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Senegal is a colorful cultural destination with its very own desert, no less than seven Unesco World Heritage Sites and endless things to see and do.
The announcement that Air Senegal is launching twice-weekly flights between Senegal and the U.S. in September will likely boost Senegal as an attractive destination for U.S. travelers.
Air Senegal will launch U.S. service on Sept. 2, flying from the Senegalese capital of Dakar to New York JFK with continuing service to Washington Dulles. The West African airline, which began operations in 2018, will fly the route using an Airbus A330-900neo. The three-cabin aircraft will offer 32 lie-flat seats in business class, a 21-seat premium economy cabin and 237 seats in economy.
Russia blocks flights as West s standoff with Belarus over diverted plane hits international air travel By Mary Ilyushina Fallout from Belarus flight grounding
Moscow Air France canceled its Paris to Moscow flight for the second day in a row on Thursday after Russia refused to approve a new route bypassing Belarus, the company said in a statement. Yesterday, the flight was postponed, and today it was canceled for the same reason we have no clearance, an Air France representative was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. We canceled the flight because we do not have a new path for entering Russian territory.
27 May 2021
The Foreign Secretary has welcomed the decision by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), supported by an overwhelming majority of international delegations, to launch an international fact-finding investigation into the events relating to the forced landing of Ryanair flight FR4978 in Belarus on Sunday 23 May.
The announcement follows the Belarusian authorities’ diversion of a passenger flight from Greece to Lithuania. The Ryanair jet carrying over 100 passengers was diverted to Minsk on the basis of a false bomb scare in order to arrest an opposition journalist - in a further move by the Belarusian authorities in its ongoing war against independent journalism and opposition voices.
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No proof that intel officers were on board Ryanair flight, says Greek PM
Prime Minister Mitsotakis noted that he had heard a lot of spy theories concerning the Ryanair flight redirected to Minsk
BERLIN, May 27./TASS/. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that Athens had no evidence that intelligence officers could be on board the Ryanair flight, where Roman Protasevich, one of the co-founders of the Nexta Telegram channel, was among the passengers. As far as we know based on the work we have done, and of course we do work together with intelligence services - there is no evidence that there were agents on board, the prime minister said in an interview with the German Bild newspaper, published on Thursday.