Safe Air has started scheduled services to Dubai-Mogadishu-Nairobi, which will operate every Saturday. The first direct service will operate between Mombasa to Dubai.
Ethiopian Airlines and Airbus in partnership with Aviation Sans Frontieres and Pablo Horstmann Foundation have transported humanitarian goods onboard two new Airbus A350-900 aircraft delivered to Ethiopian on 6 November 2020.
The flagship carrier of the Republic of Seychelles has successfully resumed commercial passenger services to one of its most popular routes on the airline’s network, Johannesburg.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released September data for global air freight markets showing that air cargo demand, while strengthening, remains depressed compared to 2019 levels. However, African airlines saw demand increase by 9.7% year-on-year in September.
GE Aviation is offering a new health credential application, Health Application ID, for the aviation industry to address COVID-19 related safety concerns.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Airports Council International (ACI) have developed a new Global Airport Safety Professional (ASP) qualification programme to help airports improve ICAO compliance and support critical pandemic recovery activities being aligned through ICAO.
Paramount Labs, the research and innovation division of the Africa-based global aerospace and technology company, Paramount Group, in partnership with the South African Air Force (SAAF), today announced the successful completion of its newly launched robotics training programme by the first group of young students who enrolled as part of the ‘SAAF Eagles Robotics Club’.
The multi-award winning and largest cargo network operator in Africa, Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services, has today announced it is ready, with all the required capabilities, for the distribution of potential COVID-19 vaccine across Africa and the rest of the world.
Air Namibia has received another postponement of liquidation after the Namibian High Court re-slated the case until December 1 based on a legal technicality.
The cargo division of International Airlines Group (IAG) has today announced that it has partnered with IATA’s air cargo rates distribution platform, IATA Net Rates - recently launched for the South Africa market and shortly rolling out globally - to offer an additional platform which customers can use to do business with IAG Cargo.
Airbus has revealed MAVERIC (Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls) its “blended wing body” scale model technological demonstrator.
Comair’s business rescue process navigated past two important milestones this week as the investors secured the required credit approval from various lenders of debt funding, as well as approval from various regulators necessary for their investment in Comair to proceed.
Nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, NanoAvionics - which is working in collaboration with South Africa's Dragonfly Aerospace and CubeCom - has revealed the remaining three payloads of its D-2/AtlaCom-1 rideshare mission hosted on board its M6P 6U nanosatellite bus.
Gulfstream Aerospace has said the next-generation Gulfstream G500TM and Gulfstream G600TM have demonstrated additional range capabilities through real-time operations.
Paramount Aerospace Systems USA (PAS USA) - a subsidiary of Africa based Paramount Group - will expand its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services and training support for the Mirage F1 fighter fleet operated by the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, LLC (ATAC), as ATAC has been awarded new contracts to provide adversary air (ADAIR) pilot training to the US Air Force over the course of the next four and a half years.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and World Meteorological Organization have signed an agreement to increase and improve the automated reporting of meteorological data by commercial aircraft.
