{"id":38039,"date":"2018-08-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-italy-sign-air-service-agreement\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:32:34","slug":"rwanda-italy-sign-air-service-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-italy-sign-air-service-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Italy sign air service agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s Minister of Infrastructure, Amb. Claver Gatete and Italian Ambassador Domenico Fornara signed the agreement liberalizing commercial flights and airports between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Gatete said the air services agreement would ease future cooperation in trade, tourism and development between both countries. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will help us boost trade, economy, tourism and development between our countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Amb. Fornara, the deal allows RwandAir to land at all Italy\u2019s airports and vice-versa. He further observed that the move presents an opportunity to foster economic development through air transport.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, RwandAir CEO, Yvonne Makolo said that the move was part of the National Carrier&#8217;s Five-year Objectives, of establishing cooperation in Air services with as many countries as possible. <\/p>\n<p>RwandAir currently serves 26 destinations across East, Central, West and Southern Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia; with a fleet of 12 aircraft, namely; one Airbus A330 \u2013 300, one Airbus A330 \u2013 200, four Boeing 737-800NG, two Bombardier Q-400 Next Gen, Two Bombardier CRJ-900 Next Gen  and two Boeing 737-700NG.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan carrier also introduced flights to Abidjan, Libreville and Brazzaville from its Cotonou hub. It also flies to Abuja and Cape Town. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26804 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton109533-f5f47_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Infrastructure, Amb. Claver Gatete and Italian Ambassador Domenico Fornara signed the agreement liberalizing commercial flights and airports between the two countries.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26803 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_dsc0227-f09a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda and Italy have today, Monday, signed a Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) that allows Rwandan flag carrier RwandAir to land at all Italy&#8217;s airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}