Alexandre de Juniac is IATA’s director general and CEO. (Image source: IATA)
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments and industry in Africa to focus on four priorities to allow aviation to drive economic and social development on the continent, enrich people’s lives and enable the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG’s)
The emergency cargo flight carried three 40ft “plug and play” mobile container laboratories. (Image source: Volga-Dnepr Group)
Volga-Dnepr Group assisted in the Mйrieux Foundation’s efforts to control the Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by undertaking a special cargo flight last week carrying mobile bio-medical laboratories
The federal government is seeking to modernise and streamline the national airport security apparatus. (Image source: afromusing/Flickr)
Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, said that significant investment is needed to facilitate the nation’s medium-and long-term airport infrastructure plans
Capacity grew 17.1 per cent year-on-year. (Image source: 182164775/Adobe Stock)
African carriers posted the fastest growth of any region in August, with an increase in demand of eight per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest IATA analysis
The original facilities of the airport had been experiencing great difficulty facilitating the increasing number of passengers. (Image source: Cornelius Kibelka/Flickr)
The opening of three new airport terminal buildings and the installation of a radar surveillance system have improved the capacity of Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) both quantitatively and qualitatively
