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Airports Of The Future: 10 Predictions for Air Travel
Over the past ten years, technologies, such as biometric security, mobile check-in, and baggage tracking, have dramatically transformed the way…
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Trade News
Airline Offers WhatsApp Boarding Passes
Johannesburg, 14 March 2019 – FlySafair has announced that its passengers will now have the option to send their boarding…
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Trade News
Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 Crashes En Route to Nairobi
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 March 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed that its flight ET 302/10 March in schedule service…
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Trade News
ORTIA Unveils Multi-Billion Airport Precinct Plan
JOHANNESBURG, 12 February 2019 – O.R Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) today unveiled the first phase of an R4.5 billion mixed-use…
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Trade News
Airline Security Staff Face Bribery Charges
KEMPTON PARK, 2 January 2019 – The management of O. R. Tambo International Airport have been informed that disciplinary hearings…
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Aviation
ACSA Signs Airports Agreement With Thailand
JOHANNESBURG, 14 December 2018 – Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has signed a sister airports agreement with Airports of Thailand…
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Trade News
Ryanair Launches New Transfers Service
Europe’s first and largest low fares airline, Ryanair, has launched Ryanair Transfers, a new transfers booking platform, powered by CarTrawler,…
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Cape Town Boosts Air Access to Asia
Cape Town Air Access – a partnership between Wesgro, the Western Cape Government, the City of Cape Town, Airports Company…
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Aviation
Tips on Holiday Travel with Kids
If you have kids, no doubt you love them to bits and relish spending time with them over the holidays.…
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Trade News
Cathay Pacific Appoints Country Manager for South Africa
Cathay Pacific has appointed Ashish Kapur as the Country Manager for South Africa and the airline’s Indian Ocean regions, taking…
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Trade News
Air Mauritius Flying High Despite Quarterly Loss
Air Mauritius financial results for the first quarter of their 2017/2018 financial year reports positive operating performance despite a bottom-line…
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Trade News
fastjet Increases SA-Zimbabwe Flights
The low-cost pan-African airline fastjet has increased the number of flights on its route between Johannesburg and Harare, and launched a…
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Trade News
FlySafair Drops GDS Prices
Johannesburg – 24 May 2017. FlySafair announced today that it has refiled all its fares into the Global Distribution System (GDS)…
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Trade News
Lufthansa Appoints New Africa Region Vice President
As of 01 May 2017, Dr Stefan Kreuzpaintner has been appointed Vice President Sales EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)…
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Trade News
ORTIA Suspends 35 Staff Over Illegal Commissions
Kempton Park, 22 April 2017 – O. R. Tambo International Airport today announced that 35 of 56 information desk staff employed by the airport have been…
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Aviation
Unsustainable Aviation? The US Open Skies Debate
According to the Partnership for Open and Fair Skies, Gulf-owned Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates aim to dominate global…
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Trade News
#TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia Campaign Success
When Jerome Jarre, a French social media star with 1.3 million Twitter followers (@jeromejarre), learned that Turkish Airlines is the only…
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Trade News
Munich Airport & ACSA Expand Sister Airport Agreement
Following the very successful start to the “sister airport agreement” signed by Munich Airport and Airports Company South Africa SOC…
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Trade News
Delta’s 2017 Wine Menu is Now Boarding
JOHANNESBURG, March 1, 2017 – Delta’s Master Sommelier, Andrea Robinson, has hand-picked her 2017 Wine selections, offering exclusive choices to…
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Trade News
New Restaurant Opens in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2
The Alps just got a little closer: “Sportalm”, the latest addition to the wealth of food choices in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2, will…
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Trade News
ACSA to Cut Tariffs by 35.5% from 1 April 2017
Johannesburg, 5 January 2017 – Airports Company South Africa today announced that a new permission to levy airport charges at…
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Trade News
Peak Season Safety and Security Alert for Airports
The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) in collaboration with multiple stakeholders, has implemented additional security measures for the festive peak…
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Trade News
Busy Airports of the World: A StoryMap
This StoryMap from Storetraffic pinpoints the top eight busiest airports as of 2016. This chart is likely to change as…
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New Turkish Airlines Durban Flight Route
Turkish Airlines Announces Brand New Flight Route to Durban Amidst World Routes Durban 2015 In 2015 The World Routes Development…
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Trade News
Comair Shows Profitability in No-Growth Market
Johannesburg, 14 September 2015: In the absence of revenue growth in the domestic passenger market and despite a challenging financial…
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Aviation
Are SA’s Low Domestic Airfares Sustainable?
In an industry known for small margins and high operating costs, South Africa’s low domestic airfare prices could be a…
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Conservation
Vultures and Aviation
Vultures are listed as endangered and VulPro are appealing to pilots to respect Africa’s vultures and their habitat. Even one…
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Trade News
Airline Tickets: Biggest Online Purchases in SA
The 2014 South African eCommerce Report shows that airline tickets are the biggest online sellers among South Africans with 68.09%…
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Long-haul Travel Sentiment: Europe
Travel sentiment in Europe’s key long-haul travel markets proves upbeat for the summer travel period as shown by the latest…
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Trade News
FlySafair Delivers Excellent Performance
Six months into operations and having reduced prices on some domestic routes by up to 39%, FlySafair attributes its success…
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Aviation
Open Skies under attack
The US Open Skies policy and resultant market liberalization agreements entered into with governments around the world are under attack…
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Aviation
Open Skies for Africa
“The potential for growth in tourism will not be realised unless we open the skies in Africa.” Gillian Saunders –…
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Trade News
fastjet Passenger Statistics for June 2014
fastjet plc is pleased to announce its passenger statistics for the month of June 2014. fastjet operations in Tanzania carried…
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Aviation
Is Flying Safer Now?
According to the Aviation Safety Network, 2012 was the safest year in terms of aviation accidents across the world since…
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