EU Ban on TAAG
The following was seen on News24 today:
London - Angola's civil aviation authority has rescinded British Airways' permit to fly into the southwestern African nation, a spokesperson for the airline said on Monday.
"We were informed on Friday by the Angolan CAA that it had rescinded BA's seasonal operating permit with immediate effect," BA spokesperson Richard Goodfellow said.
BA operates one return flight a week between London and Luanda. The ban came after British authorities informed Angola's national carrier, TAAG, that it would not be allowed to fly into the United Kingdom. The European Union said last week that it was moving toward banning the Angolan carrier from EU skies, a decision that came on the same day that a TAAG jet crashed in northern Angola