The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its 2022 Safety Report for global aviation. The report showed a reduction in the number of fatal accidents and the fatality risk, compared to 2021 and to the five year average (2018-2022). Report highlights include: “Accidents are rare in aviation. There were five fatal accidents among 32.2 million…
Tag: Africa
Kenya Airways Cargo Celebrates 1st Year of its successful implementation of ‘nGen’ Integrated Cargo Management System
Kenya Airways Cargo is celebrating the first anniversary of its successful implementation of Cargo Flash Infotech’s next-generation ‘nGen’ Integrated Cargo Management System (ICMS). This new system replaced their divergent legacy systems with a single, highly scalable, secure nGen ICMS. This combined system includes Cargo Reservation System (RES), Cargo Revenue Accounting (CRA)System, Cargo Handling and Warehouse…
First Aerospace African Forum Held in Morocco
The first Aerospace Africa Forum under the theme Sustainable Mobility was held in Casablanca, Morocco last week to discuss challenges facing the industry including recovery of air transport in a post covid world. As part of the CEOs round tables, Abdelhamid Addou, CEO of Royal Air Maroc, Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, Yvonne Makolo, CEO of…
Etihad Cargo signs MoU with Astral Aviation to expand African network
Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Airways, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Astral Aviation Ltd to expand the partnership between the two parties and enhance the cooperation between Abu Dhabi and Nairobi, further growing Etihad Cargo’s reach into the African market. Through the comprehensive MoU, Etihad Cargo’s customers will…
South Africa’s Safair, Durban Airport Lead in On-Time Performance Across MENA Region – OAG
South Africa’s Safair has been ranked the top on-time airline for the Middle East and Africa by aviation analytics firm OAG in the just released Punctuality League 2023 report with a score of 95.30% an improvement from 94.40% in 2019. Remarkably the airline operated 47% more flights in 2022 than in 2019 according to the…
Air Cargo Demand Softens in November – IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for November 2022 global air cargo markets showing that demand softened as economic headwinds persist. Global demand, measured in cargo tonne-kilometers (CTKs*), fell 13.7% compared to November 2021 (-14.2% for international operations). Capacity (measured in available cargo tonne-kilometers, ACTK) was 1.9% below November 2021. This was the…
Passenger Recovery Continues in November – IATA
Total traffic in November 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 41.3% compared to November 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 75.3% of November 2019 levels.International traffic rose 85.2% versus November 2021. The Asia-Pacific continued to report the strongest year-over-year results with all regions showing improvement compared to the prior year. November 2022 international RPKs…
ASECNA, Indra to Enhance Landing Safety within 17 African Airports
Indra has been awarded a major contract for the supply and installation of air navigation systems in Africa for 15 million euros. The company will deliver its Normarc instrument landing system (ILS) and distance measuring equipment (DME) to 17 airports in 12 countries, all operated by ASECNA. As a turnkey project, Indra is responsible for…
Ethiopia Airlines, Royal Air Maroc are Africa’s Most on Time Airlines
Ethiopia Airlines is the leading on time airline in Africa according to the Most On-Time Airlines and Airports of 2022 Unveiled by aviation analytics firm Cirium. Ethiopia Airlines scored 77.3% on time arrival over 102,571 flights while Royal Air Maroc scored 72.01% over 45062 flights. Globally, Brazil’s Azul Airlines has been named as the global leader…
African airlines’ performance updates by AFRAA – November 2022
AIRLINE PERFORMANCE: This November traffic and airlines capacity deployed reached 85.7% and 84.2% of the 2019 level respectively. Domestic market share is now at 34.3% capacity and 34.3%% of passengers carried while intra-Africa passengers carried represented 30.9% and corresponding capacity at 24.8%. Intercontinental traffic this month is 34.2% and capacity 34.8%. African airlines operations on international…