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Legal Dispute Upends Windhoek Airport Leaving Airlines Stranded

Victor Shalton Odhiambo — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:06:31 +0000

In an unforeseen turn of events, Windhoek Airport recently found itself embroiled in a legal dispute that led to significant disruptions in flight operations. The sudden termination of a ground service provider’s contract triggered a cascade of flight cancellations and diversions, affecting several airlines. On August 19, Windhoek Airport took a drastic step by terminating [...]

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Fly Namibia Withdraws Appeal Against Fly Etosha: What Led to the Decision?

Victor Shalton Odhiambo — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:42:32 +0000

Fly Namibia, the only scheduled airline in Namibia, has withdrawn its appeal against Fly Etosha, a newcomer airline founded by former Air Namibia pilot William Ekandjo. This decision comes after Fly Namibia’s initial appeal against Fly Etosha’s operating license sparked a ‘violent negative reaction’ from the public. In this article, we will explore the background [...]

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Namibia Aviation Forum 2022 – Day One Key TakeAways

Victor Shalton Odhiambo — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:23:55 +0000

Namibia’s aviation sector is shifting gears, as it opens its first aviation forum geared at “Reimagining and determining the direction to be taken by the Namibian aviation industry and its related ecosystem.” During the first day of the event that took place in Windhoek, Namibia, the proposal of harmonized air travel policies, sustainability, and enhancing [...]

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Podcast #8: Reimagining Namibia’s Aviation Landscape. A preview of the Namibia Aviation and Connectivity Forum with Bisey Uirab, CEO of NAC and Verengai Ruswa, Project lead.

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 07:52:21 +0000

The Airspace Africa podcast is dedicated to the African Aviation industry. In this episode, delivered via our partners, AviaDev and host Jon Howell, we visit the beautiful country of Namibia to preview the upcoming Namibia Aviation and connectivity forum, which will take place November 16-18 in Windhoek. Jon is joined by the CEO of the [...]

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Namibia is Set to Launch a Forum to Create a New Path for its Aviation Sector

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:09:20 +0000

Over a year ago, at the height of the covid pandemic, Namibia lost its 75 year old national airline. A major casualty of the economic downturn that resulted from the pandemic. Ofcourse Namibia was not alone in feeling the effects as the global aviation industry crushed under the weight of covid lockdowns and cross-border restrictions. [...]

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Inaugural Eurowings Discover Flight Touches Down at Victoria Falls

Victor Shalton Odhiambo — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:27 +0000

Eurowing Discover’s inaugural flight from Frankfurt to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe landed on Wednesday, 30, marking the launch of the airline’s newest destination in the Southern Africa region. The flight 4Y138 will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with a brief stop in Namibia and will be served with the 283-seat A330-300 contingent. A boost [...]

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Qatar Airways Reinstates Windhoek – Doha Route

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:53:51 +0000

Qatar Airways will resume its service to the Namibian capital, Windhoek from 25 June 2022 as part of its largest ever African schedule. With more than 200 weekly flights to 31 gateways across Africa following this launch, the Windhoek route will offer seamless connectivity for passengers to almost 150 destinations in the airline’s extensive global [...]

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Leipzig-Halle Airport Keeps Humanitarian Missions Flying with Further Relief Supplies to Namibia

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:30:18 +0000

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) has managed to keep its humanitarian air corridors open, helping with humanitarian missions and deliver assistance to vulnerable people as two further relief planes took off from the airport, destined for Windhoek, Namibia last week. In July, the world’s largest plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya operated by Antonov [...]

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Eurowings Discover Completes Inaugural Flight to Namibia

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:26:08 +0000

Lufthansa Group’s new leisure airline, Eurowings Discover, completed its first flight to Namibia today. Eurowings Discover operates five weekly connections from Frankfurt to Windhoek, with return flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. From summer 2022, the leisure carrier will even increase its service to daily flights with three weekly onward tag flights to [...]

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Antonov An-225 the World’s largest Airplane flies to Namibia’s Aid

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:43:04 +0000

The world’s largest plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya operated by Antonov Airlines took off on Wednesday morning from Leipzig, Germany on a flight to Windhoek, Namibia via Accra, Ghana carrying tons of medical supplies from Germany. The foreign ministry of Namibia announced on Wednesday that the first of three aid flights from Germany will arrive [...]

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