Which airline will double flights between Entebbe and Nairobi come 01st of June?
GOOD NEWS FOR UGANDAN TRAVELLERS AS RWANDAIR STEPS UP NAIROBI FLIGHTS (Posted 23rd May 2015) Uganda’s adopted home airline, RwandAir – the story of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority’s folly of eleven months ago when in an attempt to save themselves from being cited by ICAO they all but destroyed Ugandan aviation is of course […]
News updates from the Conservation Action Trust
The efficacy of trading rhino horn debunked May 21, 2015 | News24.com | Andreas Wilson-Späth |PLEASE REPUBLISH A group of local and international experts converged in Cape Town on Tuesday to discuss the legal and illegal trade in endangered wildlife. Jo Shaw, the manager of WWF-SA’s Rhino Programme, sketched an overview of the dire situation […]
No more delays please …
CONTRACTOR FOR MOMBASA BYPASS GETS READY TO START DIGGING (Posted 22nd May 2015) The Kenyan government yesterday finally launched the decades old project of a bypass from Mombasa to the South Coast, when the contractors were handed the site and put in a position to mobilized manpower and equipment to begin construction of the first […]
Zimbabwe next for Fastjet as recruitment starts
FASTJET ZIMBABWE ENTERS RECRUITMENT PHASE (Posted 22nd May 2015) Good news are in the pipeline for Zimbabweans looking for employment in the aviation industry after Fastjet has just launched a major recruitment drive as the airline is getting ready to go operational. After Fastjet (Z) received its Air Service Permit (ASP) in March 2015 is […]
How technology helps travelers to save money – Lillan Gaitho’s weekend contribution
Lillian Gaitho’s weekend contribution deals with the question how modern technologies can help travelers to make journeys, and their preparation, less stressful and less costly … Six Ways Technology can Help You Save on Travelling Costs Since the advent of mobile payments, online travel agencies and quirky applications that almost allow you to see into […]
This airline stays a travellers favourite by supporting local sports
BRUSSELS AIRLINES BREAKS NEW GROUND WITH SHIRT SPONSORSHIP OF KAVC (Posted 22nd May 2015) KAVC have just announced that Brussels Airlines has signed up with them to become their official shirt partner for the Men’s team in the 2015 Volleyball Season. The record league champions for now is the only volleyball club in Uganda with […]
Aviation training workshops in June …
May 2015 Can’t see this Email? View in browser Sofema Aviation Services Returns to Johannesburg – June 2015 Sofema Aviation Services is very pleased to be returning to Johannesburg to deliver another series of EASA Compliant “essentials” regulatory training courses. Special offer – please quote "Joburg Special offer" 3 delegates for the price of 2 […]
Want to see a volcanic eruption – here are the fares to get to Reunion
The present outbreak of the Piton de la Fournaise has raised keen interest in many parts of the world. Read on how to get to Reunion and get a glimpse of the fire spitting mountain …And if I were to compress the following into just three mentions I would say: Reunion is hot, the airfares […]
Free WiFi for those arriving and departing impressions from the paradise islands
TOURISTS NOW GET FREE WIFI AT MAHE’S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (Posted 21st May 2015) Seychelles’ leading telecommunications company Cable & Wireless has reportedly just signed an agreement with the Seychelles’ Civil Aviation Authority to provide free WiFi services for passengers at the archipelago’s main airports. Benefitting will arriving and departing passengers using the international terminal, allowing […]
Why is IATA coming to Kigali next week? Read on to find out.
RWANDAIR – THE AFRICAN AIRLINE TO WATCH (Posted 21st May 2015) Rwanda, the proverbial Phoenix risen from the ashes, is rightly seen as a prime example that Africa is not all about chaos and coups, dictators, disorganization and disease but living proof that principled and disciplined leadership can accomplish everything the so called developed countries […]
Seychelles’ Carnival still makes headlines and front pages across the world
Is this the secret of the Seychelles’ success to market the archipelago?Read on on to find out! Tourism promotion meets with success as Seychelles Carnival makes the cover page of May 2015 edition of European magazine Success is easy to take for granted, but the tireless efforts by the Team at the Seychelles Tourism Board […]
The travel habits of Kenyans – now all out in the open.
Lillian Gaitho has earned a firm place on my blog and week in week out finds topics which raise the interest of readers and add value for them. Here is her latest contribution, she is taking a good hard look at the travel habits of Kenyans, and an interesting read that makes! Kenyan Travel Habits: […]
Brazil and Seychelles enter new era of aviation cooperations
SEYCHELLES SIGNS BILATERAL AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH BRAZIL (Posted 21st May 2015) The Seychelles Tourism Board has for a while now been eyeing the South American markets, among them Brazil, to tap into that country’s substantial outbound tourist pool. Presently about 1.000 Brazilians visit the archipelago every year, a figure STB seeks to increase substantially. […]
Which country bucks the trend in East Africa and shows constant tourism growth?
WHAT IS RWANDA’S SECRET TO THE COUNTRY’S TOURISM SUCCESS (Posted 20th May 2015) When I recently asked the Seychelles’ Minister of Tourism what the secret of success was to drive the archipelago’s tourism industry to ever greater heights, year after year, did Alain St. Ange, tongue in cheek, answer ‘If I told you that it […]
African saints are becoming more popular year after year
THE LONG MARCHES TO NAMUGONGO HAVE STARTED AGAIN (Posted 20th May 2015) One of, if not the highest profile event on the Ugandan’ calendar of cultural and religious festivals, the annual Uganda Martyrs Day celebrated on 03rd of June, is rapidly rising on the horizon again. Pilgrims have commenced their long walks from Uganda’s four […]
Another Dreamliner – another two African routes!
ETHIOPIAN ANNOUNCES NEW ROUTES JUST DAYS BEFORE DREAMLINER #13 ARRIVES (Posted 20th May 2015) Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed that effective 30th of June two more destinations in Southern Africa will be added to their African network. Gabarone / Botswana and Cape Town / South Africa will become the airline’s 50th and 51st continental destinations and […]
Major East African airport carries out ICAO mandated drill
DO NOT PANIC – THIS IS A DRILL (Posted 20th May 2015) Several regular sources yesterday early morning were swift to pass information that ‘Something is going on at JKIA’ but upon further investigation and when getting in touch with the Kenya Airport Authority it soon became clear that Jomo Kenyatta International Airport was undergoing […]
Enough is enough as this African airline answers back
KENYA AIRWAYS CLEARS THE AIR (Posted 20th May 2015) Sections of the Kenyan social media have made it their favourite pastime to tear into Kenya Airways at every given opportunity in recent months. Often met with stoic silence has the airline now however decided to respond, long overdue in the view of many of their […]
Major blood ivory bust reported from Singapore
SINGAPORE AUTHORITIES SEIZE 3.7 TONS OF BLOOD IVORY (Posted 20th May 2015) (Picture courtesy of KenyaBuzz) Nearly 1.800 tusks were confiscated yesterday by authorities in Singapore, making it one of the largest busts ever against global syndicates trading in blood ivory. The consignment, found in a container shipped from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, reportedly […]
Rhino News
Save the Rhino needs you… View this email in your browser I want to be a Rhino Legend Once upon a time rhinos lived a peaceful life without threat of poaching or extinction…that’s how the story should read. Unfortunately it doesn’t. What’s more, if we don’t re-write the narrative now, we face losing this magnificent […]
A red carpet for visitors – well a red glow from an active volcano at least
CORSAIR OFFERS ‘VOLCANO SPECIALS’ TO MAKE ISLAND VISITS MORE AFFORDABLE (Posted 19th May 2015) In view of the current outbreak of the Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion’s active volcano, has Corsair yesterday launched special fares to the island for just Euros 696, return and all taxes included, a deal made possible in cooperation with IRT, […]
Which major Gulf airline finally launches their Android ‘App’
EMIRATES LAUNCHES ANDROID ‘APP’ TO GIVE THE OTHER HALF OF THEIR PASSENGERS EQUAL MOBILE FREEDOM (Posted 19th May 2015) Emirates, flying daily to Entebbe and double daily to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, has now launched their long awaited Android App for travelers flying with them who do not use Apple phones or tablets or […]
African LCC orders a fourth Airbus A319
FASTJET SET FOR FLEET INCREASE (Posted 19th May 2015) The 50 million UK Pounds capital raised a few months ago, reported here at the time, is apparently being put to good use already as Fastjet has commenced their long awaited fleet expansion exercise yesterday. Fastjet PLC, a company quoted at the London Stock Exchange, made […]
RIP Dr. Samuel Andanje – The conservation fraternity will miss you
KENYA’S CONSERVATION FRATERNITY MOURNS THE PASSING OF DR. ANDANJE (Posted 19th May 2015) Last weekend saw the funeral take place of Dr. Samuel Ambindi Andanje at his rural home in Ingotse, Kakamega County, attended by many of his colleagues and members of the conservation fraternity. Dr. Andanje was the Kenya Wildlife Service’ Head of Ecological […]
Tourism to Northern Kenya gets massive boost through rhino relocation
RHINO RELOCATION SET TO ENRICH CONSERVANCY EXPERIENCE IN NORTHERN KENYA (Posted 19th May 2015) A long planned Eastern Black Rhino relocation went underway over the weekend to restock the Sera Conservancy with twenty of these prized animals, last seen in that part of the country over twenty five years ago. Two of the animals were […]
No 413 Wildlife Trade News: 19th May
The new week starts as the old one ended … with a daily dose of bad news from around the world about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes in the spotlight today …………………… Sarawak chief minister’s environmental reputation on the line –- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/sarawak-chief-ministers-environmental-reputation-on-the-line-sean-whyte#sthash.qAtnzb1i.dpuf No 413 Wildlife Trade News: 19th May Kenya: Vietnamese Man […]
Seychelles’ Tourism Minister confirms first eight nonstop Beijing – Mahe flights
SEYCHELLES TOURISM OFFERS SUPPORT FOR CAISSA TOURISTIC’ BEIJING – MAHE NON-STOP FLIGHTS (Posted 18th May 2015) ‘Seychelles Tourism Board will work with the Caissa Touristic team to give marketing support if its flights from China to Seychelles are non-stop’. This statement was made by Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture in […]
All it takes is a trip to this Indian Ocean Vanilla Island to watch a volcano erupt
PITON DE LA FOURNAISE ERUPTS AGAIN (Posted 18th May 2015) Reunion’s regional government on the 29th of April issued a notice that the island’s active volcano, the Piton de la Fournaise, was likely to erupt again, suspending all hikes to the rim of the crater and also direct overflights by helicopters, a very popular activity […]
Another airline falls by the wayside in Kenya
KENYA’S SOUTHEAST THROWS IN THE TOWEL – BLAMES COMPETITION FOR EXIT (Posted 18th May 2015) News are filtering in from Nairobi that Kenya’s Southeast Airlines – The Spirit of Liberty has finally faced up to reality and halted operations. The airline, which used a leased African Express Bombardier CRJ100 aircraft and which according to the […]
No 411 Wildlife Trade News: 17th May
If you thought that poachers or environmental criminals take a break on Sunday, read on and think again … in the spotlight today …………………… Jardine Matheson subsidiary accused of threatening at-risk species by cutting down swathes of rainforest for palm oil plantations . SUMATRA http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/jardine-matheson-subsidiary-accused-of-threatening-atrisk-species-by-cutting-down-swathes-of-rainforest-for-palm-oil-plantations-10255729.html Southwest Aceh District Chief Detained in Palm Oil Corruption Case. […]
