Teams across the world are providing Rolls-Royce customers with the individual support they need to protect their aircraft engines in readiness for a return to the skies.
There are indications that stakeholders are considering a merger between Arik Air and Aero Contractors, both of which are under the management of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).
Ethiopian Airlines has partnered with Cainiao Smart Logistics Network to launch a special cold chain air freight for the transportation of temperature-controlled medicines from Shenzhen Airport, China's first medical cross-border cold chain facility.
Efforts to allow unmanned aircraft to fly safely in unsegregated airspace have taken a step forward with the aid of South African company S-Plane Automation.
Customs offers at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport arrested 21 Kenyans on November 26 travelling to the UAE accusing them of attempting to use fake Covid-free certificates.
Wrenelle Stander has today to stepped down as CEO of South Africa’s Comair, which operates low-cost airline kulula.com as well as British Airways domestically.
Africa is now steeling itself for a second wave of Covid-19 while it is still responding to the first wave. Aviation advisory service Osprey monitors the effect on different countries and today issue a stark analysis of the current situation.
The Worldwide Airport Slot Board (WASB), comprising Airports Council International (ACI World), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and the Worldwide Airport Coordinators Group (WWACG) released a joint recommendation for airport slot use relief for the northern summer 2021 season.
Astral Aviation, a member of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) and Pharma.Aero, has announced that it is ready to support the distribution of the recently discovered COVID-19 vaccines across its scheduled network of 15 Destinations within Africa and a further 50 destinations.
Airlink will reconnect Tanzania with South Africa when it launches its first scheduled passenger flights between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg on 01 December 2020.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments worldwide to support the development of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as a critical step to achieving its target to cut net emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050.
IATA has welcomed the publication of the Manual on Testing and Cross Border Risk Management Measures by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Speaking at a special online event organised by the African Union (AU) to commemorate the Yamoussoukro Decision, ICAO Secretary General Dr Fang Liu declared that the recovery of African air services should be encouraged through further liberalisation and intra-regional resilience, aided by ICAO’s COVID-19 response resources.
COVID-19 has been a tough and testing time for the commercial aviation industry. Over eight months down the line and embattled airlines in South Africa have only recently received news that international flights are once again allowed back into the country. Now airlines are beginning to consider to seize opportunities in the economic recovery and turn losses into lessons, said the IFS.
Production of Paramount Aerospace Industries’ ground-breaking AHRLAC is about to be ramped up as the company prepares to emerge from the final stages of South Africa’s business rescue process.
Algeria has reportedly signed a contract to purchase 14 Russian Su-57 fighters, becoming the first customer of the fifth-generation stealth jets outside Russia. Jay Menon reports.
Cameroon’s president has ordered that national airline, Camair-Co, should be prepared for privatisation. Alan Dron looks at how attractive the debt-laden carrier might be to external investors.
Qatar Airways will operate three weekly flights to Abuja, Nigeria via Lagos from 27 November 2020 becoming the sixth new destination announced by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.
The Mauritian national carrier is still facing an abyssal financial problem. Administrators say that there’s a lack of economic visibility due to the new wave of restrictions on international travel imposed by a good part of Europe and other primary markets of the airline.
