{"id":54227,"date":"2022-12-08T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.bwiza.com\/2022\/12\/08\/rwandair-faces-blames-amid-flights-cancellation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:06:41","slug":"rwandair-faces-blames-amid-flights-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bwiza.com\/?p=54227","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir faces blames amid flights cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national carrier, RwandAir, has apologised to its customers for flight cancellations attributed to technical issues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VK_fdDoiRJw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The development comes in the wake of complaints, especially on social media platforms, with some people citing flight cancellations for some days now.<\/p>\n<p>The airline was also blamed for late communications.<\/p>\n<p>One Batya Blankers, a twitter user, wrote: \u201cRwandAir has become unreliable. I had five visitors coming in and out of Rwanda in the last 10 days for business. All flights were delayed or canceled. We cannot rely on RwandAir anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on December 7, RwandAir said \u201cthe recent disruptions were caused by technical issues affecting our aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This has led us to making a number of flight cancellations and rescheduling a number of RwandAir services. We are reaching out to affected passengers to offer alternative flight options,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>RwandAir, which two months ago won three major accolades \u2013 including for the \u2018Best Airline Staff in Africa; \u2018Best Cabin Crew in Africa; and \u2018Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness in Africa\u2019 \u2013 has in recent years widened its flight network, launching its 29th destination (to London Heathrow Airport) just last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national carrier, RwandAir, has apologised to its customers for flight cancellations attributed to technical issues. The development comes in the wake of complaints, especially on social media platforms, with some people citing flight cancellations for some days now. The airline was also blamed for late communications. One Batya Blankers, a twitter user, wrote: \u201cRwandAir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[464],"class_list":["post-54227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","tag-in-slide-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RwandAir faces blames amid flights cancellation - BWIZA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bwiza.com\/?p=54227\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RwandAir faces blames amid flights cancellation - BWIZA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The national carrier, RwandAir, has apologised to its customers for flight cancellations attributed to technical issues. 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