With a population of 37 million and GDP totalling $145 billion, Morocco dominates the business jet fleet in North Africa; nearly fifty percent of all aircraft are based there. Egypt, with a population in excess of 100 million, North Africa’s largest economy (2024 estimate: $395 billion) and the continent’s twelfth largest land mass, is second,…
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Global Passenger Traffic Expected to Recover by 2024 & Reach 9.4 billion Passengers
Airports Council International (ACI) World has published its fourteenth quarterly assessment analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on airports, and the path to recovery. Passenger traffic forecast 2023–2024: key takeaways Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global passenger volume was estimated to reach 10.5 billion passengers in 2023. However, the current projection of global…
Air Cairo Receives its 19th Airbus
Air Cairo has announced the joining of the 19 SU-BUR Airbus aircraft to its fleet as part of the airline’s plan to expand its network of routes and intensify weekly flights on its current routes in support of travel to, from and through Egyptian airports. Air Cairo’s total fleet is now 26 aircraft (19 Airbus…
18 Airbus Aircraft Joins Air Cairo Fleet
Air Cairo has announced the joining of the 18 SU-BUQ Airbus aircraft to its fleet as part of Air Cairo’s plan to expand its network of routes and intensify weekly flights on its current routes in support of travel to, from and through Egyptian airports. Air Cairo’s total fleet is now 25 aircraft (18 Airbus…
Egypt’s Sky Vision Airlines Begins Local Operations
Sky Vision Airlines completed its first commercial flight on the 2nd of January from Sharm El-Sheikh to Cairo a month after it acquired its air operator certificate. The first flights also come barely a month after the new airline received its first aircraft having taken delivery of its first A320-200 on December 6, 2022. Yesterday the airline…
Tanzania Signs a BASA with Egypt
Tanzania through the Ministry of Works and Transport, as an effort to recover from the Covid 19 Impacts, duo experts of Bilateral Air Services Agreements (BASAs) negotiations, met in Cairo, Egypt on 26 and 27 July 2022, to review the current BASA between the Governments of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Arab Republic of Egypt to…