Tourism News

30th Apr 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Africa World Airlines (AWA), the Ghanaian homebase carrier is the first African country to resume its domestic aviation services after the suspension of all routes by the President of Ghana in March, 2020. In terms of worldwide, AWA comes…

19th Apr 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Following the President's 7th address to the nation with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, Africa World Airlines is pleased to announce the resumption of limited domestic scheduled flight service with effect from Tuesday 21APR20. AWA will initially…

6th Apr 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Home-based Ghanaian carrier, Africa World Airlines (AWA), was awarded the humanitarian mission to repatriate a group of Ghanaians stranded abroad due to the current closure of national borders. Commercial air travel has been immensely affected due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)…

29th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Ethiopian Airlines, the Pan-African carrier, has delivered medical supplies donated by Jack Ma, the founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba, to 39 African Countries within 5 days. Ethiopian has transported Jack Ma’s support including testing kits, masks and…

28th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu The Ghanaian indigenous carrier, Africa World Airlines (AWA), will suspend all its flights for two weeks in "Pursuant to the movement restrictions imposed by HE The President of Ghana". Africa World Airlines will not operate any scheduled passenger flights…

21st Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Pursuant to the instructions issued by Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Africa World Airlines will suspend our flights to Lagos and Abuja after 23MAR20. The last flights to both destinations will operate on Monday 23MAR20. AWA will ensure that sufficient…

17th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Sal, 17th March, 2020 – The unprecedented circumstances triggered by the further proliferation of Coronavirus, Covid-19, poses a threat not only to the aviation industry, and tourism, but in general to the economy and social connectivity. As a result…

17th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu The Government of Ghana has issued a Travel Advisory that goes into effect from 1300hrs on 17MAR20. Under this advisory, ALL TRAVELS TO GHANA ARE STRONGLY DISCOURAGED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Ghana Immigration Service, at their discretion, may refuse entry…

10th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu Sal, March 10th, 2020 – Following the recent news about the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, Cabo Verde Airlines (CVA) has updated its strategy to protect all passengers with flights booked between February 27th and April 30th,…

10th Mar 2020 | Elizabeth Sasu The Africa World Airlines team recognises that current news regarding COVID-19 may cause uncertainty among airline passengers. They are therefore assuring passengers about their safety and health onboard their aircraft. Read below a press release from the AWA…