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TAP to resume flights to Bissau

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    Portugal’s state-owned airline, TAP, has announced a planned resumption of flights to Guinea Bissau by the end of June, a TAP spokesman told Lusa in Lisbon at the weekend. The flights, suspended at the outbreak of Guinea Bissau’s military rebellion in June 1998, will be direct from Lisbon. Before the rebellion TAP flew to Bissau with a stopover in Dakar, Senegal. In its report for the 18-31 May period, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had reported that the continued closure of the airport to commercial traffic had prevented many aid workers from entering the country since there were not enough seats available on twice-weekly UN flights. In its following report, covering 1-15 June, OCHA said international flights might resume on 23 June from Cape Verde with planes landing in the daytime. OCHA said a Portugese mission that went to Bissau on 1-4 June concluded that the airport might be ready to operate normally by the end of June.

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