Pretoria, South Africa(CNN)Standing in a hangar at Wonderboom Airport near Pretoria, South Africa, Refilwe Ledwaba is geeking out over a slick airplane behind her. "This is my favorite...
Pretoria, South Africa(CNN)Standing in a hangar at Wonderboom Airport near Pretoria, South Africa, Refilwe Ledwaba is geeking out over a slick airplane behind her. "This is my favorite aircraft. It's called a King Air 200. I've got...
Africa World Airlines (AWA) 🇬🇭, the Ghanaian private sector airline; and Air Burkina 🇧🇫 , the national carrier of Burkina Faso, have announced an #interline #partnership to better connect passengers through AWA's hub in...
A Ukrainian Boeing-737 carrying 176 people has crashed in Iran and officials say there is no chance of finding survivors. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 to Kyiv went down after taking off from Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran at 06:12...
Two humanitarian delivery flights bring more than 53,000 pounds of aid supplies to Ethiopia. The Humanitarian Delivery Flight Program has delivered more than 266,000 pounds of supplies to organizations in Ethiopia since...
Air Senegal started flights to Accra, Ghana today the 16th of December, 2019. The Airline will be plying the Dakar-Accra route directly 4 times in a week, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. A water Canon salute met the aircraft as...
The Pan-African airline, ASKY, took delivery of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft officially received on December 12th, 2019 at the Lomé Airport (Hub) in the presence of company officials. This new aircraft with a capacity of 154 seats,...
Africa World Airlines is the proud recipient of the 2019 Routes Africa Airline Excellence Award for "Innovation and Capacity Growth" from Routesonline. The award was received at the Routes Africa Conference in Mombasa, Kenya by...
Launched in January 2018, SAATM is the flagship project of Africa’s integration Agenda 2063 that aims to open Africa’s skies and improve intra-African air connectivity. A total of 32 African countries made solemn commitment to...
Countries in Africa are becoming more open to each other, but progress is needed to realise free movement of people continent-wide. That’s according to Raphael Kuuchi, vice president of Africa at IATA, who provided a state of the region...
Air Senegal from 16DEC19, will start flights from Dakar – Accra – Lagos route, including 5th freedom local rights on Accra – Lagos sector. The Airbus A319 aircraft will operate this route 4 times...
Africa World Airlines, the proud winner of "Best Airline in West Africa", will soon begin flying to Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire; its 10th destination in the region. Effective from Friday, 14th February 2020, AWA will offer 6 weekly...
An Ethiopian Airlines aircraft has suffered a runway excursion at Juba International Airport this evening. Wet conditions are being blamed for the accident, which has caused extensive damage to the aircraft. All passengers and crew are said to have...
Africa World Airlines, the proud winner of "Best Passenger Experience" at Aviatour Awards 2019, is pleased to announce a partnership with leading coffee shop brand, Vida e Caffe, to provide passengers traveling on domestic routes with new...
SAA is to be placed in business rescue, it emerged on Wednesday night. In a letter to cabinet ministers and deputy ministers presidency director-general Cassius Lubisi informed the executive that President Cyril Ramaphosa had...
Africa World Airlines, voted the Best Airline in West Africa - 2019 is searching for passionate and self motivated engineering graduates who have completed their National Service into the above programme. Candidates who excel during the 6...
The state-owned South African Airways (SAA) managed to reach an agreement with labor unions on Friday the 22nd November 2019, ending a strike that lasted over a week and cost the Airline approximately $3.4 million each day. Last week, the South...
A Chinese antitrust regulator has approved the joint venture between Boeing and Embraer. The deal, which would see Boeing buy a controlling stake in the commercial jet division of Embraer, has been “approved unconditionally,”...
SAA has resumed flights to it's eight international and six regional destinations, as the impact of the pay-related strike launched last week appears to have been contained. At a press conference at Airways Park near OR Tambo Airport...
JOHANNESBURG - South African Airways (SAA) said that a number of banks had agreed to loan it R2 billion to stay afloat. The national carrier now had to seek guarantees from government, as a shareholder, in order to receive the funds. But the...
Dubai, November 19, 2019 – Today, at the Dubai Airshow, De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (“De Havilland Canada”) announced that the Republic of Ghana has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase up to six Dash 8-400...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] and the Republic of Ghana announced today that the country intends to re-launch an airline starting with the 787-9 Dreamliner. The parties signed a memorandum of understanding at the...
On 15th October 2019, a local boy, Victor Pul will have the honour of being a pilot on the first ever commercial flight into the new airport in Wa. Victor hails from Nandom in the Upper West Region, and grew up in Wa attending Saint Francis...
Africa World Airlines (AWA) and Brussels Airlines have signed a partnership agreement to better connect passengers traveling through their respective hubs in Brussels and Accra. The new partnership between the airlines will allow passengers...
GH-Aviation is reliably informed of the delaying tactics by the National Communications Authority in renewing the radio license of Africa World Airlines. The Airline (AWA) has had some disruptions in flight operations and according to various...
DHL-Ethiopian Airlines Logistics Services – a joint venture formed between DHL Global Forwarding and Ethiopian Airlines - is scaling its operations in Ethiopia. The company has named Berhanu Kassa as General Manager. Previously director of...
Surfing the internet with seamless reliable connectivity has now become the new normal onboard Ethiopian Airlines flights thanks to the onboard Wi-Fi internet connectivity the Airline introduced on its A350 fleet using the latest broadband satellite...
Africa World Airlines (AWA), the leading air carrier in Ghana, will launch the first commercial flights into the newly commissioned airport in Wa, Upper West region of Ghana, on 15 October 2019. The airport has recently been allocated the identifier...
Entebbe-Nairobi, inaugural flight 10am August 27 Entebbe-Juba, 10x weekly from August 27 Entebbe-Mombasa, 3x weekly from August 27 Entebbe-Nairobi, 2 daily from August 28Entebbe-Mogadishu, 4x weekly from August 29 Entebbe-Kilimanjaro, 3x...
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is cautioning the public against transacting business with Global Ghana Airlines stating that the Airline has not been licensed to operate in the country. The caution comes after Global Ghana Airline for...
In September 2017 I first wrote about Global Ghana Airlines, a new startup airline that intended to operate nonstop flights between Chicago and Accra. At the time the airline announced that they’d begin operating flights within...
Africa World Airlines (AWA), ASKY Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines have teamed up to provide passengers with seamless and stress-free air travel within the West Africa sub-regional and various international routes they serve. The interline...
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for June 2019 showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose by 5.0% compared to June 2018. This was...
JOHANNESBURG. 8 August 2019. South African Airways (SAA) is further strengthening its presence in Ghana by increasing weekly frequencies from 9 to 10 flights between Johannesburg and Accra, and by launching a daily service between Accra and...
Africa World Airlines Limited (AWA) is further strengthening its regional presence in West Africa by increasing flights between Accra and both Freetown and Monrovia to daily services effective 05th September 2019. The new...
JOHANNESBURG. 6 August 2019. South African Airways (SAA) would like to apologize to all its passengers for the inconvenience and anxiety caused to all its customers who flew from Johannesburg and Accra to Washington D.C. on Sunday. Two...
A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted an air hostess and behaved erratically, faced multiple charges at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday. The Dubai public prosecution accused the Jordanian...
Ethiopian Airlines is set to start passenger flights to Bengaluru, India as of 27th October 2019. The capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, Bengaluru is dubbed ‘Silicon Valley of India’ and serves as the...
Captain Simisola Ajibola who operated the Air Peace flight on July 23, which had nose wheel collapse, debunks reports, saying the aircraft landed without tyres. She said the incident, which took place at the international runway of the Murtala...
Access to financial capital and human resources were cited by these two aircraft operators as largest concerns in Africa Africa World Airlines technicians finishing a maintenance task on left engine. AFRICA WORLD...
Challenges facing airlines today and the role of technology in keeping them up to speed Much like any other industry, technological advances are impacting the aviation industry. It’s unquestionable that operational efficiencies can be...
Barely 24 hours after an Air Peace aircraft made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, another aircraft belonging to Med-View Airlines recorded a similar problem on Tuesday. The incident is the latest in a...
Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace has commended Captain Ajibola and her crew for handling a situation in Lagos this morning. Caption Ajibola noticed sudden weather changes when approaching Lagos and demanded to land on the International...
Passengers on an Azman airline flight were thrown into confusion Friday as a yet to be identified man jumped on the aircraft on the runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. Our reporter learnt that the incident occurred while the aircraft...
Head of Commercial at Africa World Airlines (AWA), Richard Kyereh has said they are ready and willing to fly to new airports in Ghana. According to him, statements circulating in the media that AWA is not willing to fly to new airports...
Africa World Airlines commended the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority for the launch of the new consumer protection directives that provided domestic and international airline passengers in Ghana with statutory remedies in case of denied boarding,...
A body that landed in the garden of a London resident is suspected to have been a stowaway aboard a Kenya Airways plane. The Clapham resident was sunbathing on Sunday afternoon when the body landed merely three feet from them. The body reportedly...
RwandAir’s Airbus A330 touched down at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport at around 10:30p.m local time (4:30p.m Rwandan time) to a big welcome, completing the national carrier’s longest ever commercial flight. The 14 hours and 50...
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that it has been honored as the ‘Best Airline in Africa’ for the third consecutive year at the Skytrax...
Following the successful completion and subsequent announcement of their self-built aircraft, the 20 South African teenage inventors have taken the first of many steps towards accomplishing their goal of flying across the continent of...
According to reports coming out of Tunisia, six members of cabin crew from Saudi Arabian Airlines have been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a fellow crew member at the airline’s crew hotel in Gammarth, near Tunis. The incident...
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