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The Portfolio Committee on Tourism, (National Assembly), received a briefing from the Department of Tourism on its First Quarter Performance Report for the 2020/21 financial year.
The 2020/21 Quarter 1 report is made against the backdrop of the budget adjustments that were made due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An amount of R1 billion w… read more
The liquidator of the defunct Belgian company Challengair calls for the liquidation of Air Namibia. This was the result of her non-payment of monthly installments of $ 24.2 million, ordered by two European courts. This is compensatory compensation for debts owed under an aircraft rental agreement concluded in 1998 with Challengair.… read more
Air Zimbabwe has taken delivery of its second Boeing 777-200ER, following receipt of the first in January. Taken from Malaysia Airlines, the loss-making and heavily indebted carrier is considering leasing them. Air Zimbabwe has an active fleet of two aircraft. Her Embraer 145 is currently in C-check in South Africa.
Air Zimbabwe's s… read more
In Cape Verde, the Council of Ministers will approve this week, a resolution authorizing the resumption of international flights in the country. On August 1, the country opened up to "essential flights" to and from Portugal. Domestic connections, meanwhile, have been in effect since July 15.
International flights to and fr… read more
The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of an 83.5-kilometer-long first section of the new standard gauge western railway from Kumasi to Obuasi was carried out by the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020. The project is part of a plan to develop standard gauge railroad lines that will be built by t… read more
After a press release last night, the situation has changed again:
Emirates announced service to South Africa will resume in full tomorrow, with flights to Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg operating. Crews will not be required to submit negative COVID-19 tests, but will be required to self-isolate in… read more
In case you haven’t already done the math – it is now 8 months since China
announced the first major shutdown of 20% of the domestic flights and a
few international flights back in lat… read more
ATPCO launched a new format of Routehappy Rich Content: Structured UPAs (Universal Product Attributes). With the introduction of Structured UPAs, airlines and channels now have greater flexibility in how they display essential retailing content using more comparable, concise, and sortable data that can be presented to emphas… read more
Ethiopian Airlines in recent schedule update filed changes to its South East Asia service for the month of November 2020, from 25OCT20 to 30NOV20. During this period, planned service to South East Asia includes the following.
Ongoing travel restrictions continue to impact the airline’s passenger traffic rights on certain directi… read more
The Government of Liberia (GOL) and Ghanaian carrier Goldstar Air (GSA) have signed a strategic partnership to revive the National Airline of the country. The new national carrier of Liberia has been named and branded as LONE STAR AIR (Wings Of Liberia) and will initially be flying to eleven West African des… read more
South Africa Committee on Tourism welcomes the Tourism Recovery Plan
Air Namibia again threatened with liquidation for 22-year debt owed to the late Challengair
Air Zimbabwe takes delivery of its 2nd Boeing 777-200ER
Cape Verde: towards the imminent resumption of international flights
Work begins on the 83.5-kilometer Kumasi-Obuasi standard gauge railway
EK suspends flights into South Africa - and resumes
Corporate Travel: A glass quarter-full is still a lot
ATPCO launches new rich content format: Structured UPAs
Ethiopian Airlines Nov 2020 South East Asia actual operations
Goldstar Air & Liberian Govt to partner in reviving Nat'l Airline
