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Emirates Sep 2020 onward network adjustment as of 04AUG20
Emirates this week filed additional changes to its network, as the airline cancels 4 additional destinations, and aircraft adjustment on Milan – New York sector. Latest adjustment as of 04AUG20 as follows.
Following cancellation or aircraft adjustment is scheduled on permanent basis:
Dubai – Adelaide 1 daily… read more
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
Emirates back to Kuwait City and Lisbon
Emirates has announced it will resume passenger services to Kuwait City (August 5) and Lisbon (August 16). This will take Emirates’ passenger network to 70 destinations in August, over 50% of its pre-pandemic destination network, as the airline gradually resumes operations.
Flights from Dubai to Kuwait City will operat… read more
Somalia: resumption of international flights
The federal government, led by the Caretaker Prime Minister Mahadi Mohamed Guled alias Khadar, issued a statement on Thursday permitting resumption of international travel that was banned in mid-March this year as part of measures to fight the spread of Covid-19.
Somalia had resumed the domestic flights on July 5.
The Somali g… read more
Kenya excludes US, EU, India from safe flights list as its resumes international aviation
Kenya has excluded the US and the major European nations from a list of countries whose nationals will be allowed into the country as it resumes international flights operations.
According to businessdailyafrica.com, a protocol guiding the resumption of international flights only has Canada, Switzerland, Japan, China and South Korea… read more
RwandAir back to the skies
The national flag carrier, RwandAir has finally resumed commercial flights after months of suspension due to the novel coronavirus. "We are back in the sky!" the airline said on August 1, as it operated the first flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. "Our flight WB304 from Kigali to Dubai took off a moment ago," RwandAir said in a tweet.… read more
Arik Air returns to Benin, Jos and Owerri & Asaba
Arik Air is continuing its phased restart of domestic flight operations post COVID-19 lockdown with resumption of services to four additional airports of Benin, Jos, Owerri and Asaba. Flights to Benin, Jos and Owerri Airports will resume on Monday, August 3, 2020 while flights to Asaba Airport will resume on August… read more
Ibom Air welcomes 5th CRJ900 aircraft, assures Paxs safety with HEPA filters
After delays occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ibom Air is pleased to finally receive it’s fifth Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft, the second of the two additional aircraft purchased in December 2019. The aircraft, with registration number 5N-BXO, arrived Lagos from Calgary, Canada at 00.05 am local time, Saturday morning, 01 A… read more
Safarilink: Now also to Malindi
Effective immediately has Safarilink started to fly to Malindi.
Safarilink, generally considered as Kenya’s best Beach and Bush airline, will operate daily services as of 07th of August, after launching the service with two flights initially. The routing out of Wilson Airport in Nairobi goes via Lamu, before retu… read more
KQ signs deal with GE aviation for more efficiency
Kenya Airways said it has entered into a partnership agreement with GE Aviation to adopt its Flight Operations suite of digital products across the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737, 787 and Embraer E190 airplanes. According to Kenya Airways, the flight operations suite integrates various data sources like flight information, weather, navigat… read more
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