South African Airways (SAA) has announced significant schedule and route enhancements to its African network, including: added frequencies to several destinations, new or upgraded aircraft on certain routes, and product developments that will further enhance the flight experience for SAA’s valued customers. From 25 February 2012, SAA will launch an additional flight between Johannesburg and [...]
Ethiopian Airlines was awarded the Gold Award for African Airline of the Year 2011/2012 from the African Aviation News portal. Ethiopian Airlines earned this distinguished honor by receiving the highest number of votes from readers, industry officials, and followers of African Aviation. More than 20,000 total votes were registered in this year’s poll, both online [...]
Some 145 passengers, 80 of whom were heading for Accra and 73 for Nairobi are presently stranded at the Freetown International Airport, Lungi as a result of hazy conditions which has severely affected visibility levels and has prevented Kenya Airways from landing and instead being presently grounded at the Roberts International Airport in neighbouring Liberia. [...]
Ethiopian Airlines wins the Gold Award in the African Airline of the Year 2011/2012 Award given by African Aviation News portal. Ethiopian Airlines emerged ahead of the pack garnering the highest number of the votes cast in by the readers and followers of African Aviation, who voted in an online poll, set up at the [...]
Emirates Airlines made its maiden flight to Harare Wednesday amid pomp and fanfare with the airline set to connect Zimbabweans to more than 100 destinations around the world and boost the country’s recovering tourism industry. Several cabinet ministers, civil aviation officials and representatives of the airline attended the ceremony which critics said may well spell [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nine African airlines are to jointly source for jet fuel as a way of reducing costs in an unpredictable international oil market. The nine, all members of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), have already concluded evaluating tender bids from fuel companies. “We expect that there will be reasonable savings from the project,” Kenya Airways finance [...]