Botswana Short-Lists Six Companies to Manage National Airline Botswana short-listed six foreign companies to operate Air Botswana, the state-owned carrier, for three years and return it to profit, said Gerald Thipe, permanent secretary in the Transport Ministry. April 02, 2008, 05:11:15 AM          Full Story | Comments (0) | Send To Friend | 68 views

Ethiopian and Lufthansa set to Launch Codeshare Flights Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to announce to its esteemed customers the commencement of codeshare flights with Lufthansa German Airlines as of March 30. These flights will operate on the Addis Ababa-Frankfurt route. “The new code share agreement marks a significant landmark as we are now in the position to offer our customers daily connections from Addis Ababa to Lufthansa’s hub in Frankfurt with convenient onward flights”, noted Mr. Tewolde G.Mariam, Chief Operating Officer of Ethiopian. March 22, 2008, 01:48:31 PM          Full Story | Comments (0) | Send To Friend | 43 views

TAAG Angola remains on European blacklist The European Union will keep TAAG Angola on its blacklist until at least June, despite EU technicians having “confirmed progress” in the rectification of safety problems. March 19, 2008, 05:30:34 AM          Full Story | Comments (0) | Send To Friend | 60 views

Wings Aviation's aircraft missing Three persons are feared dead in a turboprop twin engine aircraft which went missing in Nigeria yesterday. The aircraft, a Beechcraft 1900D, with registration number 5N-OAL, operated by Wings Aviation Company Limited on charter, reportedly took off at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, for Obudu in Cross Rivers State. March 16, 2008, 01:04:52 PM          Full Story | Comments (0) | Send To Friend | 49 views

South African Airways Launches daily nonstop flights from Entebbe South African Airways recently announced an increase in its flights to Entebbe, Uganda, from the current five per week to a daily flight. March 14, 2008, 03:04:03 PM          Full Story | Comments (10) | Send To Friend | 68 views

Ethiopian Graduates 16 Pilots The Ethiopian Aviation Academy graduates 16 trainee pilots that have completed the commercial pilot course with Instrument and Multi-Engine Ratings. Among the graduates 15 are Ethiopian sponsored and one is self sponsored trainee. March 14, 2008, 02:56:25 PM          Full Story | Comments (0) | Send To Friend | 52 views