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Africa’s aviation industry is on an upward trajectory. There’s room for a more aggressive takeoff

Africa’s aviation industry is on an upward trajectory. There’s room for a more aggressive takeoff

SETH ONYANGO, BIRD NEWSROOM The air transport industry in Africa is expected to grow at 5 per cent annually over the next 20 years with the African Development Bank asserting the sector is the "next infrastructure growth frontier for Africa” Africa’s aviation industry is expected to maintain a cruising altitude of 5 per cent growth per annum for the next 20 years, despite the ongoing COVID-19 financial turbulence. However, there is room for a far more aggressive takeoff. International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts the sector’s growth to remain steady for two decades as African carriers add more routes on…
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World must prevent repeat of Belarus incident, airlines chief says

World must prevent repeat of Belarus incident, airlines chief says

THE head of a group representing most global airlines welcomed an international investigation into the forced landing of a Ryanair jetliner in Belarus and said the world must ensure such incidents never happen again. "That sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable and must be strongly condemned. We must have measures to ensure that can't happen again," Willie Walsh, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, told Reuters. The United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed on Thursday to investigate the forced grounding. Belarus has said it was responding to a bomb threat. Walsh said evidence suggested the threat had…
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