Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The President of the African Development Bank (ADB) commended the advanced technology of the newly constructed passenger terminal and runway expansion project at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's Ministry of Aviation has dissociated itself from the proposed scheduled flights to the country by US airlines World Airways, saying it had not given any approval for the company to operate in the country. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A new cargo airline was inaugurated in Zimbabwe Thursday, which company officials said would service mainly regional and international routes. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Approach lights have been stolen from Cape Town International Airport, with airport manager Monwabisi Kalawe suspecting they might have been exported by a syndicate for sale to foreign airports. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The Namibian government has barred two South African airlines from using the Eros airport in Windhoek, in a move pundits see as aimed at shielding the ailing national carrier, Air Namibia from competition. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa has decided to release a Swissair aircraft impounded at the Johannesburg International airport because the owners had failed to pay service fees, airport officials said Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) launched its inaugural flight from Johannesburg to Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- US Airlines World Airways Incorporated has announced that it will commence non-stop passenger flights to Nigeria under a 22 million-dollar agreement signed with the Atlanta-based Ritetime Aviation and Travel Services. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- British firm Rolls-Royce announced on Monday that it had secured a 200 million-US-dollar aircraft servicing agreement with the South African Airways (SAA). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One of Nigeria's private domestic airlines, EAS, resumed operations Thursday, eight months after the crash of its BAC 1-11 plane in the northern city of Kano that killed dozens of passengers and forced the federal government to ban the aircraft type. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Airways has acquired a third Boeing 737-700 type plane, with 116-passenger capacity. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Libyan Airways has scheduled flights from the southern city of el Kufra to Sudan's western city of el Fashir beginning 15 January, Khartoum sources confirmed Tuesday. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Passenger traffic has in the last ten years doubled at Reunion's two international airports of Saint Denis and Saint Pierre, with a study showing the figures up from 816,000 passengers in 1990 to more than 1. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean aviation authorities have offered tax and other incentives to African airlines to lure them to fly into the country to boost tourism. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is negotiating with COMESA, other African and a few European countries to liberalise air routes within the framework of the Yamoussoukro Agreement, the authority said at the weekend. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Board of Directors of the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) began meeting Thursday at the Dakar headquarters of the organisation. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Security has been stepped up at South African airports in anticipation of more than five million passengers to and from the country during the Christmas season. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government has uncovered over $400 million fraud at the ailing Nigeria Airways between 1983 and 1999. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A new hi-tech training centre for student pilots has been opened at Port Elizabeth Airport in South Africa. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian Airlines has announced the suspension of all flights to Tel Aviv, Israel effective Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) and Air Tanzania, have struck a partnership deal worth 20 million US dollars, officials said Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The African and Malagasy Aviation Security Agency (ASECNA) has signed an agreement with Algeria's national air navigation authority (ENNA) in a move to strengthen cooperation between both organisations. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Minister of Equipment, Diabira Bakari, Sunday launched in Nouakchott, a Flight Information Centre (SIV), part of the 10 slated for some member countries of the Dakar-based Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA). Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) and British Airways (BA) have submitted bids for Malawi's equities in ailing national carrier, Air Malawi. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- The plan adopted Thursday to rescue ailing Air Madagascar by a majority of its 139 creditors owed some 34 million US dollars, has continued to make headlines in the country. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A forum of air companies of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) zone will meet in Ouagadougou Thursday and Friday to strengthen cooperation between their firms and financing institutions in order to service the zone better, official sources have said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Flight operations at Nigerian airports were grounded for several hours Monday following an unscheduled strike by the country's air traffic controllers. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Belgian airline Sobelair, is to introduce Brussels-Johannesburg direct flights from 26 November, a travel agency said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Andre Toby Kotazo, President of the supervising Ministerial Committee of the Agency for the Security of Air Transportation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), has expressed satisfaction with the financial performance of the Dakar-based Agency. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- British Airways which lost millions of pounds and laid off thousands of workers following the terror attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, has turned to Africa to open its first new international route. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- British Airways/Comair, a competitor of South African Airways (SAA), on Wednesday renewed its aircraft maintenance contract with SAA Technical for another five years in a deal worth 100 million dollars. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight arrived in Tripoli from Jeddah Wednesday, marking the resumption of flights between Libya and Saudi Arabia after an eight-year suspension. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Hundreds of travellers were stranded Tuesday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos due to inadequate aviation fuel supplies at Nigeria's main gateway. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) has added another flight on the Johannesburg-London route, raising to three a day the number of flights to London. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Five flight test engineers, four of whom are from historically disadvantaged communities, will be trained by the military group Denel after South Africa's Transport Education and Training Authority (TETA) granted more than 1. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) Sunday announced that it is increasing its flights to Kinshasa from two to three a week. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Somalia's Ministry of Air and Land Transport has reopened the Civil Aviation Authority, closed down seven years ago when the UN pulled out of the war-torn country. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Somalia's Civil Aviation Authority has officially resumed its activities after a seven-year closure. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- British Airways has announced the launching of flights to Angola, the official Angolan news agency reported Thursday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- National Airways and Finance Corporation (NAC) of South Africa Wednesday announced it had concluded negotiations for acquisition of 43 Air School, a leading pilot academy based in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape province. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The French communication and information outfit SITA is finalising the installation of a computerised system that would hook Ethiopia's new Bole International Airport terminal to the global network. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Kenya Airways is to increase flights from Addis Ababa to Nairobi from four to six times a week, Area Manager Emmanuel Chepkonga hinted Saturday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Tunis Air has leased two of its aircraft to Sudan Airways under a recent agreement by which it became a strategic partner of the latter. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Aviation minister, Kema Chikwe, Thursday defended a controversial joint venture agreement between government and the British Airwing Aerospace, for a new airline (Air Nigeria) to replace the ailing Nigeria Airways. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Investment Bank has announced a 20 million euro loan to Cape Verde for improvement of airport facilities and air traffic control system on Sal Island. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian Transport Minister Marcel Amon Tanoh, is on tour of 10 African countries, which along with Cote d'Ivoire, owned the defunct Air Afrique, to discuss the creation of a new airline, official sources said in Abidjan Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian aviation workers began a "warning strike" Friday to protest the planned privatisation of the national carrier, Nigeria Airways Ltd (NAL), and unpaid salaries. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Air Seychelles has reassured travellers of safety on board its aircraft saying the crew are well trained to deal with would-be hijackers. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) has announced a new service to Addis Ababa beginning 27 October, with direct flights from Johannesburg to the Ethiopian capital on Wednesdays and Sundays and from Addis Ababa on Mondays and Thursdays. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) will begin twice weekly flights to New York via Dakar, Senegal, from 7 January 2003, officials of the airline said Wednesday. Full text...