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Virgin Voyages has pushed back its launch of cruises until October 16th and has introduced a double cruise credit to reward passengers for their patience. In a memo sent to travel partners Wednesday, the world’s newest cruise line also announced that the much-anticipated Richard’s Birthday Bash sailing would be rescheduled for July 14th, … read more
Silversea Cruises has confirmed that two of its new cruise ships, Silver Moon and Silver Origin, will face delivery delays due to disruption caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Silver Moon has been delayed by two months, while Silver Origin, … read more
In an interview published today by Financial Times, Sir Tim Clark stated that Emirates plans to deploy all its aircraft in the summer of 2022 and won’t retire a large part of the airline’s 115 superjumbos, as some suggested last weekend citing sources close to the airline.
Speaking about the A380s, Clark said: “We’re … read more
Two of the world’s leading cruise companies, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line, have indicated that they will resume cruises without the traditional cruise ship buffet, as part of efforts to prevent the spread of viruses.
In a virtual Coffee Chat call with Royal Caribbean’s Senior Vice President of Sales … read more
Expecting a “meaningful” return, Etihad Airways (EY) announced July 16 as the resumption date for regular passenger flights, according to its CEO, Tony Douglas. In an interview with CNN, Douglas said that these efforts were “small steps [taken] in a very controlled way” as a regular schedule during these times also meant there were… read more
With some major setbacks hitting the country in this lockdown period, Weekly speaks to Rundheersing Bheenick, former governor of the Bank of Mauritius. He shares his views on what or who he thinks is the main culprit in the State Bank of Mauritius’ woes and the role of the Bank of Mauritius as regulator and supervisor. He also gives his opinions… read more
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) is frantically working on restoring train operations following a disruption occasioned by a landslide that occurred on 30th April 2020 around the Mwakanga area, 32 kilometres South-West of Dar es Salaam.
The landslide was caused by heavy and persistent rainfall in the area, which weaken… read more
Air Mauritius wishes to inform the public that all its international commercial passenger flights will remain suspended until 30 June 2020. We will, however, continue the operation of repatriation flights and maintain our scheduled commercial cargo operations.
Our flights are scheduled to resume on the 1st of July subject to all con… read more
Ethiopian Airlines in recent schedule update revised planned Addis Ababa – London Heathrow route, for the remainder of summer 2020 season. The Star Alliance will be operating this route 7 weekly, instead of planned 10 weekly flights. Airbus A350-900XWB aircraft operates this route.
ET700 ADD0035 – 0650LHR 350 5… read more
Air Senegal in recent schedule update filed changes to Dakar – Barcelona – Marseille – Dakar route. The airline will continue to operate this route with A330-900neo aircraft 3 times weekly, upon service resumption from 01JUL20. Previously planned 4th weekly flight from 28JUN20 to 06SEP20 is no longer in effect.
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