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Airline industry IT company highlights opportunities and risks for industry from AI

By: Rebecca Campbell 21st August 2023 The global air transport industry information technology (IT) and technology solutions company SITA has highlighted the opportunities, as well as the risks, presented to the commercial aviation industry (both airlines and airports) by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. (SITA... →

Lufthansa signs code-share agreements with South African airlines

By: Rebecca Campbell 17th August 2023 Germany’s national flag carrier Lufthansa has announced that it has recently signed code-share agreements with two South African airlines. These are the still State-owned (but soon-to-be public-private partnership) South African Airways (SAA) and the private sector's Airlink. “We are very pleased... →

IATA reports continuing strong air passenger traffic in June, across the globe

By: Rebecca Campbell 10th August 2023 Air passenger traffic, worldwide, continued its strong recovery in June, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. IATA was the global representative body for the airline industry. In year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, total air passenger traffic in June was up 31%, reaching... →

IATA reports an easing in the contraction of air cargo demand in June

By: Rebecca Campbell 8th August 2023 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global representative body for the airline industry, has reported that the decline in air cargo demand continued its deceleration in June. That month saw the smallest year-on-year (y-o-y) contraction since February 2022. Total global y-o-y... →

South Africa’s air traffic control agency signs agreement with its DRC counterpart

By: Rebecca Campbell 8th August 2023 South Africa’s State-owned air traffic management (ATM) company, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), announced on Monday evening that it had entered a commercial agreement with its counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Régie des Voies Aériennes (RVA). The agreement,... →

Kenya Airways expands its partnership with major US airline

By: Rebecca Campbell 7th August 2023 Kenya Airways (KQ), the East African country’s flag carrier, announced on Monday that it and major US carrier Delta Air Lines (Delta) had expanded their strategic partnership. The partnership now, with effect from Saturday (August 5), includes KQ’s direct Nairobi-New York flight. This service is... →

Angolan airline enters strategic relationship with South Africa-based travel consortium

By: Rebecca Campbell 2nd August 2023 TAAG Angola Airlines (TAAG), the south-west African country’s national flag carrier, announced on Wednesday that it had entered a collaboration with South Africa-based international travel consortium Harvey World Travel Southern Africa (HWT), which is part of South Africa’s Bidvest group. This... →

Photo by TAAG Angola Airlines
A Boeing 777-300 of TAAG

Commercial aviation IT provider partners with AI company to help airports reach net-zero

By: Rebecca Campbell 2nd August 2023 International air transport industry company SITA has announced that it has entered a partnership with Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology company Envision Digital. The intent of this partnership is to help airports, worldwide, to both achieve their net-zero carbon... →

ATNS signs collaboration agreement with Aireon to advance ADS-B services in Africa

By: Schalk Burger 28th July 2023 South African State-owned Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) and aviation surveillance technologies company Aireon have signed a cooperation agreement to advance space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) products and services in the Southern African region. Aireon has... →

ATNS CEO Nozipho Mdawe.

Kenya Airways enters agreement with Lufthansa Technik for support for its Boeing 787s

By: Rebecca Campbell 26th July 2023 Kenya Airways (KQ), the East African country’s public private partnership national flag carrier, has announced that it has signed a long-term contract, with Germany-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company Lufthansa Technik, for the supply of components for the airline’s fleet of... →

Photo by Alf van Beem
A Boeing 787-8 of Kenya Airways

High Court dismisses Airlink’s attempt to recover funds from SAA

By: Rebecca Campbell 26th July 2023 South African private sector airline Airlink has acknowledged the decision of the Johannesburg High Court, regarding the carrier’s application against the State-owned South African Airways (SAA). Airlink was seeking to recover about R890-million from SAA, but the Court dismissed its application.... →

Photo by Airlink
An Embraer E190 of Airlink

Gordhan welcomes Competition Tribunal ruling on SAA Takatso deal

By: Rebecca Campbell 26th July 2023 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has warmly welcomed the decision of the Competition Tribunal to approve the takeover of State-owned South African Airways (SAA) by the Takatso consortium. The tribunal did, however, impose conditions on the take-over, namely that there be a moratorium of... →

Photo by Reuters
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan

Competition watchdog approves SAA, Takatso deal - but bars minority shareholders, retrenchments

By: News24Wire 25th July 2023 The Competition Tribunal has approved Takatso Aviation's proposed acquisition of a 51% stake in South African Airways, but has given conditions - including a moratorium on retrenchments as, well as a sale of the stake held by minority shareholders. The Tribunal said in a brief statement that it... →

DTIC aims to improve awareness on AfCFTA through outreach programme

By: Darren Parker 25th July 2023 The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) has embarked on provincial outreach and awareness workshops in collaboration with provincial governments, wherein it hopes to have engaged all provinces on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) by the end of July. The DTIC is... →

FlyNamibia now on global travel network, in association with South Africa’s Airlink

By: Rebecca Campbell 24th July 2023 Namibian privately-held domestic and regional airline FlyNamibia is, from Monday, promoting its flights and services to travel agents around the world on the Global Distribution System (GDS), as a franchisee of Airlink. The latter is a South African private-sector domestic and regional airline... →

Photo by FlyNamibia
An image showing a FlyNamibia ERJ145 over a Namibian desert

ATNS now using space-based tracking, surveillance system

By: Darren Parker 21st July 2023 South African air navigation service provider Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has started using global aircraft tracking and surveillance system manufacturer Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in aircraft operations in its airspace. Since signing on... →

RwandAir set to launch daily direct London flights

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 21st July 2023 Airline RwandAir will soon launch daily direct services between London’s Heathrow airport and Kigali, as it continues to expand its European network and meet additional demand for UK flights. The African airline, which has been operating from London since 2017, will increase capacity on its... →

An image showing a RwandAir flight landing

RwandAir landing

Airline industry seeking to restore passenger confidence in the handling of their baggage

By: Rebecca Campbell 20th July 2023 The incidence of mishandled baggage on commercial flights worldwide reached an incidence of 7.6 per thousand passengers in 2022, representing a year-on-year increase of 74.7%, SITA Director of Baggage Nicole Hogg has pointed out. SITA is the international company which acts as an information... →

IATA to hold its first integrated safety and operations conference in September

By: Rebecca Campbell 19th July 2023 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the representative body for the global airline industry, has announced that its first World Safety and Operations Conference (WSOC) will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, and run from September 19 to September 21. The theme of the conference... →

South African airline Airlink receives prestigious international award

By: Rebecca Campbell 18th July 2023 South African regional airline Airlink has been declared the winner of the Africa and Middle East category in the 2023 FlightGlobal-Korn Ferry Airline Strategy Award. The award was presented to Airlink CEO and MD Rodger Foster at a ceremony in London, in the UK, on Sunday night, attended by more... →

Photo by Leo Johnson/FlightGlobal
Airlink CEO and MD Rodger Foster

IATA, Atkins develop toolkit to calculate embodied carbon in airport construction

By: Rebecca Campbell 17th July 2023 Global airline representative body, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and design, engineering and project management consultancy company Atkins (part of the SNC-Lavalin Group) have developed a digital “toolkit” which will allow airports to estimate the embodied carbon from the... →

ACSA seeking to improve its operations, customer experience through digitalisation

By: Rebecca Campbell 17th July 2023 The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has highlighted its plans to digitalise its operations, to increase efficiency and improve the experience of the passengers using its airports. The State-owned company owns nine airports, namely OR Tambo International (Johannesburg), Cape Town... →

Cape Town International

Airlink unveils an airliner in a special livery

By: Rebecca Campbell 13th July 2023 South African private-sector regional airline Airlink has painted its latest and recently-acquired Embraer E195 airliner in a special all-black colour scheme, in order to promote the carrier’s Skybucks customer loyalty programme. Skybucks was itself launched only recently. “Skybucks is a key... →

Photo by Airlink
Airlink’s jet-black jet

IATA unveils collaboration to assess the financial aspects of reaching net-zero in aviation

By: Rebecca Campbell 12th July 2023 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) are to collaborate to evaluate the financial aspects of achieving aviation’s and global governments’ joint objective, of net-zero carbon emissions from commercial air travel, by 2050. IATA is the... →

SAA Technical completes overhaul of key aircraft components in record time

By: Rebecca Campbell 11th July 2023 South African Airways Technical (SAAT), a subsidiary company of the State-owned South African Airways (SAA) Group (and so, a sister company to the SAA airline), has reported that its has overhauled a shipset of landing gear for a Boeing 737-800 airliner in a record time. The term landing gear... →

Transport sector has role to play in sustainable economies – Chikunga

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 10th July 2023 The transport sector is not untouched by climate change and also has considerably high negative externalities, and this necessitates innovative thinking around the opportunities to renavigate transport systems towards greater resilience and becoming a true enabler of sustainable economies. This... →

Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga

Rolls-Royce and Ethiopian Airlines sign servicing agreement for new engines

By: Rebecca Campbell 7th July 2023 UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce and Africa’s largest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, have announced that the latter has signed a service agreement with the former for the maintenance of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines that will power the airline’s four new... →

Photo by Airbus
Artist’s impression of an A350-1000 in Ethiopian colours

Air passenger travel continues to recover strongly, worldwide, reports IATA

By: Rebecca Campbell 6th July 2023 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that air passenger traffic continued to grow strongly in May. Total air passenger traffic in May was up 39.1%, year-on-year (y-o-y). Domestic traffic rose 36.4% and... →

Passengers disembarking from an Airlink flight in Nairobi

IATA reports that the decreasing trend in air cargo demand decelerated in May

By: Rebecca Campbell 6th July 2023 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the global representative body for the airline industry, has reported that the year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in air cargo demand decelerated over the first five months of this year. In January, the y-o-y drop had been 16.8%, but in May... →

Airbus opens new wing technology research and development centre

By: Rebecca Campbell 5th July 2023 Airbus officially opened its new Wing Technology Development Centre (WTDC) on Tuesday. Located at the group’s site at Filton, in England, the new centre will build and test demonstrator wings for a variety of research projects and programmes. “The new [WTDC] will help us to ground our research in... →

Photo by Airbus
A view of the floor of the new Wing Technology Development Centre

IATA data shows uneven air passenger traffic recovery across Africa during the first quarter

By: Rebecca Campbell 4th July 2023 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has published a graph charting the recovery (in percentage terms, not absolute numbers) of air passenger traffic and capacity in Africa. The graph, too low in resolution to reproduce here,... →

Kenya Airways on course for turnaround next year

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th June 2023 Kenya Airways, the country’s public private partnership national flag carrier, expected to achieve turn-around next year. This was reaffirmed at the airline’s 2023 virtual annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday. The carrier presented its audited financial results and business performance for the... →

Cape Town to have direct air link with São Paulo in Brazil

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th June 2023 Cape Town Air Access, an initiative led by Western Cape provincial trade, tourism and investment promotion agency Wesgro, and the Western Cape provincial government, have welcomed the decision by State-owned airline South African Airways (SAA) to initiate a direct link between Cape Town and... →

Airlink leases additional airliners to meet growing demand

By: Rebecca Campbell 29th June 2023 South African regional airline Airlink has announced that it is expanding it fleet by leasing three Embraer E195 aircraft from AerCap. Airlink is Southern Africa’s biggest regional carrier, and the E195 is the largest type that it currently operates. The first of these three additional aircraft... →

Photo by Avishkar Thulsie/Airlink
An Airlink Embraer E195

Latest weather service fees for aviation in South Africa have been published

By: Rebecca Campbell 27th June 2023 South African Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy on Tuesday published the Regulations concerning the fees to be paid for aviation meteorological services to be provided by the South African Weather Service (SAWS). These fees are charged under the terms of the 2001 South... →

Photo by Creamer Media's Rebecca Campbell
Weather services are essential to aviation

Airlink to reinforce its Johannesburg-Vilanculos link but axe its Mbombela-Vilanculos service

By: Rebecca Campbell 26th June 2023 South African airline Airlink announced on Monday that, because of increasing demand, it will increase the number of its flights between Johannesburg and the resort town of Vilanculos in Mozambique. The extra flights will commence on January 8, next year. However, in consequence, the carrier will... →

Photo by Airlink
One of Airlink’s ERJ-135s.

Air Belgium doubles flights between Johannesburg and Brussels, and adds Mauritius

By: Rebecca Campbell 23rd June 2023 Air Belgium announced on Friday that, because of its new interline agreement with Air Mauritius, it was doubling the number of its flights between its home base and Johannesburg. Henceforth, in addition to the two direct flights a week between Brussels and Johannesburg, there will also be two... →

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