British Airways franchise partner BMed plans to extend its network to West Africa at the end of October with a thrice weekly service from London Heathrow to Freetown in Sierra Leone and Dakar in Senegal. It will be the only airline operating direct links from the UK to the two African countries, not served by BA since the early 1990s.
Source: Airline Business
Eastern Canada’s Air Transat has big ambitions to expand transatlantic flying with its growing fleet of long-range jets, and Africa is now within reach.
New Lufthansa Group operator, Lufthansa City Airlines, will begin ticket sales tomorrow ahead of its operational launch on 26 June.
Fraport, the operator of Frankfurt airport, one of continental Europe’s busiest, says that air traffic had to be completely halted on two days in 2023 due to drone incursions around the airfield.
