Africa

Airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from COVID-19, this is according to new findings from SITA's 2021 Air Transport IT Insights.

Airlink CEO Rodger Foster has been admitted to the “Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul” (National Order of the Southern Cross), in the class of Commander.

The JF-17N Thunder fighter aircraft has now entered service with the Nigerian Air Force. Jon Lake looks at what this could mean for the future.

GKN Aerospace has been selected as a supplier on Gulfstream’s new Gulfstream G800 and Gulfstream G400 business jets.

The January 2022 edition of AFRAA Sky-Connect will host Barry Kashambo - ICAO regional director - Eastern and Southern African Office.

The first export cargo flight out of Kisumu International Airport in Kenya over the weekend carried fresh produce from the lake region.

Ethiopian Airlines Group has established a centre – said to be the first of its kind in Africa – to convert B-767-300 ER passenger aircraft to dedicated freighter services in a partnership agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

Tough business decisions often have to be made on flights. For Phyl Durdey, founder of Flightline Training Services, there was one he got “absolutely right”.

Air Mauritius is resuming its passenger commercial flights from Johannesburg as from Sunday 9 January 2022.

Ethiopian Airlines plans to be back in the air with the Boeing 737 Max on February 1 just short of three years since the fatal accident that led to the global grounding of the type.

Having ordered Africa’s largest batch of Cessna Grand Caravans, Botswana’s Mack Air is ready for a post-pandemic upswing in traffic.

Thabile Mathe has joined ACI Africa as director for facilitation, technology and innovation, on secondment from Airports Company South Africa (ACSA).

Moment has signed an agreement with Air Côte d'Ivoire to provide a premium cabin experience, relying on the deployment of the portable entertainment system (W-IFE), Flymingo Box.

EgyptAir Training Academy (ETA) has renewed its approval of training Sudanese pilots, cabin crew, engineers and dispatchers at ETA premises.

A wholly-owned Airbus subsidiary, Airbus Atlantic, a global player in the aerostructures field, was officially established on 1st January 2022.

Emirates has said it progressed in its recovery path in 2021, rebuilding its passenger network to 128 cities by December including a new route to Miami launched in July.

A further demonstration of Africa’s position in the vanguard of new-technology aerial solutions has come with plans for an urban air mobility scheme in Kenya.

Ghana’s Ministry of Defence has suspended negotiations with Czech aircraft builder Aero Vodochody for the acquisition of six L-39 NG light attack/trainer aircraft while a rival US bid was evaluated.

The final Newsround on the year focuses on the future with CFM chief executive Gael Méheust giving his outlook for the airline world in 2022.

OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, has confirmed its successful deployment of 36 satellites by Arianespace from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Uncertainty surrounds the future of Cabo Verde Airlines after the African archipelago’s government decided to renationalise the carrier.

Boeing has ordered 19 767 Freighters from UPS highlighting the 767 Freighter's operational efficiency and payload capability to serve its global customers.

Ethiopian Airlines has received IATA’s Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) certification as an airline and ground handling in December 2021.

IATA has clarified that the aircraft cabin remains a very low risk environment for contracting COVID-19.

Kenya Airways and ITA Airways, Italy’s new flag carrier, have announced a codeshare agreement.