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Worsening impact of COVID-19 on African Aviation
Impact of COVID-19 on African Aviation and economics is worsening. Job losses in aviation and related industries could increase by up to 3.5 million. That is more than half of the region’s 6.2 million aviation-related employment and 400,000 more than the previous estimate.
Full-year 2020 traffic is expected to plummet by 54%… read more
Congo Airways secures s a state loan of 1 million dollars
Jambojet will make Mombasa its secondary hub
More than 3,000 SAA worker seek voluntary retrenchment
Over 3 000 South African Airways (SAA) employees have applied for voluntary retrenchment. The number is much higher than anticipatedand could lead to a collapse of operations.
Last month, SAA unions ac… read more
Kenya’s tourism sector turns to domestic travel as international tourist ceases
The Kenya tourism sector like other tourists destinations in Africa is shifting its focus to domestic travel to keep the sector alive with the absence of international tourists.
According to dispatchlive.co.za, at a time when hundreds of thousands of tourists would be making their way to Kenya to witness the fam… read more
Kenya: Elephant numbers double in the period 1980 to 2018
Kenya’s elephant numbers more than doubled between 1989 and 2018, thanks to increased anti-poaching efforts, the tourism minister said on Wednesday. Kenya had just 16,000 elephants in 1989, and this rose to more than 34,000 in 2018, Minister Najib Balala said.
“In the last couple of years, we have managed to tam… read more
African Development Bank’s AAA rating
Ratings agency S&P Global on Friday affirmed its ‘AAA/A-1+’long- and short-term issuer credit assessment of the African Development Bank (AfDB) with a stable outlook.
The rating agency positively assessed the Bank’s very strong financial risk profile, very strong capital adequacy, strong funding and l… read more
African Investor for LIAT in the Caribbean??
African financiersare among a group of several suitors interested in investing in LIAT, a regional airline headquartered in Antigua and Barbuda that operated high-frequency inter-island scheduled services to 15 destinations in the Caribbean, according to Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne. In a report monitored on… read more
Kenya Airways To Resume Fifth Freedom Flight To China
Kenya Airways is planning to resume its fifth freedom flight to China in October. The service from Nairobi to Guangzhou via Bangkok is expected to commence from the week beginning October 25.Guangzhou is China’s most in-demand city for African traffic
From October 25, the airline will be running its regular daily s… read more
Madagascar's future airport structure
At 592,800sqkm, Madagascar is the world’s second largest island country. Sitting in the Indian Ocean, some 400km off the coast of east Africa, it has 56 airportsand civil aerodromes open to public air traffic, including eight international airports, four mainly dedicated to domestic flights, and 44 secondary aer… read more
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