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Cameroon Airline Company Commences Online Sales

By Sirri A. Ngwa

The Cameroon Airline Company, Camair-Co, official flag bearer of the Republic of Cameroon's Air transport and headquartered at the Boulevard de la Liberté in Douala has commenced online sales of tickets. This is in line with the company's careful policy of improving the quality of services rendered to its customers. The online sale now opens the company to the global market.

Kenya Airways soars with United Bank for Africa in a Pan African Commercial Venture

By Ambe Lizzette

Kenya Airways has entered into a partnership with one of the largest financial services institutions in Africa; United Bank for Africa Plc to promote trade and remittances across the continent. The UBA  a leading Pan-African Bank with presence in 19 African countries, New York City (USA), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Formalized by Kenya Airways Chief Operating Officer Mr. Bram Stellar and Managing Director of UBA Kenya Mr. Muyiwa Akinyemi, this partnership will see the bank highlight trade opportunities and financial products through onboard cabin advertising.

Kenya, Ethiopian carriers battle for West Africa skies

Kenya Airways (KQ) and Ethiopian Airlines are set to intensify their battle for the lucrative East and West African skies, opening new destinations and increasing frequencies in a fresh attempt to wrestle passengers from dominant European and Middle East carriers — and from each other. KQ plans to open new routes to traditional Ethiopian destinations of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Luanda in Angola in addition to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Juba in Southern Sudan.Both carriers have a similar strategy of ferrying passengers from West and Central Africa into their respective hubs — Nairobi for KQ and Addis Ababa for Ethiopian Airlines — from where they connect mostly to Southern Africa, the Middle East, India and the Far East. On October 25 last year, Ethiopian Airlines hacked into the KQ network, simultaneously mounting new flights to the two lucrative KQ destinations of Mombasa and Monrovia (Liberia). Ethiopian Airlines is now flying daily to Mombasa and three times a week to Monrovia; the Monrovia flight also covers Conakry in Guinea....More

Ethiopian Airlines plane makes emergency landing

An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet which made an emergency landing in Chad due to a radar problem took off again Friday, but 120 of its 150 passengers refused to board, airport authorities said. The plane, a Boeing 737 en route from Dakar in Senegal to Addis Ababa via Bamako in Mali, "left this morning at 5:00 am (0400 GMT)," said an airport official, as well as airport police. The incident comes days after another Ethiopian Airlines 737 with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean minutes after takeoff from Beirut during a raging thunderstorm on Monday. There were no survivors.Of the 150 passengers on the African flight, "120 refused to leave on the Boeing," an airport official said. "They have been put up in different hotels. A large plane will come to collect them."...More

Kulula Airlines expands fleet with eight new Boeing 737-800s

South Africa's kulula operated by Comair Limited, is expanding its fleet to include eight state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800s. Despite tough economic times and the difficulties of competing against state-subsidised competitors such as South African Airways, kulula has continued its run of success enabling it to substantially grow its fleet from a single aircraft in 2001 to 8 aircraft in 2010. The new aircraft will help to cater for the high passenger volumes over summer, as well as assist in keeping ticket costs manageable during the World Cup. The first of the kulula Boeing 737-800s will take to the skies this month and the rest will be phased in during 2010. The new planes are amongst the most efficient aircraft currently available, making them cheaper to operate and since they use less fuel kinder to the environment than older planes. Kulula first took to the skies in August 2001 as South Africa's first low fare airline,pioneering a new way of flying making it affordable for anyone to fly. kulula comes from the Zulu word meaning "easily". Its fleet consists of two Boeing 737-200's (118 seats) and seven Boeing 737-400's (165 seats). Operates over 325 flights a week with 15 routes including three regional destinations.

World Cup transport licence worries in South Africa

By Antoinette Slabbert

If you plan to provide transport services during the World Cup soccer tournament, you need to apply for a temporary operator's licence before February 28, 2010. The minister of transport recently published the tournament's transport regulations in the Government Gazette. However, industry leaders are concerned about the authorities' ability to process the applications in time. Those who provide public transport for a fee, as well as hotels and guest houses which transport guests with a minibus, midibus or bus - or will use three or more vehicles, are obliged to obtain a temporary licence.

BMW Group retail Grows

BMW Group sales continued their upward trend. Overall, the company delivered 11.5% in November 2009 more vehicles than the same month in 2008 at 107,686 (prev. yr. 96,609) units. Since the start of the year, 1,162,510 (prev. yr. 1,323,453 / -12.2%) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce have been sold worldwide. Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for Sales and Marketing: “Since September, sales have been back on the growth track...”

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Mozambican airline resumes flights to Portugal

Mozambique's national air carrier announced Tuesday that it will resume flights to Portugal, the first time in a decade that it has offered the service. Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) said in a press release that it would resume the flights "within the first semester of this year."

Ethiopian Airline Receives the NEPAD Award

In a ceremony held on November 25, 2009 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ethiopian won the NEPAD Transport Infrastructure Excellence Awards 2009. According to NEPAD, Ethiopian was honored as an institution in Africa that contributed to the development of transport infrastructure in the continent in line with the aims and objectives of NEPAD and the African Union. The development of transport infrastructure is seen as an important component and a prelude to regional integration. The contribution of Ethiopian Airlines in facilitating the regional integration through its long standing motto "Bringing Africa Together" and its continuous effort to build modern infrastructure has helped it stand out among its African compatriots. Ethiopian Airlines, one of the largest and fastest growing airlines in Africa, made its maiden flight to Cairo in 1946. In July 2009, Ethiopian won ‘Airline of the Year 2009’ award at African Business Award organized by the London based African Business Magazine and Common Wealth Business Council.

Invest in Africa: Discover South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is the place to invest in 2010. It is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory. (See Media Club South Africa). Modern humans have inhabited Southern Africa for more than 100,000 years. At the time of European contact, the dominant indigenous peoples were tribes who had migrated from other parts of Africa about one thousand years before. From the 4th-5th century CE, Bantu-speaking tribes had steadily moved south, where they displaced, conquered and assimilated original peoples of southern Africa. At the time of European contact, the two major groups were the Xhosa and Zulu peoples. By UN classification South Africa is a middle-income country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange that ranks among the top twenty in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centres throughout the entire region. South Africa is ranked 25th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2007. Advanced development is significantly localised around four areas: Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Pretoria/Johannesburg. (See photo gallery).  Some key marginal areas have also experienced rapid growth recently. Such areas include Mossel Bay to Plettenberg Bay; Rustenburg area; Nelspruit area; Bloemfontein; Cape West Coast; and the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast...Discover South Africa.© The Entrepreneur Newspaper 2010. All Rights Reserved . Follow The Entrepreneur News on Twitter. See Our Events in Face Book.