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Zambia Airways: Face-to-face with Peter Kaoma
Peter B. Kaoma, the Managing Director of Zambia Airways, is busy implementing an urgent rescue plan aimed at stemming the national flag-carrier’s…
Ethiopian Airlines: A priceless reputation
The achievements of Ethiopian Airlines since its formation in December, 1945, are a source of pride to Ethiopians as well as to…
A national flag, national anthem and national airline
Legend has it that when African states gained their political independence from Western countries they were bequeathed three seemingly essential symbols of…
European airlines dominate African sky
European airlines currently dwarf African airlines on Europe-Africa routes. In addition, most of them enjoy a higher passenger revenue yield on their…
Analysis: The African airline industry
The past two decades have witnessed a substantial development of air transport services in Africa with the annual growth in passenger and…
Airbus warms up African battle
With a string of sales successes in Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Kenya safely under is belt,…
Prospects for a West African airline
Air Afrique is a brave attempt by a number of African states to run a combined airline. It is not commercially successful,…
Nigeria Airways radically reorganises
Nigeria Airways is undergoing a sweeping administrative and operational reorganisation aimed at putting the airline on a stronger financial footing. The cost-cutting…
Air Afrique struggles to control costs
Africa’s multinational airline Air Afrique is counting the cost of severe financial and industrial problems which made 1984 the most trying of…
Aircraft sales: Boeing … going … gone
In the words of a Boeing marketing executive, 1984 turned out to be a good year, but not a great year. The…