All Africa news – Page 74
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ANALYSIS: Business aviation is bouncing back
It’s show time again for the business aviation industry. The annual NBAA convention, the largest and longest-running event within this niche sector, is returning to the bright lights of Las Vegas – a fitting host for a market that is starting to emerge into the light following a miserable few ...
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NewsNo evidence for UK sabotage theory: Egyptian ministry
Egypt’s civil aviation chief insists that the country’s airports employ international security standards, and claims there is no evidence to confirm UK government suspicions that sabotage brought down the MetroJet Airbus over Sinai.
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UK acts on suspicion that sabotage brought down A321
UK specialists are to carry out a security assessment of Sharm el-Sheikh airport after the government expressed concern that sabotage might have caused the destruction of a Russian-operated Airbus A321 over the Sinai peninsula.
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An-12 reported to have crashed at Juba
Unconfirmed reports are indicating that an aircraft has crashed on departure from South Sudan’s Juba airport.
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Task of reading MetroJet A321 recorders yet to be assigned
Investigators have yet to determine which authority will handle the download of data from the crashed MetroJet Airbus A321's flight recorders.
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Egypt tells carriers to avoid Sinai airspace entry point
Egyptian authorities have requested that air traffic avoid a waypoint off the northern coast of the Sinai peninsula.
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At least one flight recorder recovered from crashed A321
Recovery teams at the site of the MetroJet Airbus A321 crash in northern Sinai have retrieved at least one flight recorder from the wreckage.
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BA partner Comair suffers 737 gear collapse
One of British Airways franchise partner Comair’s Boeing 737-400s has suffered a gear-collapse accident while landing at Johannesburg.
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NewsRwandan "Droneport" project seeks UAVs for testing
A project aiming to deliver medical supplies to remote areas of Africa using unmanned air vehicles is gathering pace, as it prepares to select the systems that will be used for a pilot test programme in 2016.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines in bloom despite mixed market messages
Global airlines should consider themselves extremely lucky right now, as their feelings of general good health and optimism, do not span all industries, particularly those in the emerging markets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Africa's aviation market remains on the fringes
A common theme across the African air transport sector over the past two decades has been calls to unlock the continent's growth potential through opening up its skies.
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Fastjet Zimbabwe to begin flights this month
Fastjet Zimbabwe is to start flights at the end of October, having been granted an air operator's certificate by the national civil aviation authority.
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Two become one in African aviation show merger
Two established African aviation events are combining into a single show targeted at the business and commercial aviation communities.
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Undisclosed African nation buys two C-27Js
Alenia Aermacchi has bolstered its backlog for the C-27J medium transport with an order for two examples from an undisclosed African nation.
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ROUTES: Air Zimbabwe eyes London and Beijing return this year
Air Zimbabwe is targeting a return to London and Beijing as soon as this year part of a new push for network growth chief executive Edmund Makona disloses.
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ROUTES: Growing Mango eyes African expansion
South African low-cost carrier Mango will turn its attentions to expanding into routes beyond South Africa as it continues on recent strong growth.
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ROUTES: Fastjet expects Zimbabwe AOC 'within weeks'
Pan-African low-cost carrier Fastjet is "about a week away" from securing the AOC for its new Zimbabwean subsidiary.
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ROUTES: Ethiopian pushes for progress on African open skies
Ethiopian Airlines chief executive Tewolde GebreMariam is urging the African union to maintain its drive to liberalise the continent’s air transport system and adopt a Europe-style approach to bilateral negotiations.
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ROUTES: Proflight Zambia plots all-jet fleet
Proflight Zambia will eventually phase out its fleet of BAE Systems Jetstream 31s and 41s to become a “jet only” operator, commercial director Keira Irwin discloses.
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ROUTES: South Africa's Skywise plans to quadruple fleet
Johannesburg-based Skywise Airlines is in "expansion mode" and is planning to acquire seven to eight Boeing 737-800s to its fleet over the next three to four years, co-chairperson Tabassum Qadir discloses.