Tag: St Helena Island

• 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.

• Sunday, January 31st 2016 - 12:22 UTC

  St. Helena government readies Population & housing census on 7 February

  

  St Helena Government is preparing for a Population and Housing Census on Sunday, 7th February 2016. The Census will capture the essential information on the pre-air access characteristics of the Island population to assist with the development of services such as Health, Education and Housing.

• Saturday, January 30th 2016 - 12:52 UTC

  Ginny Ferson appointed to St Helena to oversee implementation of Wass Report.

  

  The Foreign Office can confirm that Ms Ginny Ferson has been appointed to British Overseas Territory St Helena, as UK Government Special Representative: Wass Inquiry Implementation. This is part of the UK Government’s commitment to implementing the Wass report’s recommendations.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 07:32 UTC

  New governor for St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

  

  Lisa Phillips is to succeed Mark Capes as Governor of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in April 2016.

• 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.