All Africa news – Page 60
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ROUTES: Ethiopian studies helping African national start-ups
Ethiopian Airlines is in talks with the governments of Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Uganda with a view to assisting them in establishing new national carriers.
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ROUTES: Southwest sets stage for future partnerships
Southwest Airlines sees its new reservations system as being key to driving interline and codeshare traffic with potential overseas partners.
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ROUTES: Swazi Airways to begin flights in November
African start-up Swazi Airways will begin operations from November with initial routes to Durban, Cape Town and Harare from Manzini King Mswati III International airport.
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ROUTES: Chengdu unveils new international links
A string of planned new international services from Chengdu have been unveiled today during a signing ceremony at World Routes.
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ROUTES: Ethiopian plans Chengdu route
Ethiopian Airlines will begin flights between Addis Ababa and Chengdu next summer
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fastjet turns attention to South Africa
Fastjet’s disclosure on 20 September that it will relocate its headquarters from London Gatwick to Johannesburg came as something of a surprise, given that the airline primarily operates out of Tanzania.
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ANALYSIS: How airlines can target illegal wildlife trade
Criminal gangs are exploiting the global aviation network to transport illegal wildlife products around the world, putting at risk the survival of many endangered species and posing a major threat to public health. Earlier this year, the airline industry pledged to do what it could to fight this trade, by ...
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ROUTES: Network planners meet amid mixed backdrop
Airlines and airport network planners arrive in Chengdu for this year's World Routes with the industry showing distinct signs of a split personality.
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New IATA chief to 'actively push' NDC
IATA new director general Alexandre de Juniac has committed to actively push the New Distribution Capability programme.
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NewsFour Solar Ship airships ordered for African aid transport
Solar Ship has received an order for four of its cargo-carrying airships from Africa-based Manaf Freighters, for use in freight transport and disaster relief.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Can nations agree how to curb greenhouse-gas emissions?
Global agreement on a market-based measure to curb aviation emissions is not the only possible environmental milestone of the upcoming ICAO Assembly in Montreal. Also on the cards is the final endorsement of the first-ever global carbon dioxide efficiency standard for aircraft, which was agreed and recommended in February by ...
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Top 100 aerospace manufacturers hit by fall in revenues and profits in 2015
As is often the case, this year’s ranking of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers by revenue has a familiar feel, with the top eight companies staying in the same position as last year and only small movements throughout most of the list. The industry is dominated by big beasts and ...
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Air Namibia to serve Durban via Gaborone
Air Namibia will on 30 October start flights to Durban in South Africa from Windhoek, with a stopover in Botswana's capital Gaborone.
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Tunisair orders A320neos after rejigging backlog
Tunisair has ordered five Airbus A320neo twinjets, the airframer’s latest backlog figures have disclosed.
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MetroJet probe bids to find origin of A321 disintegration
Egyptian investigators are to begin an analysis of debris to establish the disintegration sequence of the MetroJet Airbus A321 which crashed in Sinai last year.
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Turkish Airlines to restore Sharm el-Sheikh link: embassy
Turkish Airlines is to restore services to the embattled Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in September.
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FL Technics services Express Air Cargo's initial two 737s
Tunisian start-up Express Air Cargo has recruited Lithuanian MRO specialist FL Technics to conduct maintenance on two Boeing 737s prior to the carrier's launch.
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Opinion
OPINION: Airbus exposed to financial headwinds by SFO probe
The UK Serious Fraud Office's formal investigation into Airbus, disclosed on 8 August and centred on "irregularities" in regard to third-party consultants, is potentially immaterial unless it snowballs into guilty verdicts and scandal.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Maturity brings change of focus for airline alliances
As the world’s three large alliances head towards their second decade, there is a sense that the time for major growth is over – but that’s not to say their evolution has stopped.