Tag: aviation
Aviation This Week – June Edition 1
In this week’s edition, highlights of events relevant to Ghana’s aviation space are highlighted as follows:
Emirates now Connecting Accra with Daily Flights
Dubai-based Emirates Airline...
Aviation This Week – April Edition 3
In this week’s edition of Aviation This Week, find highlights of relevant news of players in Ghana’s aviation industry gathered from April 12 –...
Aviation This Week – February Edition 3
Aviation news featured on this week’s edition are topical happenings relevant to Ghana’s aviation space from February 15- 20, 2021.
Passion Air Announces Daily Flights...
Aviation This Week – January Edition 2
This Week’s edition of ‘Aviation This Week’ entails some topical stories in Ghana’s aviation industry from January 3 – 9, 2021. The Highlights are...
Aviation This Week – Part 5
This Week’s edition of “Aviation This Week” features seven topical stories from December 7 to December 12, 2020.
vflyAir to Begin Commercial Operations in Ghana
All...
Aviation This Week – Part 4
News summaries for this week’s edition of ‘Aviation This Week ’ outlines some major events relevant to Ghana’s aviation industry within November 29, 2020...
Aviation This Week- November 14, 2020
‘Aviation This Week’ seeks to give an overview of events relevant to the aviation industry of Ghana by considering relevant activities from 9th to...
Goldstar Air, Government of Liberia partner to revive Liberia Airline
Goldstar Air, a wholly owned airline, has entered into partnership with the Government of Liberia to revive Liberia’s airline.
Liberia’s new...
China eases restrictions on domestic airlines to boost aviation market
China's civil aviation regulator on Tuesday announced adjustments to its management policies for domestic airline services in a bid to boost the virus-hit industry.
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Not wearing mask can put flyers on no-fly list: India’s civil aviation watchdog
India's civil aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) chief Arun Kumar said Friday refusal to wear a face mask on board a...
Tanzania’s aviation watchdog orders registration of drones
Tanzania's civil aviation watchdog on Monday directs all owners of drones in the country to register their devices by Aug. 28, saying failure to...
COVID-19: Restrictions on transport sector lifted; trotros, taxis to take full capacity
As part of the second phase of easing of COVID-19 restrictions by the government, commercial vehicles are to return to taking the normal number...
International airlines resuming flights to China amid relaxed COVID-19 restrictions on aviation
International airlines are resuming flights to the Chinese mainland as China has eased its COVID-19 restrictions on aviation.
On Wednesday, German airline Lufthansa resumed scheduled...
Uganda’s air transport regulator seeks US$41 million for bail-out
Uganda's air transport regulator is seeking 150 billion shillings (about 41 million U.S. dollars) from government to enable it run the aviation industry in...
Towards the New Normal: IATA, ACI lead the way
The Health Minister of Ghana, Kwaku Agyeman Manu during one of the Ministry of Information’s press briefing on coronavirus indicated that the novel coronavirus...
Global aviation industry to soon heal COVID-19 wounds – Kadri Samsunlu
The aviation industry across the world would soon heal its wounds caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 and rise again from where it left...
GRASAG Alumni calls on authorities to act decisively amidst COVID -19 pandemic
The Alumni of the of the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) is calling on government to act quickly and decisively amidst the...
Aviation employment sector in Namibia affected by COVID-19
Namibia's private airline, Westair Aviation on Wednesday announced that it has commenced with a restructuring exercise that will see the retrenchment of a portion...
Uganda issues stringent measures to airlines from countries heavily affected by COVID-19
,Uganda's aviation regulatory body has issued stringent guidelines that airlines flying from heavily affected novel coronavirus (COVID-19) countries must follow.
The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority...
South African company, WearCheck, expands operations in Ghana
WearCheck, South African condition monitoring specialists, have upgraded their laboratory in Tarkwa into a state-of-the-art testing centre to now conduct transformer oil, coolant and...
Yaw Afful to Prioritise Flight Training
Mr Yaw Afful, Deputy Minister designate for Aviation on Monday promised to team up with the Minister to ensure that there are modern airplanes,...
President Akufo-Addo to Cut Sod for Two Aviation projects
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will, on Friday, February 15, perform a groundbreaking ceremony at the Kotoka International Airport for the commencement of expansion...
Ghana Government Prioritise Aviation Safety
Aviation safety and security is the top priority of the Government, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, Aviation Minister has stated in Accra on Friday.
He said...
China Ready to Explore Africa’s Aviation Sector
Mr Jiang Zhouteng, Acting Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ghana, has said China is ready to work with African countries to...
Nigeria pledges to improve aviation infrastructure
Nigeria will speed up the improvement of aviation infrastructure in the country to enhance the country's economic development, President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday.
The Nigerian...
Nigeria: Pressure Builds Up Over the Establishment of National Airline
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday revealed he is facing growing pressure from many patriotic Nigerians to establish a national airline.
“I equally support a national...
Kenya Trade Expo Ghana 2017 Opens In Accra
Mr Robert Ahomka-Lindsey, a deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, said breaking the frontiers in intra-African trade is needed to propel the African continent...
Ghana’s Aviation Training School Now Ready
Plans are far advanced to establish an Aviation Training Institute to train more people to provide career opportunities in the industry.
Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah,...
Ghanaians advised to honour their tax duties
Nii Ayi Aryeetey, President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana, has called on Ghanaians to honour their tax obligations to enable the government...
Emirates initiates simulator challenge for female pilots
Championing the importance of women’s contributions to the growth and development of aviation, Emirates recently hosted Shaesta Waiz for a Boeing 777 simulator challenge...