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The Madagascar national airline announced this step to travel agencies this week. Thus, the connections between the capital of Madagascar and the South African city will be interrupted on January 8, 2020. At the origin of this new suspension, a filling rate quite low, and in turn a lack of profitability. Since June 2019, the airline offers two…
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This coming Sunday, a cyclon is going to hit the Mdagascar coast in the region of the city Boeny - this is what the latest weather forcats models say.Already before the cyckon hits the coats, there extremely heavy rainfalls and flash floods to be expected.
Air Senegal's second Airbus A330-900neo has arrived. The brand new aircraft was received Tuesday, December 3, 2019 by Alioune Sarr, the Senegalese Minister of Civil Aviation in Airbus workshops in Toulouse. The aircraft landed at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar yesterday.
Equipped with RollsRoyce's Trent 7000 engines, the airc… read more
The Board of SAA (South African Airways), supported by the governement of South Africa has decided to place the SAA into
business rescue. A press statement says, this would be "the optimal mechanism to
restore confidence in SAA and to safeguard the good assets of SAA and help to restructure and reposition the entity into one that
is stronger,… read more
Eritrean Airlines has received a new airplane. The Eritrean national airline received on November 28, 2019, a Boeing 737-400, which is registered as UR-CNP.
The aircraft has been leased from Yanair., a Ukrainian aircraft rental and charter flights specialist, which is a long-time partner of Eritrean Airlines…
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Cameroon Airline Corporation said, one of its airplanes, a MA60 aircraft, has been shot with firearms approaching Bamenda Airport from Douala. As per airline statement, the incident took place on December 1st around 10am.
The crew was able to land the airplane safely even there was some damage at the fuselage; as a consequence, the aircraf… read more
SAA is in problems; after the strike, the problems are even larger as the negative financial impact of the strike hit an already weak airline. According to an internal document, written by one of the former SAA CEO's, one of the best chances to recover would be to absolutely governement-free and to merge with another major airlines.
Today, on the 2nd of December 2019, Air Zimbabwe did not operate any flights. The airline said that this was because of "operational limitations beyond its control". Air Zimbabwe said that they would resume operations, tomorrow, the 3rd of December 2019.
Kenya is planning to bring all airline related business under one state roof; airports, handling agents and of course the Kenyan Airlines as well.To achieve this plan, Kenya's Finance Minister plans to buyout Air France-KLM, local banks and more than 80,000 individual shareholders from Kenya Airways and delist the national carrier from the Nai…
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Soft openeing has just started for the newly built Johari Rotana hotel located in Dar es Salaam, the first hotel of the Rotana Group in East Africa.
253 rooms, which include 60 fully-serviced apartments, are located in DAR's central business district, located at the MNF square. The five-star-property offers facilities on 15 floors, but sta… read more
Air Madagascar will suspend its line Antananarivo - Johannesburg
Madagascar: Cyclon to hit coast on sunday
Air Senegal's second Airbus A330-900neo
SAA in business rescue
Eritrean Airlines acquires new airplane
CamAir flight shot with arms during landing in Bamenda
Air Zimbabwe halts operations today
Buyout of Kenya Airways Investors?
Johari Rotana hotel opens in Dar es Salaam
