On 9 August, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame laid the foundation stone of the country’s newest transportation hub, the Bugesera International Airport, serving Kigali
Aviation
Lagos slows as travel to Africa displays double-digit growth
An analysis of seat capacity for travel to the top ten international airports in Africa, produced by ForwardKeys, reveals that Lagos is seeing substantial declines in both domestic and international capacity, mainly because Arik Air is cutting 53 per cent of its seats for the rest of 2017
Hargeisa joins Air Arabia's growing African network
Two weekly flights connecting Sharjah and Hargeisa starting 4 July 2017
RwandAir celebrate first direct flight to UK with travel trade competition
To celebrate the launch of the first direct flight between the UK and Rwanda, RwandAir has announced a new travel trade competition running until 14 July 2017
Africa requires advanced technology to improve civil aviation
Tellumat Air Traffic Management (ATC) has acknowledged the importance of promising technological advances in African civil aviation to enhance safety and cost effectiveness in regional air and ground security, for increasing the continent’s attractiveness as a sought after travel and business destination