From the TimeTablist The animated map sequence in this 1999 Air Afrique television commercial gives the viewer only moments to decipher Air Afrique's route network, and its European destinations are never in full view, with Rome discernible...
Air Afrique: Worldwide Network, 1999 Television Advert
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Our series from the TimeTablist Continues...This wonderful Air Afrique television advert from 1999 finishes Air Afrique Week on Timetablist. In the sequence, the palm of the boy's hand becomes the African continent, with the entire route network shown as the image zooms out across the globe....
Air Afrique: Route Map Poster c. 1962
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The penultimate post for Air Afrique Week brings this polychrome poster showing the home ports of the consortium. Little information is available for this print, which was a lot in a New York vintage poster auction in February 2010. While...
Air Afrique: Systemwide Timetable, July 1975. Detail # 1: Trans-Saharan Routes
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Still from the TimeTablistA detail from the previous post, showing the trans-Saharan routes of Air Afrique in summer 1975. Its a bit difficult to determine just which cities are served--does the line from Abidjan to Rome hit Tunis? Is the...
Vintage African Airline Timetables and Route Maps:Air Afrique-Systemwide Timetable, July 1975
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Our series from the TimeTablist Blog continues: This week, we will continue with Air Afrique 1975....Timetablist's Air Afrique Week continues: this copiously-detailed but rather low-tech brochure was published in July 1975, showing the entire...
AirAsia Should Fly to Africa - Mahathir
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Air Asia Africa Bound? Former Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad has urged Asia largest low cost carrier AirAsia to make Africa its next destination as part of its expansion plans. The PM was speaking during a Malaysian-Africa Business...
Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Best Locations For Airline Hubs In Africa
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Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Nairobi, Kenya are the best locations for the the creation of airline hubs in Africa, the Malaysia-Africa Business Forum recently revealed in a study.Ethiopia's Precise Consult International PLC managing partner Henok Assefa said this was because the best connections...
Social Media and the MENA Airlines
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Social Media amongst Middle Eastern and North African Airlines. Interesting read courtesy of Oussama's Take blog. This inspires me to do a follow up on African airlines and social media, which, my friends, will be coming soon The Arab Spring was attributed to the use of Social Media...
Turkish Airlines Set for Kigali
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Information was received overnight from Kigali that Turkish Airlines appears set to commence direct flights between Istanbul and Kigali / Rwanda, although the exact routing could not be confirmed immediately. The new connection will add yet more seats to the country, which has been busy promoting...
Kenya Airways Signs for 10 more Embraers and 10 more options
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African Aviation News this week: In a breaking news story it was confirmed that East Africa’s leading airline, Kenya Airways, has just signed a 10 aircraft deal – vis a vis a letter of intent – with Brazilian manufacturer Embraer for 10 more of their jets, with an added option for a further...
Eritrean Volcanic Eruption brings ash cloud scenario home
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African Aviation news this week:The recent eruption of a volcano in Eritrea and the subsequent ash cloud drifting across the continent is bringing home the Icelandic ash cloud scenario from last year to East Africa.According to airline sources flights are being delayed or even cancelled...
More bad news for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as Water Heater Explodes
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African Aviation news this week:Only days after a failure of electricity supply and of all backup systems brought East Africa’s busiest international airport to a complete and utter halt for several hours, leading to flight delays galore, has the explosion of a water heater in the government...
Fly Ethiopian Airlines and Earn Double Miles
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Ethiopian Airlines is offering double miles on its Sheba Miles program on the following routes: Fly between Addis Ababa and Frankfurt on Ethiopian Airlines and earn double miles. Your flight between Addis Ababa and Frankfurt in June and July 2011 will entitle you to double bonus miles. ...
Ethiopian Airlines New Nonstop Service from Addis Ababa to Milan in July 2011
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Ethiopian Airlines Second Destination in Italy Ethiopian Airlines will begin new nonstop service from Addis Ababa to Milan, Italy, Europe's fashion capital, effective July 2011.Milan is one of Europe's main transportation and industrial hubs...
African Aviation Events: 17th Aviation and Allied Business Leadership Conference
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The 17th edition of the annual Aviation & Allied Business Leadership Conference will be held at the Kilimanjaro Hotel Kempinski, Dar es Salaam from August 28 - 30, 2011.The Leadership Conference which is a private sector driven initiative has held annually since 1995 and attracted leaders...
Selling Air Zimbabwe would be a challenge given its financial state: Minister
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Air Zimbabwe is in such shambles and its financial position so hopeless it would be difficult to find takers even if the government decided to offload it, a Zimbabwean cabinet minister has said. State Enterprises and Parastatals minister...
Nigeria's BusinessDay Newspaper looks at South African Airways' Decade of Operation in Nigeria
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South African Airways has been operating flights to Nigeria for 13 years and Nigeria's leading Business Newspaper BusinessDay looks back at FlySAA's decade in Nigeria. Some quotes of note:"The cheerfulness on the faces of the crowd at the airport comprising Nigerians from business, corporate...
Nigerian Aviation Stakeholders decrying Poor Infrastructure
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Aviation stakeholders have urged the Nigerian government to upgrade the country's aviation infrastructure to support the country's aviation industry that has experienced some renewed growth in the last few years.The stakeholders describe the airport environment as "difficult one to operate"...
South Africa and Cameroon sign Bilateral Air services Agreement
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South Africa today signed a groundbreaking bilateral air services agreement with Cameroon which will help further open up the African skies to flying. The agreement was signed on the final day of the Transport Infrastructure conference at...
Kenya Airports Authority and Korea Airports Corporation Sign MOU
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Kenya Airports Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Airports Corporation, which will enable both parties to collaborate on various fields of airport operations, training, develop closer relations, build...
Air Afrique: Honorary Flight Covers, 1962 and 1966
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Two tremendous first day covers from La Republique de Cote D'Ivoire for Timetablist's Air Afrique Week Wednesday post. The first is a terrific 1962 envelope, celebrating the launch of the new carrier, with a brief-case bearing Ivoirian businessman,...
Vintage Postage: Air Afrique: Doula-Geneva, November 1969
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Adapted from the Timetablist's Air Afrique week. Our series continues. For more information on vintage airline route maps, postage and timetables for over the last five decades from around the world, visit the Timetablist blog.An attractive...
A glimpse into the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner for Ethiopian Airlines!
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The plane will be delivered to the Ethiopian Airlines in January 2012 and will be deployed on the Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China route.The first B787 will be delivered Lotnicznym LOT Polish Lines. This photo was taken during a recent visit...
An Ethiopian Airlines Journey: Is this one of the best customer reviews?
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I was scouring the web for information when I came across this detailed and awesome video review of Ethiopian Airlines by a very satisfied customer, RvXKaz, who is booking a flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok on Ethiopian. It makes me really want to Fly Ethiopian!! Are there other detailed reviews...
Kenya Airways CEO Dr. Titus Naikuni appointed to IATA Board of Governors
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Dr. Titus Naikuni, Group Managing Director and CEO of Kenya Airways, has been appointed to the International Air Travel Association (IATA) Board of Governors. Dr. Naikuni, who is serving on the board for the second time, was also appointed...
Air Afrique: B707 Stamp for the Republic of Benin c.1975
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For the next few months, we will be publishing select posts from the Timetablist, a unique aviation blog dedicated to airline route maps, route post cards from the last 5 decades. To our younger audiences,especially in Africa, it's a rare glimpse...
Ethiopian Airlines changes to B777 Lagos Route
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Effective beginning of June this year has Ethiopian Airlines introduced the B777 on the route between Addis Ababa and Lagos / Nigeria. Cross Africa traffic has grown stronger that the global average growth in aviation and ET is one of only two airlines to have fully understood and exploited...
Rwandair gets loan nod from Ex-IM bank in the US
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News from Kigali overnight confirm that RwandAir has secured a financing approval for their two brand new B737-800’s which are due for delivery in a few months time, through the American Ex-Im Bank, with fund disbursal to take effect via the PTA Bank, also known as the Eastern and Southern...
Kenya Airways set for Kilimanjaro Flights?
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Aviation circles in Tanzania are speculating intensely over Kenya Airways’ plans to include direct flights between their Nairobi hub and Kilimanjaro International between Moshi and Arusha, a route so far served exclusively by KQ’s Tanzanian partner airline Precision Air with ATR aircraft.These...
Kenya Airways takes delivery of new E190ER
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Kenya Airways recently released their financial year results but alongside more good news emerged when it was confirmed that their latest addition to the fleet, a brand new Embraer 190 had arrived overnight and was being readied for operations with the maiden flight due in under two weeks...
Kenya Airways going places, stays green at home
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The Kenya Airways sponsored tree planting project at the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi continues with now about 750.000 trees already planted of an intermediate target of 1.000.000 trees before assessing the success of the ‘Trees for Future’ engagement and launching fresh initiatives.KQ now...
Kenya Government to 'defend' thier stake in Kenya Airways
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Information was received from usually well informed circles in Nairobi that the government will during the upcoming additional share issue by Kenya’s national airline be defending their 23 percent shareholding in the publicly listed and traded company and underwrite their share options in...
The Impersonator: Steven Frischling aka @flyingwithfish Shoots himself in the foot
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Sorry guys I have been busy with work and I didn't get time to follow though with my story on Steven Frischling, the con artist who fooled the airline industry for almost four years.In my previous post I stated that Steven gave us very strong...
@flyingwithfish or Steven Frischling: The Airline Social Media Fraud
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Around 2008/2009, airlines and travel agencies were just discovering social media. The success of Jetblue at raking in a million followers and selling tickets via Twitter had inspired airlines to dream big. Maybe, just maybe, they could just...
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