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Oman’s new budget airline launches int’l flights

  Dubai / Emirates Business SalamAir, Oman’s first budget airline, expanded its network by introducing its first international destination, Dubai. The double daily service will operate from Muscat International Airport (MCT) to Dubai World Central (DWC) before moving to Dubai International Airport (DXB) is starting from March 26. SalamAir’s growing destination network was made possible with the arrival of the ...

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United-Avianca deal becomes target of lawsuit

  Bloomberg Avianca Holdings SA’s chairman and controlling shareholder, German Efromovich, is forcing the Colombian airline into a potential deal with United Continental Holdings Inc. that will hurt minority investors, according to a lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court. Kingsland Holdings, the second-biggest shareholder in Avianca, is suing the Bogota-based air carrier, Efromovich and Chicago-based United, saying they ...

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Vodafone Kenya unit faces proposals for breakup

  Bloomberg A study of Kenya’s telecommunications industry proposes breaking up Safaricom Ltd., the country’s biggest company, according to brokerage AIB Capital Ltd. The report compiled by Analysis Mason proposes “a raft of measures supposed to level the telecommunications playing ground and tame Safaricom,” AIB Chairman Linus Gitahi said in an opinion article published Wednesday in the Nairobi-based Daily Nation ...

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