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Kambi Travel International, a full service
travel and tourism company based in the
Washington Metropolitan Area has been
appointed Airline Consolidator for Trans
Atlantic Airlines (TAA). This newly formed
airline carrier is the only scheduled
direct airline carrier to West Africa from
JFK International Airport in New York and
Dulles International Airport in
Washington, D.C. to Lagos, Nigeria;
Banjul, The Gambia; Freetown, Sierra
Leone; and Dakar, Senegal. According to
the Chairman and CEO of Trans Atlantic
Airlines, Chief I.J.O. Njoku, a Nigerian
national and New York-based entrepreneur
with a strong track record in real estate
development, "This new airline service
will be highly focused on the expansion of
U.S.-Africa market requirements and
promises to restore the comfort,
reliability and affordability of traveling
to West Africa as it was meant to be.
Passengers to West Africa currently have
to connect through Europe with 7-8 hours
layover, coupled with higher ticket costs.
Trans Atlantic Airlines has shortened the
amount of time in half required to fly to
West Africa with direct routes and
superior services for its customers.
Overall, Trans Atlantic Airlines promises
no delays, no hassles, no transit visas,
and most importantly, no luggage will be
left behind." Trans Atlantic
Airlines will operate from New York twice
weekly to Lagos via Banjul and once a week
to Lagos via Freetown. The JFK
International Airport (New York) service
will commence on October 30, 2003. Trans
Atlantic Airlines will operate once a week
from Washington, D.C. to Lagos via Dakar
as well as once a week to Lagos via
Freetown. The Dulles International Airport
(Washington, D.C.) service is scheduled to
commence on December 8, 2003. In addition,
Trans Atlantic Airlines will be operating
from Houston International Airport
directly to Port Harcourt in Nigeria via
Banjul. This service is expected to
commence in December 2003. Chief Njoku has
successfully assembled a senior management
team for the airline carrier with more
than 160 combined years of proven
expertise and experience in the airline
industry to include SAS, World Airways,
Gulf Air, Air India and Kuwait Airways.
Trans Atlantic Airlines will operate a
state-of-the-art Airbus A330-300 wide body
aircraft with forty-two reclining flat bed
seats and 236 premium economy seats with
ample luggage space to truly satisfy the
needs of the leisure traveler and the
business traveler as well as the ethnic
traveler to the above-mentioned West
African destinations. Trans Atlantic
Airlines is an Airlines Reporting
Corporation (ARC) participant as well as a
member airline of the International
Airlines Travel Association (IATA). Trans
Atlantic Airlines" airline industry code
is KC/448 and its schedules and fares are
now available in Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan
and Amadeus. For more information
about Trans Atlantic Airlines, please
contact Kambi Travel International
directly at: Tel: (301) 925-9012; Fax:
(301) 925-9211/Toll Free: 1-800-220-2192;
E-Mail: HYPERLINK "mailto
info@kambi.com
or
kambitravel@aol.com
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Also, visit Kambi Travel
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