Tourism News

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu The International Air Transport Association (IATA) September report of the Airlines Financial Monitor shows, compared to the more complete financial data from Q2, that the year-on-year decline in profit margins was quite small for the industry in aggregate,…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu Southwest is America’s third biggest airline and the seventh largest in the world, with around 49,000 employees. In the UK, male pilots outnumber female pilots 16 to 1, rising to 33 to 1 at the nation’s biggest holiday company,…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu The U.S. government is urging the world airline community to ban laptops from checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. Tests show when a laptop’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery overheats in close proximity to an aerosol spray…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu The regional turboprop manufacturer ATR (a joint venture between Airbus and Leonardo), will attend the Seoul International Aerospace & Defence Exhibition 2017 (Seoul ADEX 2017), between the 17th and 22nd of October. The airshow provides ATR with an excellent opportunity…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu Ethiopian Airlines has been crowned as the Rising Star Carrier of the Year both in industry and customer choice awards on Payload Asia Awards 2017 gala dinner and awards ceremony, held at Crowne Plaza Changi Airport, Singapore.   Payload Asia magazine, a respected…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu Competition among West African carriers along the west coast corridor has continued to increase by the day as more airlines have continued to open new routes to meet the need of air travellers in the region. This is just…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest airline group in Africa, has been recognized as Middle East and Africa Airline of the Year 2017 by Airline Economics, the largest aviation finance and leasing print publication in the world, at a…

23rd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu Kenya Airways has been named Africa’s Leading Airline, 2017, at the World Travel Awards ceremony held on Tuesday, 10 October, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Conference Centre Kigali, Rwanda.   This is the second consecutive year the airline has won the…

22nd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu State-owned airlines in Africa are not operating at the capacity they should be, says Boeing sub-Saharan Africa MD Miguel Santos. Speaking to Engineering News Online on the sidelines of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa’s forty-seventh annual general assembly, in KwaZulu-Natal, he noted that, in South Africa, there were major problems…

22nd Jan 2018 | Elizabeth Sasu An Emirates flight from Dubai to Munich was diverted to Kuwait after a child died on board on October 10, the airline said on Wednesday. “Emirates can confirm that flight EK049 from Dubai to Munich was diverted on 10…