Airline News - Africa / Middle East.African Airlines Assn. on Wednesday criticized the European Union's publication of a list of airlines banned from operating to the EU "as damaging the African airlines business." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. AFRAA AFRAA African Airlines Association , the blacklist (1) A list of e-mail addresses of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with white list. (2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. "paints a negative picture of all scheduled flights from the continent." In a statement, AFRAA Secretary General Christian Kossi said that "no scheduled African airline member of IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. or AFRAA is included in the blacklist," yet it "sends the wrong message to the average European passenger that all African airlines are potentially dangerous and it is safer to travel with European airlines." In effect, this amounts to an act of "misinformation mis·in·form tr.v. mis·in·formed, mis·in·form·ing, mis·in·forms To provide with incorrect information. mis and unfair competition," he stated. Kossi also said none of the banned airlines flies to EU nations and the bulk of them "exist only on paper and nobody knows them." Mar 31, 2006 Emirates Emirates will add a second daily Dubai-Zurich flight from Oct. 29. This week it launched six-times-weekly service to Kolkata and thrice-weekly flights to Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (ăd`ĭs ăb`əbə) [Amharic,=new flower], city (1994 pop. 2,112,737), capital of Ethiopia. It is situated at c.8,000 ft (2,440 m) on a well-watered plateau surrounded by hills and mountains. , becoming daily from Dec. 1, all aboard A330-200s. It will operate eight-times-weekly service to Bangalore from Oct. 29. Mar 29, 2006 Etihad Etihad on March 24 it launched a new Abu Dhabi-Manchester service, bringing its network to 27 markets. By year end it will serve 34, including Dhaka, Paris, Casablanca and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to be added in the next few months. In the second half of 2006 it will launch flights to Doha, Kuwait and destinations in the Far East. Mar 29, 2006 Royal Air Maroc Royal Air Maroc (commonly called RAM) is the national airline of Morocco, based in Casablanca, the airline is the third-largest in Africa (behind South African Airways and EgyptAir). Royal Air Maroc will launch a major capacity increase with its summer schedule in an effort to bring more connecting traffic from North America and Europe into Africa. Total network ASKs will lift by more than 30% compared to summer 2005. In detail, RAM will offer 40% more capacity on international flights and 14% more on its domestic network aimed at consolidating traffic at its Casablanca hub. Capacity to France will rise 51% from April 1. On the rest of the European network, ASKs will increase 22% accompanied by a 10% gain in capacity to the Maghreb region and a 40% hike to Middle East destinations. African routes will see a 60% increase as RAM offers 60 flights per week to the rest of the continent. ASKs to North America will be up 45% as flights to New York JFK will grow to nine weekly and flights to Montreal to 10 per week. To handle the expansion, RAM took delivery of a 767-300ER and a 737-700 this quarter. It will take an A321 this month and a 737-800 in April. Mar 28, 2006 |
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