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Several airlines have resumed services to Bujumbura after Burundi re-opened for international flights on November 8, 2020, having been closed for more than seven months to restrict the spread of COVID-19.
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, the first carrier to return was Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala ), which resumed 3x weekly services from Entebbe/Kampala starting on November 8. Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta ) followed close behind with 3x weekly flights from Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta on November 9.
Brussels Airlines (SN, Brussels National ) is scheduled to reinstate a weekly service from Brussels National on November 17. Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa ) resumed twice-weekly cargo flights from Addis Ababa on November 10, and will resume daily passenger services from November 18. RwandAir (WB, Kigali ) will be coming back with 4x weekly flights from Kigali on December 2.
According to an announcement made by Burundian government spokesperson Prosper Ntahorwamiye on national radio and television, strict health protocols are required. Arriving and departing…
Brussels Airlines (SN, Brussels National ) will accelerate its restructuring efforts under the Reboot Plus moniker, which will now be 90% complete by the end of the year, it said in a statement on November 5. This entails a 30% reduction in the fleet and a 25% smaller workforce.
Belgium’s national carrier will boost Reboot, which was initially launched in the third quarter of 2019, through “various short-term and long-term measures” in order to cut both variable and fixed costs to counter the effects of the coronavirus crisis. The turnaround scheme, which the carrier claimed had been “agreed with social partners and is in full implementation,” will “create the basis for a sustainable future for the company.”
The airline’s staff numbers had “already dropped by 14% compared to 2019” as of the end of September, the statement elaborated, but due to the volatile and unpredictable situation worldwide it could not make any workforce forecasts for 2020 as a whole.
The plan will enable the carrier “to start 2021 as a leaner Brussels Airlines,” CEO Dieter…
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l ) launched an offering of senior unsecured convertible bonds on November 10 for EUR525 million euros (USD618 million) due in November 2025, before raising it to EUR600 million (USD706 million) later in the day due to high demand and altering the conditions in its favour.
The bonds, which have […]