Due to Governmental sanctions directly affecting IATA that prevent us from having financial dealings with Libya, we must suspend all settlement services with Libyan Airlines and Afriquiyah Airways effective immediately.
Therefore IATA has suspended Libyan Airlines (LN-148) and Afriqiyah Airways (8U-546) from all BSPs.
BSP Travel Agents should:
Stop immediately all ticketing and refund transactions through the GDSs and BSPlink and continue to remit funds to the BSP.
As soon as we have more information, we will communicate this to you.

Email from IATA

A commercial passenger plane has crashed in Libya, killing all 105 people on board, airport officials say.

The Afriqiyah Airways flight from Johannesburg had been due to land at 0610 local (0410 GMT), they said. The plane crashed close to the airport.

The 94 passengers on board the Airbus 330 are believed to be of various nationalities, including British and South African.

The 11 crew were all thought to be Libyan nationals, an employee said.

The plane had been due to go on to Heathrow airport after stopping in Tripoli.

The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says it was not clear whether the plane was on the runway when it crashed, but she says that people she spoke to at the airport said they could not see the plane.

Ambulances have been going back and forth to the airport, our correspondent says.

She adds that the weather has been sunny and clear over the past few days

Yup these are inclusive fares, naturally if you book through a travel agent there would be associated booking fees. These fares are brilliant. Have a look at the London routing for example the taxes on BA for a London ticket return – direct are R3393! Ok so we now have an airline that can in fact fly almost cheaper to London than what another airline charges on taxes!

What a crazy world of travel.

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