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  • Aviation pact to boost tourism between two countries

    ANGOLA, 2014/09/15 Kenyan overnment has signed an aviation agreement with Angola, paving the way for increased contact and trade between the two nations. The Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) signed by Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau and Angola’s Minister for Transport Augusto da Silva Tomás, will open the way for Angolan airline TAAG to start direct flights between Luanda and Nairobi. The agreement signed last week is an upgrade on an before one signed between the two governments in 2011, which Kenya Airways relied on to launch its flights to Angola. Kenya Airways currently operates three direct flights on the Nairobi-Luanda route.

  • Angola remains a country which keeps her airspace under lock

    ANGOLA, 2014/09/15 Angola remains a country which keeps her airspace under lock and key and is one of Africa’s most restrictive nations vis-a-vis the Yamoussoukro Agreement which, considering how some African governments implement or rather not implement this ground-breaking aviation accord, remains a distant vision punctured by the stark reality of national protectionism. Next four years of bilateral negotiations, Angola has finally put pen to paper last week to allow one additional frequency between the two nations, up from before two. While the news was welcomed in aviation circles, regular sources have swiftly pointed out that Kenya Airways has in fact been flying three times a week by presently between Nairobi and Luanda, using a B737-800NG under flight number KQ 770.

  • FlySAX set to return to Juba

    KENYA, 2014/09/14 Reports from Nairobi suggest that FlySAX will from November onwards return to the Juba route which the airline withdrew from some years back due to competitive pressure. It could not be established how a lot of flights per week were planned, though the JKIA based source did mention that it would be a daily service. The same source as well said that FlySAX was planning to launch double daily flights from Nairobi to Mogadishu and commence flights from Nairobi to Entebbe just as any minute at this time as at least one additional aircraft, reportedly an MD83, would join a mixed fleet of Fokker 28 and DC9 jet aircraft by presently in use by the airline.

  • Rift Valley Railways (RVR) yesterday confirmed that they have secured a US$20 million loan facility

    KENYA, 2014/09/14 Next taking delivery of three brand-new General Electric locomotives before this month, out of a total of 20 ordered, Rift Valley Railways (RVR) yesterday confirmed that they have secured a US$20 million loan facility from Standard Bank of South Africa and CFC Stanbic Bank to complete payments for the delivery of the new locomotives, all of which are due to have joined the fleet by April next year. RVR itself will inject US$5 million from internal sources into the purchase transaction which is the initial for new locomotives in decades next former rail operators Kenya Railways and Uganda Railways had failed to modernize and upgrade crucial assets.

  • Seychelles - Madagascar: New air service

    MADAGASCAR, 2014/09/14 Why Air Seychelles chose September 11, a dark day in aviation history considering the events of 13 years ago, to announce the launch of flights to the Madagascar, capital of Antananarivo, may remain a mystery, but the essence is that next the proposed flights to Dar es Salaam, Madagascar, one of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands Organization founder members, will be next. The inaugural flight is due on December 3, still subject to regulatory approvals apparently, and the route will be served initially twice a week with a two class Airbus A320 which offers 16 Business Class and 120 Economy Class seats. The new route is bound to increase inter-island travel between the various Vanilla Islands and comes in the wake of Air Austral, Reunion’s home airline launching twice weekly flights between the island’s capital of St. Denis and Mahe at the end of June. From Reunion, all neighboring islands will be served - Mauritius, Madagascar with in fact three destinations on the island, Mayotte, the Comoros, and, of course, the Seychelles, too.

  • Kenya’s carrier Safarilink has launched direct flights to Lodwar in Northern Kenya

    KENYA, 2014/09/13 Kenya’s carrier Safarilink has launched direct flights to Lodwar in Northern Kenya, as it expands its footprint in the region. Safarilink began flying five times weekly between Nairobi and Lodwar via Lokichar in Turkana County. This becomes the 13th destination to which the carrier provides daily scheduled services. The new route will be operated by a 35-seater, DeHavilland Dash 8. Speaking during the launch of the flights in Lodwar, Safarilink Aviation Managing Director, Mr. John Buckley, said that the introduction of these flights provide an opportunity for the airline to support development of other sectors, beyond tourism.

  • Latest Dreamliner ready to deploy on Dubai route

    KENYA, 2014/09/10 The use of a new Dreamliner aircraft will offer passengers the new inflight entertainment and feature a new cabin layout with improved features in both business and economy class for Kenya Airways. While the airline is preparing to receive its fifth B787-8 Dreamliner this coming weekend, news has emerged that the new aircraft will be deployed on the busy route to Dubai from October onwards. The four B78s by presently flying for Kenya Airways are deployed on a number of routes inclunding to Johannesburg and Paris, where they have restored the fuel guzzling aged B767-300ERs which are presently being phased out from the fleet to take full chance of the 20 % lower fuel burn, additional seats, better cargo uplift and wider range the Dreamliner has brought with it.

  • Uganda: Museveni Blamed for Trillion Railway Deal Mess

    UGANDA, 2014/08/20 Details of President's meetings exposed Mbabazi, Otafiire, Nyombi, Byabagambi, Byandala, Solicitor General, UPDF officials sucked in Confusion threatens to hurt oil industry. On July 25 President Yoweri Museveni held a crisis conference at his country home in Rwakitura with government officials over the roughly US$ 8 billion (Shs 20.8 trillion) railway transaction. Peter Nyombi, the Attorney General, his deputy Fred Ruhindi, James Byandala, the Minister for Works and Transport, John Byabagambi, the National Minister for Works, Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister for Presidency and Edgar Agaba of Agaba Muhairwe & Co. Advocates, attended the conference.

  • Chinese Company Completes Massive Angolan Railway

    CHINA, 2014/08/20 China Railway Construction, one of China's major construction companies, finished building a massive railway line in Angola on Wednesday and plans to put into operation this year. The 1,344-km Benguela railway is the second-longest railroad built by Chinese overseas, shorter only than the 1,860-km Tanzania-Zambia Railway built in the 1970s. It will be the longest and fastest track in the southwestern African country of Angola, said Liu Feng, chief of China Railway Construction's Angola railway project.

  • Tanzania: Balancing Between Passengers, Airport Expansions

    TANZANIA, 2014/08/18 THERE are signs that East Africa airline passengers' flow will increase given discovery of lucrative business of oil and gas particularly in the southern part of Tanzania which is attracting a lot of foreign investors. As well airport expansions going on part the member states are a pulling and pushing catalyst for passengers' increment. For examples Tanzania and Kenya are implementing multibillion projects in their terminals, both named, next the names of their founding fathers, Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta.
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