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• Flights
• 27/08/2020 13:45

Boost for Rwanda's new airport

When Bugesera International Airportopens for business in 2022, it will be backed by one of the world’s most successful airlines. In December 2019, Qatar Airways signed a deal to take a 60% stake in the new airport, now under construction around 35km south-east of the Rwandan capital, Kigali.  Under three agreemen… read more

• Flights
• 27/08/2020 08:09 updated

Emirates also to Conakry and Dakar, targets more countries

Emirates adds Conakry and Dakar to its network.

Emirates has announced the resumption of its regular flights to Dakar in Senegal and Conakry in Guinea. As of September 3, the Emirati carrier will offer two weekly flights between its base in Dubai and the two West African capitals. The line will be operated without competitio… read more

• Destinations
• 21/08/2020 02:04

Entebbe Airport prepares for reopening

Going through Entebbe International Airporthas always been a rough experience for the average traveller but COVID-19 prevention protocols could make your check-in and check-out even more cumbersome. Before the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc around the world and grounded thousands of airlines, travellers going through Entebbe were ex… read more

• Destinations
• 19/08/2020 04:22

African countries want WTTC Safe Tourism Certification

While in East Africa Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda have received WTTC’s stamp of approval for the safe resumption of tourism activities have other countries from across the continent also made the cut.Among those are Egypt and Tunisia, two countries greatly affected by the Pandemic, parts of South Africa which has reported the most #COVID19 … read more

• Opinion
• 18/08/2020 05:36

KQ: Downsizing not the solution

Kenya Airways is currently downsizing operations including staff rationalisation in what management believes will help cut costs. At least 1,500 employees among them pilots, cabin crew, administrative and technical staff are targeted in the process set to end in September.

The Star's Martin Mwita spoke to the… read more

• Flights
• 13/08/2020 10:26

Jambojet will make Mombasa its secondary hub

• Flights
• 06/08/2020 13:18

Re-Open East African airspace with great caution

After months of shuttering air travel, East Africa is gradually joining the rest of the world in opening up.

Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania are now permitting international flights, even as their land borders remain closed to passenger travel. Only Uganda, South Sudan and Burundi are still closed, but they are coming under… read more

• Destinations
• Conservation & Wildlife
• 06/08/2020 12:41

Uganda Bwindi National Park: Two New Gorilla Babies

Two new baby gorillas have been discovered in a Ugandan national park where a beloved primate named Rafiki was killed in June, a wildlife official announced Tuesday, saying the infants are part of a baby boom in the protected forest popular with tourists.

“For us it's a sign of relief. We lost one. We got two. But, of course,… read more

• Flights
• 05/08/2020 16:04

Uganda: Tourism Stakeholders Ask Government to Reopen Airport

A cross section of tourism stakeholders have asked government to set a timeline within which to hopes to re-open Uganda's airspace.

Speaking on the sidelines of a stakeholders meeting in Kampala yesterday, Ms Pearl Hoareau Kakooza, the Uganda Tourism Association (UTA) president, said the President and his Cabinet should consider re-… read more

• Flights
• 05/08/2020 12:06

Kenya Airways lame re-entry into operations

Kenya Airways resumed international commercial flights on Saturday in the most uncertain of times for both world aviation and the company itself.

Covid-19 restrictions around the world and Kenya Airways’ internal reorganisation have seen the airline drop 42 direct flights routes including some of the country’s major tourism destinat… read more