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Fly Angola
Fly Angola (FLA), stylized FLУ AO Angola, is a privately owned airline based in the country of Angola, specifically at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in the nation's capital, Luanda. It is established in September 2018 by a "Portuguese agency" and "backed up" by Angolan investment firm Gestomobil. The airline flies to Angola's provincial capitals from its hub. Fleet As of June 2020, the airline only owns one Embraer EMB-145 LR registered D2-FDF filled with 50 standard economy class in a 1-2 configuration, with a second one planned to be ordered once the airline has secured its own Air Operator's Certificate. It is said that the motive behind the single-aircraft order is as a "trial." The airline was planning in late 2019 to buy a 30-seat Embraer EMB-120. The airline's services are performed by a local partner, Angolan airline AeroJet, which owns Fly Angola's AOC. Destinations Fly Angola operates domestic flights from Luanda to four major cities. COVID-19 pandemic Fly Ango ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatro De Fevereiro Airport
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport ( pt, Aeroporto Internacional 4 de Fevereiro, sw, Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Quatro de Fevereiro), is the main international airport of Angola. It is located in the southern part of the capital Luanda, situated in the Luanda Province. ''Quatro de Fevereiro'' means 4th of February, which is an important national holiday in Angola, marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961. In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted. History The construction of the airport began in 1951, in order to serve the capital of the former-Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola. It was inaugurated in 1954, by the Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes, which in his honor, the airport was named ''Aeroporto Presidente Craveiro Lopes'' (President Craveiro Lopes Airport). In August, September, and October 1975 the airport hosted tens of thousands of mostly white Portuguese Angolans fleeing to Lisbon (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubango Airport
Lubango Mukanka Airport ( pt, Aeroporto de Lubango) is an airport serving Lubango, the capital city of the Huíla Province in Angola. The Lubango non-directional beacon (Ident: SB) is located east-northeast of the Rwy 28 threshold. Airlines and destinations Military use The airport houses four Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft. Incidents and accidents * On 8 November 1983 a TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff. All 130 passengers and crew on board were killed. See also * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola Transport in Angola comprises: Roads Walking home.jpg, Walking home on EN 105. Tired are they.jpg, Donkey-drawn carts. Transportation Jingu.jpg, Three-wheeled motorcycles. The riches transportation.jpg, Trucks. Midd Town Luanda.jpg, Automobil ... References External linksOpenStreetMap - Lubango * * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurimo
Saurimo, formerly known as Henrique de Carvalho, is a city in Angola, capital of the Lunda Sul Province :''Lunda Sul Province is not to be confused with Luanda Sul, a satellite city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.'' Lunda Sul ("South Lunda") is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. It has an area of 77,637 km² and a 2014 census popula .... Saurimo has a population of 393,000 (2014). Population of the major cities in Angola The population has swollen as a result of migrants fleeing civil conflict. History Formerly the town was known as Henrique De Carvalho, after the Portuguese explorer who visited the region in 1884 and contacted the local, and historically powerful, Lunda people.Geography It is located in northeastern Angola at an elevation of above sea level. It is a garr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luena Airport
Luena Airport ( pt, Aeroporto de Luena) is an airport serving Luena, the capital of the Moxico Province in Angola. The Luena VOR-DME (Ident: VUE) and the Luena non-directional beacon (Ident: UE) are on the field. Airlines and destinations Facilities The airport has a small and modern terminal building built to replace and older terminal. The control tower is now located next the terminal (old tower was atop of the old terminal building. Hangars and other airport buildings are located next to the main terminal building. See also * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola Transport in Angola comprises: Roads Walking home.jpg, Walking home on EN 105. Tired are they.jpg, Donkey-drawn carts. Transportation Jingu.jpg, Three-wheeled motorcycles. The riches transportation.jpg, Trucks. Midd Town Luanda.jpg, Automobil ... References External linksOpenStreetMap - Luena [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moxico Province
Moxico (Portuguese spelling) or Moshiko (Bantu spelling) is the largest province of Angola. It has an area of , and covers 18% of the landmass of Angola. The province has a population of 758,568 (2014 census) and a population density of approximately 3.4 residents per km² (8.8/sq mi), making it one of the most sparsely populated areas of Angola. The population of the province is in flux; displaced residents have slowly returned to Moxico since the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002. The war left Moxico as one of the most landmine-contaminated places in the world. The governor of the province is Gonçalves Manuel Muandumba. Luena is the capital of the Moxico Province, and is located from the Angolan capital of Luanda. History Moxico Province was the scene of much guerrilla fighting during the Angolan Civil War. Its long border with Zambia at the east of the province was a base of operations for UNITA and MPLA. As a result, Moxico Province saw many raids by the military of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luena, Angola
Luena, formerly known as Luso, is a city and municipality in eastern Angola, administrative capital of Moxico Province. The municipality had a population of 357,413 in 2014. History The Angolan town is best known as the resting place of former UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who was shot and killed by Angolan government troops on February 22, 2002. Later on January 3, 2008, Savimbi's tomb at Luena Main Cemetery was vandalised and four members of the youth wing of the MPLA were charged and arrested. '''', January 23, 2008. Climate |
Quatro De Fevereiro International Airport
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport ( pt, Aeroporto Internacional 4 de Fevereiro, sw, Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Quatro de Fevereiro), is the main international airport of Angola. It is located in the southern part of the capital Luanda, situated in the Luanda Province. ''Quatro de Fevereiro'' means 4th of February, which is an important national holiday in Angola, marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961. In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted. History The construction of the airport began in 1951, in order to serve the capital of the former-Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola. It was inaugurated in 1954, by the Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes, which in his honor, the airport was named ''Aeroporto Presidente Craveiro Lopes'' (President Craveiro Lopes Airport). In August, September, and October 1975 the airport hosted tens of thousands of mostly white Portuguese Angolans fleeing to Lisbon (du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda Province
Luanda is a province of Angola. It covers an area of 18,835 km2, and had a population of 6,945,386 at the Census of 16 May 2014. The latest official estimate (for 2019) is 8,247,688.Instituto Nacional de Estatístiica, República de Angola. The city of Luanda is the capital of the province and Angola. It serves as the country's primary port, cultural and urban centre and occupies 44.8 square miles. History The original prewar Luanda Province grew in size during the 20th century due to the urbanization of Angola. It was divided into the provinces of Luanda and Bengo in 1980. The new reform of 2011 moved the municipalities Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama from Bengo to Luanda Province, so as the province has 3 neighboring ones instead of being surrounded by Bengo. The administrative reform significantly increased the land area of Luanda Province. It formerly had an area of and a reported population of 6,542,942 in 2014, before accounting for reorganization Despite this, the city o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil, with over 8.3 million inhabitants in 2020 (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally for Portugal. Luanda's population increased greatly from refugees fleeing the war, but its infrastructure was inadequate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundo Airport
Dundo Airport, or Camaquenzo I Airport , is an airport serving the city of Dundo, the capital of Lunda Norte Province in Angola. The Dundo (Ident: DU) non-directional beacon is located on the field. Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola Transport in Angola comprises: Roads Walking home.jpg, Walking home on EN 105. Tired are they.jpg, Donkey-drawn carts. Transportation Jingu.jpg, Three-wheeled motorcycles. The riches transportation.jpg, Trucks. Midd Town Luanda.jpg, Automobil ... References External links * * OpenStreetMap - Dundo Airports in Angola Dundo {{Angola-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunda Norte Province
Lunda Norte ( en, North Lunda) is a province of Angola. It has an area of 103,760 km² and a population of 862,566. Angola's first President, Agostino Neto, made Lucapa the provincial capital after independence, but the capital was later moved to Dundo. The province borders the Democratic Republic of Congo in the northeast and Lunda Sul in the south. The province is rich in gold and diamonds, but remains vastly underdeveloped and impoverished. UNITA used the money generated from the sale of diamonds to fund war efforts. Cuango River valley, the richest diamond area of Angola is located in the province. Mining is done by notable companies like DeBeers and Endiama. The Lunda province whose capital was Saurimo was created by the Portuguese colonial empire on July 13, 1895. It was divided into Lunda-Sul and Lunda-Norte subdivisions through a constitution act in 1978 by the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government. Iron and manganese mining are also importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundo
Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 177,604 (2014), now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. Established in the early part of the 20th century as a planned diamond mining community, Dundo has continued to grow, has its own airport and is now being superseded by a new city, New Dundo. The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by social anthropologist, Hermann Baumann. History The settlement of Dundo was founded in 1912 after the discovery of diamonds in the Cuango River valley, located in the north-eastern border of Angola where it today adjoins the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Formed as a planned community to support the burgeoning mining operations, Dundo grew after the private investor company, Diamang (formed in 1917) were given the diamond mining concession in the entire region of Lunda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
