Africa

The carrier returned to two African capitals over the weekend.

Stelia Aerospace, a producer of premium passenger seats, and AERQ, a provider for digital cabin solutions, are collaborating to integrate AERQ’s OLED based Cabin Digital Signage displays for airlines.

Gulfstream Aerospace is investing more than $55 million and hiring for more than 200 new positions at its Wisconsin facility to meet customer demand and growth in its fleet.

Fahari Aviation, a subsidiary Kenya Airways, has today launched the first drone enclosure facility in Kenya.

IATA has said that air travel resumed its strong recovery trend in April, despite the war in Ukraine and travel restrictions in China. This was driven primarily by international demand.

Etihad Cargo will provide additional capacity to key destinations in the summer months across Asia, Africa and Europe.

SITA has signed an exclusive agreement with UKi Media & Events to trace and repatriate lost items at this year’s Passenger Terminal Expo, being held in Paris from 15-17 June.

IATA has released April 2022 data for global air cargo markets showing a drop in demand and contraction in capacity.

Vision-Box has unveiled its latest solution built upon a new generation of biometric technology set to transform the travel experience: Seamless Kiosk - The New Generation of Biometric Technology.

Satair, an Airbus Services company, has created a “one stop shop” for aircraft Ground Support Equipment and Tools, gathering 70,000 part numbers from 1,600 original equipment manufacturers across the globe.

UAS International Trip Support (UAS) honoured the winners of its Outstanding Suppliers Awards 2020-2021 at a ceremony during the recent EBACE Show in Geneva.

Specialist regional aircraft lessor TrueNoord has successfully remarketed two Bombardier CRJ900 ER NextGen aircraft to South African operator CemAir.

Industry leaders from BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce are among the pioneers of change from across the aerospace sector to be announced as the first speakers for the Aerospace Global Forum (AGF).

The Rolls-Royce has said its Pearl 10X engine development programme is making good progress and has successfully cumulated more than 1,000 testing hours, both on the Advance 2 demonstrator and the Pearl 10X engine configuration.

Kenya’s National carrier, Kenya Airways has demonstrated the future of sustainable aviation by flying an environmentally sustainable B787-800 Dreamliner flight from Nairobi to Amsterdam.

Angola’s TAAG has signed an ACMI agreement with HiFly reinforcing its operation with an Airbus A330 for three months.

South African airline Comair had all its aircraft grounded on Sunday by South Africa's civil aviation regulator over unresolved safety issues.

Emirates and Airlink have officially activated their codeshare partnership.

South Africa’s Comair has announced that it to suspend all British Airways (operated by Comair) and kulula.com flights from Tuesday 31 May pending successfully securing additional funding.

Ethiopian Airlines has commenced thrice-weekly passenger service to Washington DC via Lomé, Togo as of 01 June 2022.

IATA has reported that the IATA Ground Operations Manual (IGOM) Portal and IATA's Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) are successfully driving greater standardisation of ground handling processes around the world.

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has made the decision to suspend RwandAir flights following diplomatic tensions.

Ethiopian Airlines is set to start thrice weekly operations to Chennai, India as of July 2, 2022.

Helicopters are being used to fight both poaching and car hijacking in South Africa.

Start-up airline ValueJet has taken delivery of its first two aircraft - CRJ900 jets.