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louA340 wrote:Air Senegal took delivery of its first A220 a few days ago. They are expecting another two next year. The A220 presence in Africa is growing with EgyptAir, Air Tanzania and Air Senegal now operating A220s. Ibom Air currently leasing two from EgyptAir will also be operating their own in the near future. I think this type will be a very popular on the continent.
https://www.ifn.news/posts/air-senegal- ... rbus-a220/
louA340 wrote:Air Senegal took delivery of its first A220 a few days ago. They are expecting another two next year. The A220 presence in Africa is growing with EgyptAir, Air Tanzania and Air Senegal now operating A220s. Ibom Air currently leasing two from EgyptAir will also be operating their own in the near future. I think this type will be a very popular on the continent.
https://www.ifn.news/posts/air-senegal- ... rbus-a220/
rukundo wrote:Qatar Airways adds two more destinations in Nigeria: Kano and Port Harcourt.
QR currently serves Abuja and Lagos
Competition will be stiff with Ethiopian Airlines that has also a big network in Nigeria (4 destinations) and also the fact that Qatar Airways has code share agreements with RwandAir to Lagos and Abuja enabling more choice for Nigerians travelling to or from Asia either via Kigali or Doha (or both) Together with RwandAir / Qatar Airways: up to 3 flights a day to Lagos and up to 2 flights a day to Abuja.
Qatar Airways announces service to Kano and Port Harcourt
Doha: Qatar Airways is boosting its service to Nigeria with the launch of four weekly flights to Kano (KAN) on March 2, 2022, and three weekly flights to Port Harcourt (PHC) on March 3, 2022, both operating via the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The airline currently operates two daily flights to Lagos and four times a week to Abuja, which will expand to a daily service in March. Kano and Port Harcourt will become the seventh and eight new African gateways launched by Qatar Airways since the start of the pandemic. Both routes will be served by the state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner, featuring 22 seats in Business Class and 232 in Economy Class.
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/1 ... t-harcourt
mapletux wrote:rukundo wrote:Qatar Airways adds two more destinations in Nigeria: Kano and Port Harcourt.
QR currently serves Abuja and Lagos
Competition will be stiff with Ethiopian Airlines that has also a big network in Nigeria (4 destinations) and also the fact that Qatar Airways has code share agreements with RwandAir to Lagos and Abuja enabling more choice for Nigerians travelling to or from Asia either via Kigali or Doha (or both) Together with RwandAir / Qatar Airways: up to 3 flights a day to Lagos and up to 2 flights a day to Abuja.
Qatar Airways announces service to Kano and Port Harcourt
Doha: Qatar Airways is boosting its service to Nigeria with the launch of four weekly flights to Kano (KAN) on March 2, 2022, and three weekly flights to Port Harcourt (PHC) on March 3, 2022, both operating via the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The airline currently operates two daily flights to Lagos and four times a week to Abuja, which will expand to a daily service in March. Kano and Port Harcourt will become the seventh and eight new African gateways launched by Qatar Airways since the start of the pandemic. Both routes will be served by the state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner, featuring 22 seats in Business Class and 232 in Economy Class.
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/1 ... t-harcourt
Water canon salute at Port Harcourt on arrival of the inaugural flight.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500119661677056003
rukundo wrote:Air Senegal is eyeing Martinique with the possibility of serving Fort de France from Dakar
The establishment of an air service between Martinique and Senegal is becoming clearer
Launched two years ago, after initial exchanges in Senegal, the project to set up an air service between Fort-de-France and Dakar could see the light of day soon.
https://la1ere-francetvinfo-fr.translat ... r_pto=wapp
In the footsteps of TAAG Angola Airlines which serves Cuba, and Air Peace (Nigeria) which serves Jamaica via Ghana, during certain periods (there were flights in 2020 and 2021)
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... ce+jamaica
The slave trade dispersed Africans all over this region. More and more people are researching their roots. In Rwanda there is a small Jamaican and Bahamian community..
It mainly concerns African Americans. It is difficult to know the number if there is a market ( I have doubt for the moment). The African Diaspora is so fragmented.
Maybe we will have to wait for the continent to develop more before seeing this kind of routes carrying mainly black people who return to the Continent and black people wanted to maje memorial tourism. Many African countries are trying to attract these people
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TACV will lease a B737-700 from Angola Airlines. It is planned to fly to Lisbon tomorrow. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d2-tbf
https://inforpress.cv/taag-plane-made-a ... pK8JzU100E
caribny wrote:rukundo wrote:Air Senegal is eyeing Martinique with the possibility of serving Fort de France from Dakar
The establishment of an air service between Martinique and Senegal is becoming clearer
Launched two years ago, after initial exchanges in Senegal, the project to set up an air service between Fort-de-France and Dakar could see the light of day soon.
https://la1ere-francetvinfo-fr.translat ... r_pto=wapp
In the footsteps of TAAG Angola Airlines which serves Cuba, and Air Peace (Nigeria) which serves Jamaica via Ghana, during certain periods (there were flights in 2020 and 2021)
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... ce+jamaica
The slave trade dispersed Africans all over this region. More and more people are researching their roots. In Rwanda there is a small Jamaican and Bahamian community..
It mainly concerns African Americans. It is difficult to know the number if there is a market ( I have doubt for the moment). The African Diaspora is so fragmented.
Maybe we will have to wait for the continent to develop more before seeing this kind of routes carrying mainly black people who return to the Continent and black people wanted to maje memorial tourism. Many African countries are trying to attract these people
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TACV will lease a B737-700 from Angola Airlines. It is planned to fly to Lisbon tomorrow. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d2-tbf
https://inforpress.cv/taag-plane-made-a ... pK8JzU100E
Routes between the Caribbean and Africa will more interest Africans who live in the Caribbean. There are thousands (maybe even tens of thousands) of Ghanaian and Nigerian professionals living in the Caribbean. As of now they must return home via either the USA or the UK. Once these routes are viable there might be some heritage type of tourism generated out of the Caribbean, especially to Ghana, which actively promotes this.
The big constraint though will be the need for seamless connections or else people will continue to fly though LON or NYC.
behramjee wrote:Part 1 of Air Senegal Summer 2022 capacity expansion has now been opened for sale
DSS-CMN from 5 to 6 weekly eff 28Mar
DSS-COO-DLA-LBV from 4 to 5 weekly eff 29Apr
DSS-JFK-BWI from 2 to 3 weekly eff 14Jun
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Sentra Airways, a British start-up airline, intends to commence 6x weekly flights from Manchester to Accra from September 2021.
http://sentraairways.com/
rukundo wrote:
B747-437B wrote:rukundo wrote:
This might be the most badly researched, outdated and factually inaccurate article about African aviation that I have ever read (and that is a very low bar already). It's like the authors googled 10 year old newspaper articles and used that as the basis for their comments.
B747-437B wrote:https://www.afritraveller.com/post/africa-world-airlines-increases-flight-frequency-to-abuja
Africa World Airlines is adding a 5th weekly service between Accra and Abuja.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, AWA operated this route 11 times weekly so this route is recovering very slowly relative to the domestic market in Ghana which already exceeded 2019 totals in 2021 and is on track for an all-time record again this year.
louA340 wrote:I'm surprised it's taken this long to ramp it up. Recent flights I've taken have always been full both ways. Ticket prices are also astronomical for the route these days.
ikolkyo wrote:I noticed Air Senegal is operating DSS-JFK-BWI with a leased A343, what’s up with 6V-ANB (A339)? It appears to be parked for some reason.
B747-437B wrote:ikolkyo wrote:I noticed Air Senegal is operating DSS-JFK-BWI with a leased A343, what’s up with 6V-ANB (A339)? It appears to be parked for some reason.
Senegal is not an FAA Category 1 state so aircraft registered in Senegal are not permitted to operate to the United States. Air Senegal's operating authority only permits this service using wet-leased aircraft.
B747-437B wrote:Air Peace of Nigeria has made an unsolicited offer to acquire 75% of LIAT based in Antigua, an offer that has been rejected by the Government of Antigua.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... d-for-liat
rukundo wrote:Air Peace suspends flights to South Africa over Aviation Fuel, visa delay https://dailytrust.com/just-in-air-peac ... visa-delay
China Flight: Passengers commend Air Peace, call for continuity https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/chi ... ontinuity/
Chadia Airlines, it's over https://www-financialafrik-com.translat ... r_pto=wapp
Emirates Cuts Flight to Lagos Due to $85m Trapped Revenue https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2 ... d-revenue/
Top 100 busiest airports in Africa
UPDATED 2022-08-09
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Africa measured by scheduled departures daily (and not number of passengers). Note that we have only accounted for scheduled passenger flights and not freighters or chartered flights. The numbers are the daily avarage from next week.
https://www.flightsfrom.com/top-100-airports-in-africa
https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 3921166337 & https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 2665310209
mapletux wrote:rukundo wrote:Air Peace suspends flights to South Africa over Aviation Fuel, visa delay https://dailytrust.com/just-in-air-peac ... visa-delay
China Flight: Passengers commend Air Peace, call for continuity https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/chi ... ontinuity/
Chadia Airlines, it's over https://www-financialafrik-com.translat ... r_pto=wapp
Emirates Cuts Flight to Lagos Due to $85m Trapped Revenue https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2 ... d-revenue/
Top 100 busiest airports in Africa
UPDATED 2022-08-09
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Africa measured by scheduled departures daily (and not number of passengers). Note that we have only accounted for scheduled passenger flights and not freighters or chartered flights. The numbers are the daily avarage from next week.
https://www.flightsfrom.com/top-100-airports-in-africa
https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 3921166337 & https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 2665310209
Thank you for providing this summary.
Is this something you are able to do regularly in future? That would be awesome.
rukundo wrote:Emirates to suspend Nigeria flights from September over trapped funds
Dubai's Emirates will suspend flights to Nigeria from next month over an inability to repatriate funds from Africa's most populous nation, the airline said on Thursday.
B747-437B wrote:rukundo wrote:Emirates to suspend Nigeria flights from September over trapped funds
Dubai's Emirates will suspend flights to Nigeria from next month over an inability to repatriate funds from Africa's most populous nation, the airline said on Thursday.
This is a more complicated situation than usual in Nigeria. You could previously mitigate forex crunches there (which are extremely regular occurrances) by spending in Naira -- you could pay your airport taxes, government taxes, fuel bill, ground handling, catering, etc.. in Naira so you would at least spend a chunk of your local earnings that way.
However today the requirement is that foreign airlines have to pay EVERYTHING in hard currency - so you have to collect fares and taxes from passengers in Naira at an unrealistic "official" rate, but then you have to pay bills and remit those taxes to the government in USD at much higher market rates. This is simply unsustainable.
Basically its not even that you cant get your money out, but you also have to keep pouring in good money after bad just to keep operating.
Add to this the fact that the current aviation minister seems to have a longstanding grudge against Emirates (no idea why), and I can understand why they have decided to temporarily pull the plug on Nigeria until after the presidential elections scheduled for next February. Depending who comes to power (they almost certainly will not retain Sirika in the Aviation Ministry regardless), there will be a clean slate to at least resume discussions in good faith again - something that is simply impossible in the silly season just 6 months out from the polls.
berari wrote:Emirates can't be the only one to be impacted ... what others are taking action, and what do you foresee here?
Also, do these rules apply to Nigerian carriers such as Air Peace?
B747-437B wrote:rukundo wrote:Emirates to suspend Nigeria flights from September over trapped funds
Dubai's Emirates will suspend flights to Nigeria from next month over an inability to repatriate funds from Africa's most populous nation, the airline said on Thursday.
This is a more complicated situation than usual in Nigeria. You could previously mitigate forex crunches there (which are extremely regular occurrances) by spending in Naira -- you could pay your airport taxes, government taxes, fuel bill, ground handling, catering, etc.. in Naira so you would at least spend a chunk of your local earnings that way.
However today the requirement is that foreign airlines have to pay EVERYTHING in hard currency - so you have to collect fares and taxes from passengers in Naira at an unrealistic "official" rate, but then you have to pay bills and remit those taxes to the government in USD at much higher market rates. This is simply unsustainable.
Basically its not even that you cant get your money out, but you also have to keep pouring in good money after bad just to keep operating.
Add to this the fact that the current aviation minister seems to have a longstanding grudge against Emirates (no idea why), and I can understand why they have decided to temporarily pull the plug on Nigeria until after the presidential elections scheduled for next February. Depending who comes to power (they almost certainly will not retain Sirika in the Aviation Ministry regardless), there will be a clean slate to at least resume discussions in good faith again - something that is simply impossible in the silly season just 6 months out from the polls.
B747-437B wrote:berari wrote:Emirates can't be the only one to be impacted ... what others are taking action, and what do you foresee here?
Also, do these rules apply to Nigerian carriers such as Air Peace?
Everyone is similarly impacted right now. Most of the airlines are either reducing frequencies significantly or else restricting sales in Nigeria to higher RBDs only.
The Nigerian carriers are the worst affected. Air Peace for example has nearly half of its fleet grounded again due to the inability to access forex for maintenance and spare parts. One of the brand new E195-E2s has also supposedly been "scrapped" for parts to keep some of the others flying.
flyfresno wrote:
rukundo wrote:It seems that US Airlines are not really interested to serve alliance hubs in Africa.