Tag: St Helena airport

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 20:12 UTC

  St Helena airport on track: runway 70% completed; grooving and sealing begins

  

  The government of the British Overseas Territory St Helena has given an update on the construction of the airport which is expected to become operational sometime in 2016, and which continues according to original plans.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  St. Helena prepares for airport opening with boutique hotel and South African airline

  

  Two South African companies, Mantis in the hotel business and Comair airline, will be playing a vital role in developing St Helena's economy through increased communications and the tourist industry, once the international airport is opened next February, according to the latest news from the British Overseas Territory in mid South Atlantic.

• Saturday, March 21st 2015 - 05:07 UTC

  St Helena names South African airline preferred bidder for when airport opens next year

  

  A South African airline operator has been named the favorite to provide an air service for St Helena when its first airport opens early in 2016. But Comair, which also operates budget flights as kulula.com, will only offer flights to Johannesburg in South Africa, despite strong calls for a direct service to Europe.

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 23:32 UTC

  St Elena's airport will receive its first airplane test landing next July

  

  The very first airplane landing on St Helena’s new airport is due to take place in July, seven months before the target date for its completion. St Elena is situated in the middle of the Atlantic, and besides being a volcanic island is world famous since Napoleon was kept under arrest by the British until his death.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 03:23 UTC

  Labour dispute stops the construction of the St Helena airport in mid-Atlantic

  

  South Africans working at the British Overseas Territory of St Helena airport have gone on strike, in what is thought to be the first industrial action on the island in half a century, according to the local news. It is understood they are in dispute over employment terms and conditions.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:20 UTC

  St Helena airport to open February 2016; on line survey to assess travel potential

  

  As from 2016 the British Overseas Territory of St Helena in the mid Atlantic will have regular flight connections when the island’s first airport opens which opens a magnificent opportunity for promoting tourism and for Saints living overseas to visit their homeland.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2012 - 13:15 UTC

  St Helena insists with close business links with the Falkland Islands

  

  Former Managing Director of the Falkland Island Development Corporation, Julian Morris, now Executive Officer of Economic Development on St Helena, has been caught up in a tight schedule of meetings during his visit over the past week, to encourage Falklands’ business investment in St Helena.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 06:12 UTC

  Planning for when the 2016 airport, St Helena after closer links with Faklands

  

  A top official from St Helena will be visiting the Falkland Islands next month to explore ways that the governments of the two British Overseas Territories can collaborate and looking ahead to when the mid Atlantic volcanic island will have an international airport.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 22:19 UTC

  Namibia will supply cement for St Helena 300m dollars airport in South Atlantic

  

  Namibian cement company Ohorongo cement has secured a three-year contract with construction firm Basil Read for the supply of cement for the building of a new airport on the British overseas territory of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, over 1900km from the Namibian coast.