Chad, Sudan reopen borders to international air travel

Tchadia Airlines to add B737NGs

Chad orders suspension of all scheduled pax flights

Chad has suspended all international and domestic passenger flights for a renewable period of one week from midnight on January 4, 2021, according to a decree issued by Sebgue Nandeh, Minister of Civil Aviation and National Meteorology.

The measure is aimed at containing a rise in COVID-19 cases in N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. Cargo flights will not be affected, according to a notice by the civil aviation authority of Chad (Autorité de l'Aviation Civile du Tchad - ADAC), which is responsible for enforcing the order.

According to the ch-aviation schedules module, at least seven airlines are affected by the ban including Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa), which serves N'Djamena from Addis Ababa and Douala, while Tchadia Airlines (CDO, N'Djamena) connects N'Djamena with Abéché, Moundou, Sarh, and Faya-Largeau. Sky Mali (ML, Bamako) serves the Chadian capital from Bamako, Jeddah, and Niamey. Air France (AF, Paris CDG) operates to N'Djamena from Paris CDG and Bangui. The capital is...

Togo's ASKY Airlines ends Dash 8 operations

Ethiopian Airlines ready to talk to Air Mauritius, SAA

Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) is in talks with Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) about its participation in the insolvent carrier and is also ready to enter into similar talks with other struggling airlines in Africa, Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam told Bloomberg.

"The Mauritian government is thinking of restarting that business with Ethiopian Airlines. We are at the initial point of the discussion to see what kind of partnership or joint venture it will be," he said.

Air Mauritius went into voluntary administration in late April.

He said that while no talks are currently ongoing, Ethiopian would also be willing to discuss options for rescuing South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo).

South African Airways was placed under business rescue in December 2019. However, following government's decision to cease funding the airline in early April, its business rescue practitioners (BRP) warned the airline faced the prospect of liquidation given the unlikelihood that it would successfully emerge from business rescue as a viable entity. Since then, talks have taken place between...