Africa

EASA and IATA have announced the conclusions of a workshop jointly hosted at EASA’s headquarters to combat incidents of GNSS spoofing and jamming.

IATA has announced that RwandAir has become the latest signatory in Africa to the IATA Safety Leadership Charter.

Safran Aircraft Engines and France’s national aerospace research agency ONERA have begun first wind tunnel tests with the ECOENGInE, a 1:5 scale demonstrator of the future Open Fan.

IATA and ICAO have extended their long-standing cooperation on setting and implementing global standards for the safe carriage of dangerous goods by air.

Airlink is to reinstate direct flights between Durban and Bloemforntein from 26 February, 2024.

Aerogility has entered a five-year enterprise-wide contract with Rolls-Royce to supply its AI-based enterprise digital twin solution.

IATA has released data for November 2023 air travel performance indicating that air travel demand topped 99% of 2019 levels.

Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services has commenced a freighter service to Casablanca, Morocco as of today, January 09, 2024.

IATA has released data for November 2023 global air cargo markets indicating the strongest year-on-year growth in roughly two years.

Emirates is celebrating 20 years of service in Ghana. Its inaugural flight was in January 2004 at Kotoka International Airport using an A330-200 aircraft.

Astral Aviation has entered into a Global Sales Partnership Agreement (GSP)Take Off Aviation in South Africa.

Network Airline Services has been appointed General Sales and Services Agent (GSSA) for Air Mauritius in Denmark which became effective from August 1, 2023.

Gulf carriers featured high in the rankings for top on-time performers among the world’s airlines in tables published by Cirium today.

SunExpress on how it prepared for maintenance of Boeing 737-800s damp-leased to South African Airways.

RwandAir and its partner, Qatar Airways, believe that the African airline’s new cargo hub will help improve trade throughout the continent.

Qatar Airways has announced its 2024 network expansion with new destinations as well as resumptions, bookable ahead of the New Year.

The Cape Winelands’ Airport in South Africa is firming up its vision for the future …. and its vision is big and bold. The emerging ‘new’ airport sees itself as a key alternate airport for the Western Cape.

Emirates has celebrated the tenth anniversary of its daily A380 service to Mauritius.

Ethiopian Airlines has announced a landmark USD $450 million loan agreement that will finance five new Boeing aircraft: three Boeing 737-8 and two Boeing 777F (Cargo).

Etihad Airways and Maldivian have signed a strategic bilateral interline partnership, unlocking access to 16 dream holiday destinations in the Maldives beyond the main island of Malé.

Angola’s flag carrier TAAG may gone into the black for the first time in its history in 2022, but it is struggling to expand and update its fleet, Eduardo Fairen Soria, chief executive of TAAG Angola Airlines told African Aerospace on the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Istanbul in early June.

Deutsche Aircraft has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with an undisclosed customer for the purchase of up to four state-of-the-art D328eco aircraft.

The Airbus A220 – previously known as the Bombardier CSeries – is now making an impact and has African airlines in its sights.

Idemia has been selected by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) to implement its Passenger Flow Facilitation (PFF) solution in nine South African airports.

Technology company SITA has researched the shifting trends that have emerged in the last year and the updated innovation outlook for the next decade.