethiopian Airlines has not stopped flights into China, even after the WHO World Health Organization has declared the situation as a "global health emergency."

Ethiopian runs business as usual and thanked China on a Twitter post for its … read more

• Miscellaneous
• 01/02/2020 10:12

Economic Outlook for Africa 2020

The African Development Bank has published the 2020 edition of its African Economic Outlook (AEO) report. Bank's economic experts have been workinmg on this report and it serves as a tool for policymakers, academics, investors, as well as, development and financial industry professionals. Africa’s economic growth stabilised at 3… read more

• Beyond Africa
• 01/02/2020 09:20

Costa Smeralda passengers released from quarantine

Passengers on Costa Smeralda have been released from quarantine after two Chinese guests tested negative for the coronavirus. Italian health officials diagnosed a passenger on board the ship, docked in Civitavecchia, north of Rome, with common flu.

More than 6,000 passengers had been locked for 12 hours until the results had been re… read more