The European Union Air Safety Committee is expected to keep Angolan state airline Taag on the European Community’s blacklist despite recognising that progress has been made in solving safety problems

The governments of Ondo and Ekiti States, in south west Nigeria, have pledged to promote national flag carrier, Arik Air as the sole carrier on the Lagos-Akure and Akure-Abuja routes.

Egyptair have just announced that their subsidiary Egyptair Express will be inaugurating twice weekly flights linking Malta to Cairo on 3 July 2008.

A Hong Kong helicopter pilot arrested in Zimbabwe last week would appear in a Harare court on Wednesday to face a minor immigration-related charge.

Competition on East Africa’s most lucrative route, linking Entebbe and Nairobi, has intensified following Air Uganda’s re-entry into the market on a route that has been dominated by Kenya Airways since its main competitor was grounded in 2005.

FLY540, a Kenyan airline that recently started plying the Entebbe route, has introduced freight services for East and Central Africa using a Fokker 27 aircraft

A businessman died in an plane crash on Tuesday as he flew from Virginia Airport to Lanseria in Gauteng. Trevor Emanuel,managing director of the Key Motor Group Pinetown, was the sole occupant of the Lancair Legacy.

Air Mauritius will next month launch a weekly flight to Bangalore. The first flight is scheduled for April 28, under a code-sharing agreement with Air India.