Africa

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

AFRAA has announced airline performance updates since the pandemic.

Walid El Khafif has been named as the new chairman & CEO of the EgyptAir Maintenance and Engineering company – part of the EgyptAir Group.

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

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

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

The EgyptAir Group is set to formally announce a new Chairman and CEO this week.

Governments meeting at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly in Montreal have adopted a goal of net-zero carbon emissions for international flights by 2050.

Fokker Services Group, the aviation aftermarket company, is now building a wide-body aircraft hangar in close cooperation with Gaptek, a leader in modular architecture.

In this special Insight programme, brought to you with the support of Rolls-Royce we look back to the recent Aviation Africa summit in Rwanda, where Akbar Al Baker, the dynamic and sometimes controversial, chief executive of the Qatar Airways Group led the A-list of industry speakers.

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) in partnership with the leading African marketing intelligence provider – Milanamos has launched a dedicated Aviation Route Intelligence Portal.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced passenger data for August 2022 showing continued momentum in the air travel recovery.

The Inaugural African Airforce Forum will be highlighting aviation in Low intensity conflicts and will be hosted by the Senegal Air Force.

ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA) and Solenta Aviation (Solenta), a South Africa-based provider in aviation services, have expanded their existing relationship with DHL Express.

TAG Maintenance Services, an Maintenance Repair and Overhaul provider, will be rebranded Dassault Aviation Business Services (DABS).

Tecnam has introduced the new P2012 STOL dedicated to Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) operations, specifically designed to operate across the most demanding commercial airports in the world.