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I don't blame all critics, some are goods. I blame critics about the fact Brussels Airlines should be a big airline with a huge network around the world (North America, South America and Asia), like AF, KLM or Bitish Airways. The reality is the market (buisness, Visiting friends and relatives and le...

I quite often suprised to see so many critics about Brussels Airlines. I don't think that there are so many critics in Finland about Finnair, in Ireland about Aer Lingus or in Portugal about TAP Air Portugal. In 2000s, Finnair, Aer Lingus and TAP Air Portugal struggled and closed many routes. They h...

Ethiopian Airlines has just obtained slots for a service to Warsaw. The Addis Ababa Warsaw route should be operated via Athens by B787, from July 2024. Poland is the country in Europe with a small African diaspora as a percentage of its total population. But there are quite a few Africans who have o...

For the 49 years of presence in Rwanda (well that's not linked), Ethiopian Airlines will add a 3rd daily frequency to Kigali, from the start of the summer 2024 program. In terms of flights Kigali is one of the best served destinations after Dubai, Johannesburg, Entebbe which are the only lines in fu...

The general manager of Lufthansa Group in East Africa seems hint more flights to Rwanda could be operated in a future from the group. Not only will ✈️ Brussels Airlines launch a new service to #nairobi next summer, we will also increase flights to #kigali from 5 weekly to DAILY, starting June 2024. ...

Main O&D in Kigali post covid. It covers the period September 2022 to August 2023. So for the year 2023, it is not in full (4 months are missing) we would have to add several thousand more pax to complete the year 2023, on the most big O&D. In Brussels we are surely at more than 40,000 peopl...

Its better to fly"older"aircraft these days, new planes are not that safe anymore, too much hurry:quantity instead of quality! Not really Many aircraft suffered from problems when they were put into service, or a few years later. In some cases this led to disaster with deaths There was th...

The equivalent of the Stabel in Rwanda has published its annual book. 2023 is marked, but these are the data for 2022. The good news is that traffic has almost returned to pre-covid levels. Traffic increased from 494,955 pax in 2021 to 851,471 in 2022. The million mark will surely be reached again t...

And Air Senegal is already struggling due to technical glitch on their A330. They are currently leased aircaft

The aircraft was taking off, so probably a foreign object damage on the runway Interview with the CEO of RwandAir in Jeune Afrique. No big scoop. The airline plans to Expand the fleet from 14 to 25 aircraft within 5 years. Increase the number of destinations, the airline hopes to add more routes: fr...

Thus it's quite hard for Brussels Airlines to built a big hub. It's not 'hard' for Brussels Airlines. They are not even trying . And with 'they' I mean SN and above all its owner LH. LH wants to keep BRU and SN small by sucking all long-haul traffic out of BRU to their hubs FRA and MUC. Today alone...

I place it here as there is no dedicated topic for it. Mostly we compare BRU with other airports like VIE or some in Scandinavia, but we have to start to compare it also with WAW in Poland. Just to compare how hard WAW is growing: BRU had in 2019 >26 million pax, WAW had >18 million pax. Difference...

A RwandAir CRJ-900NG made a rejected takeoff this afternoon, following a tyre burst during the takeoff. No injuries. The aircraft was operating the Kigali Harare Cape Town flight. At that time it was operating the Harare Cape Town leg, with 65 passengers on board and 5 crew members. The tyre was cha...

Big upgrade on the Kigali Nairobi routewith Kenya Airways today. 3 flights per day but the afternoon flight operated by B787-8 :shock:. It never flies to East Africa (only training flights during the first deliveries in 2014), only to Johannesburg, Port Louis, Cape Town and Lagos in Africa. There wa...

Ethiopian Airlines will become the 2nd African company to serve Bangladesh, after Egyptpair. Flights will begin on March 8, 2024, with 5 flights per week before visibly becoming daily.

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In an article from Jeune Afrique about the Royal Air Maroc vs Air Algérie match, RAM plans to add new destinations in Africa: Tripoli, N’Djamena, Abuja, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Sal (Cape Verde), Oran, Khartoum, Kigali, Dar es Salaam and Addis Ababa. Abuja, Johannesburg and Nairobi (the code share wit...

The KC 390 is currently on tour in Africa. Arriving from the Dubai show, itmade a short stay in Rwanda at the start of the week. It is currently on his way to Johannesburg. South Africa and Rwanda having shown the desire to have this device. South Africa to surely replace its C130s, knowing that the...

Malawi Airlines has taken delivery of a B737-700 ex Asky. Which marks the return of the 737-700 to the fleet. The company still has Nampula, Kigali in its sights. It has just announced flights to Entebbe (Uganda). In my opinion there is a strong chance that it will be a double touch with Kigali. Wit...

The arrival of the A321XLRs in a year should allow Wizz Air to serve Sub-Saharan Africa. Targeted: Central and West Africa. The planes would be based in Abu Dhabi and London. Hungary would come after, namely that Hungary has signed 20 agreements with African countries in recent years. The one with R...

n interesting study from FowardKeys. So this is the 4th quarter of 2023. Rwanda recorded the 2nd biggest growth in Africa compared to Q4 in 2019. Belgium, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France are the largest markets. Germany recorded growth of more than 100% and France of more t...