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...
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...
One of the world's largest airline groups announced today it plans to build its future fleet with the Boeing 737 MAX with an intention to purchase 200 MAX jets. International Airlines Group (IAG) and Boeing [NYSE: BA] said the two companies have...
Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to announce that it will commence services to Amman, Jordan as of July 16, 2019. Located between the desert and the fertile Jordan Valley, Jordan’s capital Amman is a city of contrasts and a fascinating...
Ethiopian Airlines, one of the fastest growing African carriers, will start thrice-weekly services to John F Kennedy (JFK) Airport in New York via Abidjan, as of June 17, 2019. JFK is the sixth busiest airport in the United States and an...
Monday, June 10, 2019 — The 26th annual World Travel Awards has named THE LOFT by Brussels Airlines and Lexus @ Brussels Airport Europe's Leading Airport Lounge 2019. The World Travel Awards, a prestigious and globally recognized...
Unions operating at debt-ridden SAA have given the government seven days to fire the entire board of the airline and to persuade CEO Vuyani Jarana to withdraw his resignation. SAA employees who are members of the National Union of Metalworkers SA...
Kenya Airways Plc (NSE:KQ) has today increased its route offering by launching flights to Rome, Italy and Geneva, Switzerland - the airline’s 4th and 5th European destinations after Amsterdam, London and Paris. The introduction of these...
The helicopter pilot who was killed after crashing on top of a Midtown building Monday afternoon was flying in a restricted flight area. Around 1:45 p.m., the chopper crash-landed on the roof of 787 Seventh Ave. between 51st and 52nd...
It's going to be yet another year of losses for African airlines — the fourth in a row — as the global airline industry braces for higher fuel prices and weaker global trade during 2019. The projections are a cautionary tale for...
A number of African countries are holding up funds by airline operators as a result of foreign exchange crunch, the International Air Transport Association, IATA, has disclosed. Amongst them are Eritrea, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Angola and...
Air Seychelles has today announced that the airline has expanded its codeshare partnership with South African Airways (SAA) to Perth and Windhoek. As part of the agreement, Air Seychelles is placing its “HM” code on SAA daily services...
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has cautioned Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Air Peace, for failing to report a hard landing incident involving one of its flights recently. The agency said that this has been the fashion of some...
Zuks will be taking over from Vuyani Jarana, who resigned in May, as acting CEO. On Friday the South African Airways (SAA) board and its executive management announced the appointment of Zuks Ramasia as its new acting...
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