Ethiopian Airlines is launching three-times-weekly service from Addis Ababa to Dammam, the capital of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, starting on February 12. According to a press release Ethiopian sent to ENA on Friday, Dammam will be its 8th destination in the Middle East and its 64th worldwide. Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam said the new flight [...]

Kenyan’s national carrier, Kenya airways said on Thursday it registered a 15.4 per cent increase in passenger numbers for its third quarter with 956,742 passengers using the airline compared to the same period last year. The airline said in a statement released in Nairobi that its capacity in the domestic front and to Europe registered [...]

Workers at Air Zimbabwe have successfully won a high court application to have the airline placed under judicial management, which will now see its affairs handled by a judicial manager, Innocent Mavhunga, and not the airline’s board. South African Airways (SAA) and Emirates are set to cash in on the woes that have gripped Zimbabwe’s [...]

Air Zimbabwe which is bedeviled by insolence, and a dearth of planes has been struggling to meet the growing demand and the entrance into the market of, one of the fastest growing international airlines, has bolstered its operations on the booming Africa trade route. Supporting the thriving trade between Africa and the rest of the [...]

The Ethiopian Airlines, one of the leading Airliners in Africa, on Sunday made a special flight to Seychelles, its newest destination with a group of about 152 Chinese tourists on the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival. The Ethiopian which made test flight on Sunday promoting its new destination, will be starting regular flights to [...]

Kenya Airways says passengers stranded in Malawi to travelling to South Africa can still use the airline but via Nairobi to OR Tambo Airport in Joburg. The development comes at a time when the business sector and the general travelling public has complained of over-booked and unavailable air travel options for flights to South Africa [...]

Ethiopian Airlines has sold its five Fokker 50 regional turboprops to Fortran Aviation Limited, and is negotiating with Bombardier to replace them with five new Q400 turboprops. Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Oficer Tewolde Gebremariam said the aircraft were sold so that the airline could buy new aircraft. He added that the aircraft were transferred at [...]

The entry into Zimbabwe by international carrier Emirates and the increased number of flights to Zimbabwe by South African Airways will avert a near-collapse of the local aviation sector, economists and analysts say, as the beleaguered Air Zimbabwe has failed to return to full operation. From next month, Emirates will launch a five-times-a-week transcontinental service [...]

Air France-KLM has announced that it will reduce investment and impose €1 billion of cost savings, effective immediately. The austerity measures will include a wage and recruitment freeze in an attempt to turn around its revenues. The decision comes as the company says it’s seeking to reduce net debt from €6.5 billion to €4.5 billion [...]

Ethiopian Airlines has awarded a new maintenance hangar construction project worth 100 million dollars to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) after a competitive bid, according to Capital. “The maintenance hangar has been awarded to AVIC and we are talking about the financing of the project. We will finance it through loan arrangements with [...]