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Aviation: SAA bleeding as Emirates, Qatar and Ethiopian eats up domestic market but W/Africa delivers

November 18, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

South Africa Airways is bleeding from the intense competition on the domestic market, with rivals gouging out R1bn revenue in the second quarter of the 2016-17 financial year, acting chief financial officer Phumeza Nhantsi told Parliament’s finance committee Wednesday. The state-owned airline carried 159,000 fewer passengers — 4% decline — compared with its budget, due to the entry into the […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: Emirates, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Airlines, Musa Zwane Nigeria economy, Qatar Airways, SAA

Africa: Uganda may get New National Airline

June 27, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Uganda President Museveni, when addressing the first cabinet meeting of his new government, reportedly told them that “because our brothers in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa let us down,” the formation of a national airline was now a priority. When the former Uganda Airlines was finally dissolved it was because the carrier was broke […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: Aero Club, Africa aviation, African tourism, Air Uganda, AOC, Eagle Air, Emirates, ICAO, KLM, national airline, President Museveni, Qatar Airways, Rwandair, UCAA, Uganda Airlines, Uganda National Airline, Ugandan Civil Aviation Authority

African Aviation: Emirates Establish A Foot Hold in Africa With TAAG

June 8, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

By Friday Nwosu Emirates Airline, the largest carriers in the Middle East is establishing a foot hold in Africa with its partnership with TAAG Angola Airlines. This is similar to what Qatar Airways is planning to do from Morocco. TAAG Angola is the state-owned national airline of Angola based in Luanda. The airline operates an all Boeing fleet on domestic […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: African Aviation, African carriers, African destinations, African tourism, CAPA, codeshare, Emirates Airline, Qatar Airways, TAAG Angola Airlines, transit hub, United Arab Emirates, Windhoek flights

International Airlines Operators in Nigeria Earn N302bn from Ticket Sales

May 13, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

Airlines that operate international destinations from Nigeria made over N302 billion ($15 billion) from ticket sales in 2015. The airlines included European mega carriers, US carriers, African and indigenous operators. Among the major carriers emirates earned the highest money of N50 billion, followed by British Airways with ticket sales of N48 billion during the period. Also, Air France sold tickets […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: African Aviation, African tourism, Air france, Boeing, British Airways, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Etihad Airways, European carriers, FAAN, Lufthansa, passengers, Qatar Airways, Rwanda Air Express, turkish airlines, US carriers

Rizwan Kadri Confirmed As Managing Director/CEO, SAHCOL

April 7, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

By Friday Nwosu The board of Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL), has confirmed the appointment of Rizwan Kadri as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (COO), with effect from 1st April, 2016. Rizwan Kadri joined the grand handling firm in December, 2015 as Chief Operating Officer (COO), but was later appointed as Acting Managing Director in January,2016, after the former Managing […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: aviation, AvMP, Cargo, EASA, Emirates Airlines, grand handling, IAA, IATA, India, Kenya airways, Kuwait Airways, Mumbai Airport, Mumbai University, passenger, Qatar Airways, Ramp, Rizwan Kadri, SAHCOL, terminals, tourism, Traveller

Comair partners with Qatar as it starts flight to St Helena

March 23, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

Antoinette Slabbert Comair on Monday announced the imminent arrival of a new R900 million Boeing 737-800 as the latest addition to its British Airways fleet. According to moneyweb.co.za, the aircraft is one of eight in Comair’s R3.5 billion fleet renewal programme and will service the airline’s new route, the first-ever air service to the remote Atlantic ocean island of St […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: aircraft, Airport, aviation, British Airways, Comair, emperor Napoleon, Erik Venter, Mauritius, Namibia, passengers, Qatar, Qatar Airways, South Africa, St. Helena, tourism, travellers, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Gulf, China Airlines set to take over aviation in Africa

March 21, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

Africa is tipped to be one of aviation’s hot spots over the next 10-20 years. Growth rates are already strong, as increasing numbers of countries on the continent expand economically and develop a middle class. According to tourismobserverblogspot.com, commercial aviation in Africa is still constrained by a combination of poor infrastructure, restrictive visa regimes and protectionism. Which makes it difficult […]

Category: ATQ News Archive, Aviation Tags: Abu, Accra, Addis Ababa, Africa, Airlines, Algiers, Asian, aviation, Bamako, Beijing, China, Chinese, codeshare, Dar es Salaam, Dhabi, Doha, dubai, Durban, Emirates Airline, Entebbe, Ethiopian, Etihad Airways, France, French, Guangzhou, Gulf, Johannesburg, Kenya airways, local airlines, Paris, passengers, Qatar Airways, South African Airways, western Central Africa, Zanzibar

Qatar CEO: Airlines have been taking African passengers to the cleaners

March 7, 2016 Sunday Onen Leave a comment

By Selene Brophy Cape Town – Qatar Airways has inaugurated its newly launched Durban-Doha route, as part of an expansion of the airline’s operations and decade-long investment in South Africa. The new route will see a four-times-weekly flight between the two cities, with a total of 21 flights a week now connecting South Africa to Qatar Airways’ global network. The […]

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