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With about two weeks to the resumption of flights on August 1st, National Carrier RwandAir is working on changes with an aim to improve the safety of passengers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Like other airlines across the world, RwandAir will be making adjustments on a number of inflight aspects to reduce physical contact and chances o… read more
Rwandair: protocols cause changes to inflight service
Emirates Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 schedule adaptions
Emirates in this past week’s schedule update filed schedule changes between 01SEP20 and 27MAR21, as the airline reduces operational frequencies on various routes.
As of 2215GMT 18JUL20, planned service reduction as follows. Additional network adjustment will be filed in the next few weeks.
Dubai… read more
Pandemic Hits African Tourism
At mid-year, African economies, already battered by the Covid-19 pandemic are now facing a total GDP loss of at least $145.5 billion. With many countries recording an unprecedented surge in the number of infections, and the continent's total cases surpassing the half million mark as per World Health Organisation data, Africa is forecast to suffe… read more
KQ with rock-bottom fares on reopned domestic routes
Kenya Airways resumed domestic flights yesterday with lower fares of Sh4,815 f or a one-way ticket to Mombasa and Kisumu from Nairobi after being grounded since April due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Travellers took advantage of the reduced fares, nearly half its earlier charges, with the flights recording a 65 percent cabin load … read more
Nigeria: Domestic airlines risk collapse as load factor declines
Exactly a week after commercial airlines resumed flight services on Lagos-Abuja route, local airlines are struggling to sustain operations and meet cost as load factor hovers around 40 per cent.
The day-one optimism of about 70 per cent traffic across some of the local carriers has waned. Some of the operators c… read more
Kenya SGR Passenger Services Resume
On 13 July Kenya’s SGR resumed passenger services under strict COVID-19 measures. The current maximum seat occupancy is 50% as per government directives. Therefore, the maximum capacity of an economy coach is 59 seats and 36 seats for a first-class coach. Therefore, for the maximum capacity (8 economy and 2 first-class) is currently at 54… read more
The best places to watch chimpanzees in Uganda
Chimpanzees are favorite to both the young and old and when it comes to tracking them its another experience everyone should have a chance to take part of. Uganda has around 5000 Chimpanzees in the wildness a few of them are habituated for viewing. The best places to see chimpanzees are in rain forests and wet savannas where they like… read more
Safarilink resumes domestic flights
Safarilink’s flights to the Kenya coast, to Ukunda and Vipingo, are reportedly fully booked this weekend already, a sign how pent up the demand was by Kenyans to travel again and escape the cold Nairobi weather to the warm and sunny coast.To reassure passengers has Safarilink produced a health and safety video and published added i… read more
Barry Laine explains what he expects from Seychelles’ next President
A marketing man as our next PresidentAmerica is burning with hate and violence as we listen to their plea that the route of all their discontent is racism. I believe racism is the igniter and the root of their problem is years of inequality during which the rich have called the shots. This is also the case in Seychelles but we are remaini… read more
Air Senegal resumes Abidjan service from mid-July 2020
Air Senegal today (17JUL20) is resuming International service, initially operating Dakar – Abidjan route. For the remainder of July 2020, the airline schedules twice weekly flights, on board Airbus A319 aircraft.
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