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African Airline of the Year Award 2011/2012: Ethiopian Airlines Bags the Gold
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 [...]
Ethiopian Airlines to launch nonstop flight to Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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 [...]
Kenya Airways passenger numbers up 15.4 per cent
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 [...]
Emirates SkyCargo will landed in Zimbabwe as Air Zimbabwe Woes
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 [...]
Kenya Airways opens up for South Africa Travellers
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 to South Africa since the [...]
Ethiopian Airlines Awards $100 Million Project to China’s AVIC
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 [...]
Ethiopian Airlines flights to Abuja and Lagos cancel
More than 600 passengers travelling to Nigeria from various destinations are now stranded in Addis Ababa following the cancellation of Ethiopian Airlines flights to Abuja and Lagos since Tuesday. The correspondent in Addis Ababa reports that the cancellation of all flights to Nigeria was as a result of the ongoing nationwide strike against the removal [...]
Kenya Airways to add flights
Flying to Africa is set to get more exciting. Kenya Airways, which flies Mumbai-Nairobi, is looking to introduce a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the route in 2014. Besides, KQ (the official moniker for the airline) plans to expand presence in India in a big way by increasing frequencies from Mumbai and Delhi, perhaps this year, [...]
African Airlines start joint fuel plan to lower costs
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 [...]
Air France-KLM confirms order for 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners
Air France-KLM on Tuesday confirmed it is to buy 25 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, part of a major order for 50 long-haul carriers split with European rival Airbus announced last year. “Air France-KLM confirms the signing with Boeing of a firm order contract to acquire 25 Boeing 787-9s and 25 options to buy,” a spokesman told [...]