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...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angola Airlines (Taag) and British Airways Tuesday signed an agreement in Luanda to start weekly flights on the Luanda-London route from November. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) flights to the United States and other countries would be operating as scheduled on September 11, sources affirmed Tuesday. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verdean Airports and Air Safety Authority (ASA) and the Airport Company of South Africa (ACSA) have signed a protocol on cooperation in various areas of common interest. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African Airways (SAA) 747 aircraft, which was flying to Frankfurt, Germany returned to Johannesburg International Airport when one of its four engines stalled after take-off Thursday morning. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Next week's World Summit on Sustainable Development will provide South Africa the opportunity to put to test a unified set of Draft Regulations on Air Transport Services for eastern and southern African countries. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- A weekly flight between Cape Verde and Sao Tome begins 27 October under a bilateral agreement signed by the airlines of the two countries over the weekend. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Airways (SAA), South African Airways Pilots Association (SAAPA) and South African Airways Flight Engineers Association (SAAFEA), have reached an agreement after protracted talks on salary increases. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The government Tuesday ruled out the reinstatement of 32 Kenya Airways employees sacked in April over allegations of drug trafficking. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A South African Airways (SAA) flight was denied landing Thursday by Malawi officials at the Chileka International Airport in Blantyre, aviation sources said. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana's national carrier, Air Botswana is registering impressive profit margins, ahead of plans to go private in May next year. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egypt's civil aviation minister, Ahmed Shafeeq has fired the head of Egypt Air, Mohamed Fahim Rayan, who led the state-owned aviation group for nearly 23 years, Egyptian papers reported Tuesday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Cheikh Tidiane Camara, Paris Representative of multinational carrier Air Afrique is suing the Company's staff in France for libel, his lawyer said Friday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Libyan airline Afriqiyah Airways made a maiden Tripoli-Cotonou flight Wednesday, following an agreement between Benin and Libyan aviation authorities. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Kenya Airways plans to send 15 trainee pilots to the flying school of the Ethiopian Airlines for a two-year piloting course, the public relations department at Ethiopian Airlines said in Addis Ababa. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Reunion's regional airline, Air Austral, has cancelled all flights to Malagasy's Administrative centres and Provinces, except the nation's capital Antananarivo, to which the flights have also been reduced, officials of the airline said at the weekend. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A non-governmental organisation has filed a suit at the Nigerian federal high court for revocation of a panel investigating a plane crash in which 148 people were killed 4 May. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian aviation expert has advocated the urgent repair of faulty radars at the nation's airports as part of efforts to stem the spate of air accidents in the country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following a spate of air disasters in the country recently, the Nigerian government is seeking the assistance of foreign experts to inspect all aircraft in the country, local press reports said Thursday. Full text...

Kinshasa- RD Congo (PANA) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing a new air navigation system with assistance from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), civil aviation sources said in Kinshasa Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria and South Africa have directed their national airlines to resolve their differences over a failed joint venture they entered into last year on the Lagos-New York route. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) will beginning 1 July add Milan, Italy to its list of destinations, with departures scheduled from Johannesburg International Airport on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded from Sunday night to Monday morning following a 13-hour power cut at Nigeria's main gateway, the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, local newspapers reported Tuesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- State-run Air Zimbabwe has stopped flights to DR Congo over unpaid bills amounting to 4 million US dollars by its Congolese joint venture partner, the airline's spokesman David Mwenga said Sunday in Harare. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Air Madagascar has suspended all flights from Wednesday until further notice, Managing Director James Andrianalisoa, has announced. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's national career, Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL), has decided to resume the Lagos-New York route on its own, following the collapse of a joint venture agreement between the airline and its South African counterpart, South African Airways (SAA), the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde's airline, TACV, intends to purchase two Boeing aircraft in a bid to strengthen its position in the international market, informed sources in Praia have disclosed. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA), in a joint venture with Technikon Pretoria, on Monday awarded certificates to the first batch of trainees who successfully completed a contact centre management course under the airline's Learnership programme. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- An air link between Mayotte and Paris via Nairobi will be opened in 2003, with the French government agreeing to extend the Mayotte airport runaway, official sources confirmed in Saint-Denis on Saturday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- In another classic show of the end of the apartheid era, the South African Airways (SAA) Tuesday announced the appointment of its first black captain, Mpho Mamashela. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Pupils in the northern parts of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province are this week receiving a taste of what it is like to work in the aviation industry. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Kenya Airways (KQ) plan to increase their routes within Africa under a joint partnership, to counter the effects of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, officials said Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Since taking to the skies again, Concorde supersonic jets are R10 million (about $884,995 US) per year more fuel efficient, thanks to the South African company -- Aerodyne Aviation Technology. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government has extended by one year the pact between Nigeria Airways and the South African Airways on the lucrative Lagos-New York route, the daily Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Dutch carrier, KLM is to start cargo flights to Ethiopia from March under the December 2000 Ethio-Netherlands bilateral Air Services Agreement. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa Airways (SAA) is upgrading its fleet to boost under a programme, an official said Friday could cost the Company up to 1. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- French airline company Air Liberté made a flight to Algiers at the weekend, the first since French airliners quit the route following the hijacking in 1994 of an Air France plane by terrorists. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways says all its staff and crew on board an SAA aircraft in Nigeria's main city of Lagos were safe following a series of loud explosions near the city's airport on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Direct flights between Nigeria and neighbouring Niger are to start soon following the signing of a bilateral air services agreement between the two countries Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- ECOWAS' proposed regional airline, ECO- AIR, is scheduled to commence operations in the first week of next April, the airline's co-coordination said Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) will resume flights to Mauritius on Wednesday, two days after they were cancelled because of cyclone DINA. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Air Senegal International will start regular flights from Dakar to Paris on 31 March, the airline's general manager, Zouhair Mohamed El Aoufir, announced here Thursday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Officials of the new Libyan airline, Afriqiyah Airways have opened the Tripoli-Niamey- Ouagadougou route, saying there will be a round trip flight between Tripoli and Ouagadougou every Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopian Airlines has started implementing its five-year plan of acquiring 14 jet airliners to beef up its fleet. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- "Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, please switch off your mobile telephones. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's ailing national carrier Thursday sacked 1,000 of its staffers as part of efforts to reposition the company for privatisation, a top official of the airline said. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Reports from the coastal city of Douala say Air France has accepted to compensate Cameroon Airlines (CAMAIR) for grounding the latter's plane in Paris, adding that it was thanks to the agreement that an Air France plane grounded in Douala was finally released Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways, South African Express Airways and South African Airlink are holding exploratory talks for the consolidation of their services and possible merger of the two feeder airlines. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde's airline TACV is preparing to take over some of the West African destinations which used to be served by Sabena Belgian airline and Air Afrique. Full text...