By flydubai, flydubai’s inaugural flight FZ665 has landed yesterday (25) in the capital city of Eritrea, Asmara. As it landed at Asmara International Airport, senior Eritrean officials including Tesfaslassie Berhane, Minister of Transportation and Communication, Askalu Menkorios, Minister of Tourism and Paulos Kahsai, Director General Civil Aviation Authority welcomed the flydubai delegation led by Sudhir Sreedharan, […]
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By flydubai, Dubai-based flydubai has announced the addition of Eritrea to its African network. Direct flights between Dubai and the capital city of Asmara will commence on 25 October 2015 with 4 flights a week. The flights will mark the start of the first direct link between Eritrea and the UAE. Asmara is the second […]
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By Craig Whitlock (for The Washington Post), THE skies above the U.S. military’s counter-terrorism hub on the Horn of Africa have become chronically dangerous, with pilots forced to rely on local air-traffic controllers who fall asleep on the job, commit errors at astronomical rates and are hostile to Americans, documents show. Conditions at Camp Lemonnier […]
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By Sudan Tribune, THE Eritrean Airlines on Sunday announced launching a new flight services to Sudan’s Red Sea state capital, Port Sudan from Asmara. According to the state-run Eritrean Television (ERITV) the inaugural ceremony was held at the premises of Port Sudan international Airport in the presence of Eritrean minster of Tourism, Askalu Menkorios, Red […]
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By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, THE United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has removed the prohibition that it placed on US carriers and commercial operators from overflying some parts of Ethiopia. The ban was placed in 2000 for north of 12 degrees north latitude during the Ethiopia and Eritrea border conflict, the FAA says. The removal […]
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By Qatar Airways, QATAR Airways has continued its expansion into Africa with the launch of services to its twelfth new destination this year, the Eritrean capital Asmara. Launched on December 4th, the new route will provide passengers to and from Eritrea with two weekly flights connecting Asmara via Doha to more than 140 destinations around the […]
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By TesfaNews, Today, Qatar Airways starts its maiden Doha-Asmara regular scheduled flights and the plane is expected to touch down Asmara International Airport tarmac at 2130. The twice-weekly flights will be served by an Airbus A320 featuring 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in Economy. The start of regular Doha-Asmara route by Qatar […]
Continue ReadingBy CH-AVIATION, ERITREAN Airlines (B8, Asmara) has wet-leased an Airbus A320-200 from Ukrainian ACMI specialist, YanAir (YE, Kiev Zhulyany). According to Skyliner Aviation, UR-CME (cn 671) was ferried from Kiev Zhulyany to Asmara on September 30 where it has now joined a B737-300, on wet-lease from East Air (EG, Dushanbe), and an in-house B767-200(ER).
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