Africa

The £1 million refit is a continuation of the refurbishment started in 2006, and has seen all of the TAG management offices moved out of the terminal and into a separate building.

Proflight Zambia has completed the first step towards gaining the top safety accreditation standard in the international aviation industry.

fastjet operations in Tanzania carried a total of 56,808 passengers and achieved a load factor of 70%. This represents an increase of 66% in the number of passengers carried and a 3% increase in the load factor, compared with the same month last year.

Air Seychelles and Air France have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), heralding a new era of commercial cooperation between the two carriers.

SITA has announced that CEO Francesco Violante will step down in the second half of 2016 after 13 years in the position.

The Pratt & Whitney PurePower Engine for Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft has successfully complete its first flight.

Airlines and aviation stakeholders will meet in Johannesburg from 28 – 30 April 2015 at the 4th Annual Aviation Stakeholders Convention.

Since 7 April 2015, Air France's new travel cabins have been serving Douala (Cameroon) and Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), the first African destinations to benefit from these cabins.

AJW Aviation has appointed experienced aviation industry specialist Oliver Stratford as Sales Manager - Southern Africa.

Gogo has introduced the ATG 1000 – a new connectivity system particularly well-suited for light jets, turboprops and owner-flown aircraft.

SITA today announced the creation of a new corporate social responsibility initiative - the SITA Air Transport Community Foundation - initiated by the 34-member SITA Council to work with charities in delivering educational programmes and technology to communities in need and focusing initially on Africa, providing computer labs at schools in Ethiopia and Uganda, and educational grants at a university in South Africa.

Etihad Airways has increased its service between Abu Dhabi and Seychelles from four flights per week to daily to give guests more choice and greater flexibility when travelling to and from Seychelles.

Qatar Airways launched its second new destination of the year, touching down in the Spice Island of Zanzibar this week. Zanzibar is the airline's third route in Tanzania, following Dar-es-Salaam and Kilimanjaro.

Madagascar's national airline places an order for three ATR 72-600s and introduces two more on lease.

Ethiopian Airlines is offering a special promotion to all passengers travelling to Accra, Ghana who are participating in the Millennium Marathon which takes place on September 6.

AviAssist has launched the 'Friends of the AviAssist Foundation': a charitable network for the good of the aviation safety in Africa. Friends of AviAssist will support the work of the AviAssist Foundation in promoting professionalism in African aviation safety that AviAssist has been carrying out for 20 years.

On the occasion of the CEO of Air Algérie, Boultif Mohamed Salah, visiting Toulouse today, the airline has received the first of its three A330-200s with new cabins.

Proflight Zambia's new 50-seater jet aircraft touched down at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport this week.

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has welcomed Nairobi, Kenya-based, Jambojet to the family of Q400 aircraft customers and operators following Jambojet's launch of service with a Q400 turboprop chartered from DAC Aviation.

Ethiopian Airlines has announced the commencement of mobile payment for online ticket purchase in Ethiopia. The option was made possible with the cooperation of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) and Flocash an integration system provider.

AviaSolutions, a GE Capital Aviation Services company , has completed a project for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to arrange air service to the island of St. Helena beginning in 2016.

An exciting new entrant to the business aviation sector, the HondaJet has received provisional type certification (PTC) from the United States FAA.

Jet Aviation has developed European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS II) version 7.1 upgrade.

ECAir, Equatorial Congo Airlines is continuing to expand its network.

Saab, through its local South African company, Saab Grintek Defence (Pty) Ltd has received follow-on orders from Hindustan Aeronautic Limited (HAL), India, for serial production of an integrated electronic warfare self-protection system for installation on the Indian Army's and Air Force's Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv. The orders have a total value of approximately R940million.