Travel news overview

• Rail
• 20/02/2020 04:22

Luanda Surface Metro: Contructions to start this year

It is expected the constructions to begin already in 2020. Part of the city council master plan is to build two suface metro systems.

• Flights
• 20/02/2020 04:11

Green Africa leases three more A220

These three airplanes serve to kick off operations of the new airline in 2020. This news pops in just after Green Africa had announced the order 50 planes of the same type, straight from Airbus. This step now is… read more

• Flights
• 20/02/2020 04:00

Mozambique Airlines to connect Pemba and JNB

Effective 30 March 2020, LAM - Mozambique Airlines will connect Pemba (POL) and Johannesburg three times per week with a nonstop service. These flights will be offered Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to OR Tambo International.

At the moment, the only competitor is the South African Airlink, currently still operating un… read more

• Flights
• 19/02/2020 04:33

RAM and BA agree Codeshare

Royal Air Maroc has announced a new codeshare agreement with British Airways, which will open up new routes across Morocco including Casablanca and Agadir. It will also give customers more flight flexibility between London Heathrow and Marrakesh. The new agreement took already effect February 13, and codeshare flights will operate … read more

• Flights
• 19/02/2020 04:27

AIRLINK takes over SAA routes

Airlink, the privately-owned South African airline, will continue to operate services between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, Entebbe, Ndola and Luanda after 29 February 2020.

Business as usual, this is what Airlink communicates on all channles. And yes, this is basically true as there are no changes on the already published … read more

• Flights
• 17/02/2020 06:21

Ethiopian continues flying to China mainland

Ethiopian Airlines is still operating all flights into China, despite of mounting presure and other major airlines halting their services into China.

The fear over the coronavirus is driving the discussions about China operations, but Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said: “We should not isolate China. We should not margin… read more

• Flights
• 16/02/2020 07:23

Flight Centre restarts selling SAA tickets again

The Flight Centre Travel Group in South Africa has decided to sell again South African Airways tickets as its preferred travel insurer has reinstated travel supplier insolvency cover to the state-owned airline. Six weeks ago, Flight Centre had stopped selling tickets for SAA as the insurance had issued a warning. SAA's acting chief financial off… read more

• Flights
• 16/02/2020 06:56

British Airways will increase flights to Cape Town

As of 10 January 2021, next European winter, British Airways will operate two extra flights every week from London Gatwick Airport to Cape Town in South Africa. These new services added, customers can choose from 19 flights a week to Cape Town from London UK.

With outbound and inbound overnight nights, travellers can m… read more

• 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.