By TesfaNews, The wait is now officially over. The first flight of Turkish Airlines’ has touched down Asmara International Airport tonight. Turkish envoy to Eritrea, Ambassador Firat Sunel brakes the wonderful news on his twitter page a couple of hours ago.
Continue ReadingBy Qatar Airways, QATAR Airways today announced a further expansion of its African operations with plans to launch scheduled flights to Eritrea’s capital city Asmara, effective 4 December 2014. The twice-weekly flights will operate from Doha to Asmara and will be served by an Airbus A320 featuring 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, AN INCIDENT on Tuesday 29th April by Yemenia Airbus A330-200, flight IY-630 from Sana’a caused Asmara Airport to close temporarily. The incident happened after the plane landed and slowed safely on Asmara’s runway 07 and an attempt by the pilot to turn around and backtrack at the end of the runway to taxi, the nose and […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, ERITREAN Airlines this week announced to resume scheduled flights to the Middle East, connecting Asmara once again with Jeddah and Dubai with two weekly flights starting the first week of May. According to the announcement, the national carrier will fly to Dubai every Tuesday and Sunday while to Jeddah every Monday and Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Capital Eritrea, THE EUROPEAN Commission has updated for the 23rd time the European list of airlines subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union — better known as “the EU air safety list”. The list contains banned Air Operator Certificate holders from more than 90 airlines, mainly from the African continent. […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, Turkey and Eritrea today signed the first-time bilateral Civil Aviation Agreement in Asmara. Earlier today, Turkish envoy to Eritrea, Ambassador Firat Sunel, disclosed that he had a historic meeting with a team of Eritrean Civil Aviation Authorities (ECAA) to negotiate on the terms of the aviation agreement. The deal will finally pave the […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, World’s finest and fastest growing airline, Qatar Airways, has started preparation to commence its maiden flight to the Red Sea state of Eritrea in the coming months. “We hope to come to Eritrea soon, if you would like to be considered submit your details now” was the message that reads on the career […]
Continue ReadingBy Aljazeera, A large fire has engulfed Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights. By late Wednesday, the airport, East Africa’s largest transport hub, re-opened for domestic and cargo flights, officials said. Kenya Airways said its first overseas flights from London and Bangkok would arrive, as scheduled, early on Thursday and will be processed […]
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