Africa

Air Austral and Unilode Aviation Solutions, which deals with outsourced unit load device (ULD) management, repair and digital services, have extended their ULD management partnership until 2026.

Panasonic Avionics has launched a wide range of new features for its sought-after in-flight map platform, Arc.

Zela Aviation has entered a cooperation agreement with the Egyptian based low cost and charter airline FlyEgypt.

Air Tanzania’s revival under government ownership since 2016 was thrown off course by the pandemic but has not caused managing director and chief executive, Ladislaus Matindi, to waver from making it a “proper airline again”.

Ethiopian Airlines will add Zürich to its global network, with thrice weekly flights.

The fourth edition of the Aviators Africa Conference and Tower Awards conference kicks-off today in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Joao Carlos Po Jorge has been elected the new Chairperson and Elmar Conradie as deputy chairperson of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa’s (AASA). They will serve for the next 12 months.

ACC Aviation, with has offices in the Middle East, is introducing a carbon offsetting programme in collaboration with Positive Planet.

Kenya’s Fahari Aviation has signed a letter of intent to buy 40 electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

Ethiopian Airlines is increasing its services from Addis Ababa to Johannesburg to three times a day.

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced a new authorised warranty facility agreement with ExecuJet Aviation Nigeria (EJAN) in Lagos.

Ethiopian MRO is developing its passenger-to-freight conversion capabilities.

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced the two fully outfitted Gulfstream G700 production test aircraft will embark on an extensive world tour.

OneWeb and Panasonic Avionics will closely partner to enable Panasonic Avionics to market, sell, and support OneWeb’s high-speed, low-latency LEO in-flight broadband services to commercial airlines worldwide.

Menzies Aviation, the global aviation logistics specialist, has announced that Airports Company South Africa has awarded it with a five-year license to provide ground handling services at nine airports across South Africa.

Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first 787 Dreamliner delivery to the African carrier.

Klatt Works, manufacturer of ‘SAVED’ a fully integrated augmented reality display inside a commercial aircraft crew oxygen mask, and AMETEK Ameron have entered a new partnership.

Comlux Completion has been successfully approved by Airbus ACJ to provide maintenance services on the latest member of the ACJ Family, the ACJ TwoTwenty.

This is up 15% in both deliveries and expenditures from the same 10-year forecast a year ago.

The new direct flights will operate four times a week, an increase from the airline’s current indirect thrice-weekly operation.

Ethiopian Airlines Group has completed a passenger to freighter conversion of one of its three B767 aircraft.

IATA has announced passenger data for August 2022 showing continued momentum in the air travel recovery.

The Secretary General of AFRAA, Abdérahmane Berthé has met Ethiopian Airlines Group Chief Executive Officer, Mesfin Tasew Bekele, for discussions in Ethiopia.

AFRAA has announced airline performance updates since the pandemic.

Cape Town’s International Airport was in crisis after a tanker carrying jet fuel for the airport was delayed by severe weather.