Kenya Airways celebrated the delivery and flyaway today of the Kenyan flag carrier's first 787 Dreamliner. The airplane departed Paine Field in Everett, Washington State, for a 7,800 nautical mile (14,456 km) nonstop flight to Kenya Airways' home base in Nairobi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
While global passenger demand was up 5.4% in Feb 2014 vs Feb 2013, in comparison, Africa was the slowest growing region with an increase of 0.1%, according to IATA's latest passenger traffic reports.
fastjet has announced that it has signed an agreement with Lusaka-based regional airline Proflight Zambia, enabling passengers of both airlines to travel easily between 15 destinations across Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania served by the two carriers.
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable Airline in Africa, is pleased to announce the commencement of daily services to Shanghai, China as of 29 March 2014. Ethiopian operates the Shanghai flight using its B787 Dreamliner with 24 Cloud Nine Business Class and 246 Economy Class seats.
South Africa's Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has contracted Denel Aviation to manage and operate its helicopter service following a competitive tender process.
Emirates is set to expand its presence in Africa's most populous country Nigeria, with the start of a daily linked service to Abuja and Kano from 1 August 2014.
The start-up inaugurated operations on the morning of April 1, 2014 initially offering up to six daily rotations between Nairobi and Mombasa, a double daily link between the capital and Kisumu and a ten times weekly service between Nairobi and Eldoret.
Aviation accident rates in Africa were almost halved last year in the latest set of figures to be released by IATA – the industry body for the world's airlines.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released 2013 commercial aviation safety performance, showing Africa's accident rate for all aircraft types improving by nearly 50%.
The Air Mauritius Board of Directors met on March 27, 2014 and has approved the payment of 50 cents per share for the financial year 2013/14 ending the 31st of March 2014.
Business aviation in Nigeria has been hit by major scandal regarding the alleged improper use of business jets by the country's petroleum minister and the governor of one of the country's largest states.
AviAssist has successfully completed is third Pan-African safety seminar "2Gether 4Safety" with an event in Entebbe, Uganda designed to help develop safer operations for African aviation.
John Cameron has joined FlightSafety International as regional director, business development, commercial simulation to support FlightSafety's flight simulator sales efforts in Africa.
United Aviation Services (UAS), a provider of international trip support services for flight operators, VIP and government officials, launched a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria today.
Gulfstream Aerospace super mid-size G280 added more city-pair records to its already impressive list. In less than a month's time, the G280 set six new records, bringing the aircraft's total speed records to 45.
The airline, backed by businessman Ovidiu Tender, who runs a group of geological, oil and gas exploration and tourism companies, recently revealed plans to launch its own scheduled operations in Romania under the Fly Romania operational brand and this African contract further diversifies and expands its product offering.
Romanian MRO specialist Aerostar has won a contract from Tanzanian-based low-cost carrier Fastjet to provide the heavy maintenance of two of the airline's fleet of three Airbus A319 airliners.
A series of flights to and around Africa led to a series of world speed reords for the Gulfstream G280 business jet as it added six city-pair records In less than a month.
Best Fly Maintenance is to open a new part 145 Line Station at Luanda International Airport in the fourth quarter of 2014 to offer high quality maintenance services.
