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Air Senegal in recent schedule update filed changes to planned operation for Northern winter 2020/21 season. As of 09OCT20, planned operation as follows. Note this list focus on operations until 31DEC20. Additional changes to planned operation remain possible.
Dakar – Abidjan 4 weekly A319 (5 weekly from 29NOV20)… read more
The aviation industry is one of the biggest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the tourism and hospitality industries. With international flights resuming in various places, many airlines are looking to get out the rut and boost their operations.
Dubai-based airline giant, Emirates is set to resume its operations on the Afr… read more
The President of the Republic of Senegal Macky Sall has announced that Government will extend tax reliefs for the tourism sector till 2021. The Government as part of mitigating measures to assuage the plight of the badly hit tourism sector in the wake of the pandemic granted tax reliefs such as waiving off corporation… read more
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has introduced new visa regimes to citizens of United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates (UAE), France and 147 other countries.
The service said that the new regime, which consists of transit, business (single), business (multiple), tourism, visiting (single), visiting (multiple… read more
Sky Mali is finally taking off after several postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mali's new national carrier is making its first commercial flight this Tuesday, September 29 at 3:30 p.m. This will link Bamako to Kayes, the capital of the eponymous region located 495 km north-west of the country's capital. The lin… read more
Kenya Airways said it will resume commercial passenger flights to Ghana and Sierra Leone on September 16 and to Liberia on September 17. The flag carrier said in an advertisement in the Daily Nation newspaper that it will fly four times a week to Accra and twice weekly to Freetown and Monrovia.
In West Africa, the… read more
The Republic of the Congo has reopened its borders and airports for international visitors. In order to visit Congo, travelers will be required to do a health screening and follow quarantine protocols.All visitors are required to complete a negative COVID-19 test within a maximum of 7 days prior to arrival and submit the test resul… read more
In his visit to Senegal, Abdérahmane Berthé held meetings with some aviation stakeholders on developments in the region and took part in the third meeting on the operationalisation of the single African air transport market (SAATM) which was hosted at AFCAC headquarters. … read more
The air transport sector is emerging as a winner in the new page of diplomatic rapprochement which is opening between Guinea Bissau and Turkey. The Eurasian giant has pledged to build a new international airport in Bissau. The announcement was made yesterday by Guinean Foreign Minister Suzy Barbosa after a two-day visit (September 9-1… read more
Barely four days after the Federal Government reopened the airspace for international flight services into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, Delta Air Lines, the only United States carrier that operates into Nigeria has landed at Lagos airport.The airlin… read more