Emirates and Airlink have announced an interline agreement, widening Emirates’ reach into Southern Africa as countries begin opening their borders for travellers. Emirates’ agreement with Airlink will provide its customers enhanced connectivity via its gateways Johannesburg and Cape Town to more than 25 domestic destinations in South Africa and more than 20 regional destinations in […]
Kenya Airways (KQ) and Delta Air Lines have expanded their current codeshare partnership into 3 more points in the USA ahead of the resumption of its flights to New York on 31st October 2020. The one-stop service via New York into North America is critical especially in the current environment as Kenya Airways continues to […]
Djibouti, 8 October – In a landmark ceremony, held under the auspices of HE President of the Republic of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh, Djibouti inaugurated the regeneration project to turn the Historical Port of Djibouti into an international business district. A 6-phase regeneration plan The regeneration will see the historical port transformed into a district called […]
Emirates Airlines, the largest airline of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it will resume passenger flights into Entebbe International Airport on October 1 after President Yoweri Museveni opened the airport for tourists. The Airline tweeted this afternoon that they expect to touchdown at Entebbe Airport at 1705hrs (5:05 pm). The Airline had suspended […]
FlyersRights.org, the largest airline passenger organization has submitted its comments criticizing FAA’s proposed fixes for the Boeing 737 MAX as inadequate and not supported by data. According to Paul Hudson, President of FlyersRights.org, in a letter seen by EABW Digital News he wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s proposal simply […]
Work at the Berbera International Airport in Somaliland is almost complete with new infrastructure being put in place to make it one of the most modern aviation facilities in the continent, Dritan Gjonbalaj, the airport Director General Berbera has said. Gjonbajaj said there has been serious investment in infrastructure and equipment to ensure that the […]
Kenya Airways (KQ) the Republic of Kenya’s national flag carrier and APG, have announced the signing of a new Passenger Ground Service Agent, (GSA) partnership in Europe. Under the new agreement, APG will be providing wide-ranging sales and marketing activities for Kenya Airways as well as full customer and agent support in 39 European markets, […]
Uganda has opened its borders for international tourists, a measure many have termed as a very welcome move. On 30th March this year, Uganda stopped all passengers coming into the country by air, land or water which affected in-coming planes, buses, taxis and boats. The government also closed Entebbe International Airport and all other border […]
Following President Yoweri Museveni’s speech yesterday, where he announced the opening of the international airport and land borders for tourists coming in and going out provided they tested negative for COVID 19 72hours before arrival in Uganda, Rwanda Air has announced that it will resume its operations in and out of Entebbe International Airport on […]
Emirates has said it will resume flights to Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Ivory Coast from 6 September. The addition of these two destinations takes the total number of points served by Emirates in Africa to 11. This will also take the airline’s passenger network to 81 destinations in September, offering customers around the world even […]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that passenger demand in July (measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs), continued at critically low levels–79.8% below July 2019 levels. This was somewhat better than the 86.6% year-over-year decline recorded in June, primarily driven by domestic markets, most notably Russia and China. Market reopening in the Schengen […]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for global air freight markets in July showing air cargo demand is stable but at lower levels than 2019. While there is some month-to-month improvement, it is at a slower pace than some of the traditional leading indicators would suggest. This is due to the capacity […]
Kenya Airways had been badly affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic over the past six months with a recorded loss of about US$132 million from flight disruptions that led to the grounding of aircraft. The airline management said last weekend that the passenger numbers dropped by 55.5% to 1.1 million in contrast with 2.4 million […]