Tag: St Helena airport

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 22:42 UTC

  First commercial airliner lands in St Helena: new chapter of opportunities for the BOT island in mid Atlantic

  

  The British Overseas Territory St Helena in mid Atlantic made history on Monday as the first large passenger jet aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 (ZS-ZWG), touched down at St Helena’s new Airport shortly after 12.00 noon. This is the actual Boeing aircraft which will serve the St Helena/Johannesburg rout, according to a release from the local government.

• Friday, April 15th 2016 - 05:04 UTC

  St Helena reaches to the world: 21 May airport official opening with presence of Prince Edward

  

  The Government of St Helena has announced that the official opening of the island's new airport is set to take place on 21 May 2016, in the presence of HRH The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. For the British Overseas Territory island in mid Atlantic and with an only monthly sea link, the airport means a dream come true, and both the St Helena and UK governments hope that this will lead to eventual financial self-sustainability.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 09:11 UTC

  First jet aircraft lands at St Helena recently finished airport

  

  Great day of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena: the first jet aircraft landed at the recently concluded airport in the island located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The business jet was chartered by Air Safety Support International (ASSI) to bring its team of five personnel to St Helena to assess St Helena Airport.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 07:58 UTC

  South Africa's Comair ready to operate from St Helena's airport with a Boeing 737/800

  

  South African airline Comair will operate the Boeing 737-800, configured to seat about 120 passengers, on the route from the St Helena Island’s airport to Johannesburg. A British Overseas Territory, St Helena is a remote South Atlantic island, where French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was once exiled and died after his defeat at Waterloo.

• Saturday, January 16th 2016 - 10:05 UTC

  St Helena and its new airport get ready for tourism take-off

  

  The Guardian Weekly has published a piece on prospects for St Helena with the opening of its international airport, most probably next May, and which is expected to turn the mid Atlantic's island economy, particularly with tourism, since none less that Napoleon Bonaparte spent his last years until his death, almost two centuries ago.

• Monday, November 16th 2015 - 06:49 UTC

  St Helena airport official opening has been delayed from February to May 2016

  

  The opening of St Helena Airport in the south Atlantic Ocean has been delayed from February 2016 to May 2016 to allow for additional refinement of the aerodrome's infrastructure.

• Monday, October 5th 2015 - 08:16 UTC

  St Helena airport certification exercises planned for this month and November

  

  British Overseas Territory St Helena is closer to the official opening of its airport following a series of calibration flights by the first aircraft to successfully land and takeoff from the mid Atlantic island.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

  History made as first ever plane lands at St Helena: day to remember 09/15/2015

  

  History was made on St Helena at 13.50hrs GMT Tuesday 15 September 2015, as a Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft arrived from Angola and touched down at St Helena’s new Airport, prior to conducting a series of calibration flights.

• Saturday, September 12th 2015 - 11:27 UTC

  First landing ever in St Helena airport scheduled for next week as part of calibration flights

  

  A historic milestone is set to be reached next week when a Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft is due to land at the new St Helena Airport to carry out a series of calibration flights. This will be the first aircraft to land on St Helena, the island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  On St Helena Day, 21 May 2016, begins air link of the island with South Africa

  

  British Overseas Territory St Helena only link with the outside world, currently by sea, will be coming to an end in May 2016, when the proposed official opening of the airport which is being built by South African contractors, will be taking place, according to the 12 May meeting of the island's Executive Council.