African Airlines Association (AFRAA) top decision-making body has appointed Ethiopian lawyer, Tewodros Tamrat, as acting secretary-general, the airlines’ body said in Addis Ababa on Wednesday. According to Nigeria Daily Independent, the new Secretary-General would run the affairs of the continental air transport organisation until a substantive secretary-general is elected by the General Assembly, which comprises [...]
Gaborone – Botswana and Ethiopia have concluded negotiations on a bilateral air service agreement that will pave the way for the commencement of direct air services between the two countries. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Public Relations Punah Serati the negotiations were held on 26 and 27 May 2010 in Addis Ababa and concluded with the [...]
May 5 – Kenya announced on Wednesday it had finally settled a month-long diplomatic row with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that led to controversial visa rules that blocked non-graduate Kenyans from traveling there. The move now means that thousands of Kenyan traders can now travel to Dubai, which is a popular business destination for [...]
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Emirates is to restart daily flights to the Cote D’Ivoire from 1 May 2010, following increased demand for the West African route. Under the new schedule, EK flight 787 will leave Dubai each day at 07:30 and arrive at Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport in Abidjan at 14:00. As before, flights to and from Abidjan, served [...]
Air France, KLM and Lufthansa send out jets carrying only crew members in an attempt to show that flying conditions are safe despite the volcanic ash. The flights landed without incident, they said. Their losses deepening, European airlines on Sunday stepped up pressure to reopen the skies by carrying out passenger-free test flights despite the [...]
Airport closures sparked by Iceland volcano eruption leave tens of thousands of air travellers stranded throughout EU. Tens of thousands of travellers were left stranded across Europe today as the drifting ash cloud spread rapidly south-east from Iceland and caused the biggest shutdown of the continent’s airspace since 11 September 2001. Eurocontrol, the intergovernmental air [...]
It now appears that Emirates has announced it will start flights from Dubai to Dakar come this September. In fact, on September 1st, Emirates will fly five times weekly to the west African destination. The flights will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Right now the plan is for the flight to [...]
The men are young, gorgeous and up for it. No wonder Western women see a Third World holiday as the gateway to casual sex – sometimes in exchange for cash. But as a new film highlights female sex tourism, Liz Hoggard asks who really pays the price. An attractive woman sips a cocktail under a [...]
Geneva – Libya says Switzerland’s travel ban on high-ranking officials and their families has been humiliating and has heavily damaged relations with Europe. Libya’s representative to the UN in Geneva, Ibrahim A E Aldredi, says the Swiss used the Schengen agreement for their own purposes in a dispute over the arrest of the Libyan leader’s [...]
