Airline News

In 1975, when apartheid-era South African Airways faced flight bans across mainland Africa, single-runway tarmac on the Cape Verdean island of Sal provided the essential refuelling stop for flights bound …

Flying from Lagos to Douala, a distance of under 400 kilometres, regularly demands an overnight layover in Addis Ababa or Paris, racking up airfares that exceed transatlantic itineraries. This spatial …

Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of …

Namibia is rebuilding its national airline, and a fresh licence filing just gave the African travel trade the clearest picture yet of where its routes will go.  According to Windhoek …

Morocco’s airport passenger growth reached 18.83 million travellers in the first six months of 2026, up 8.83%  on the same period a year earlier, according to figures the National Airports …

Kenya Airways is not backing down on its most lucrative Gulf corridor. Business Daily Africa reports that the carrier has secured a second daily landing slot at Dubai International Airport …

Etihad Airways and Fastjet Zimbabwe signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Harare on 7th July 2026, and the Etihad-Fastjet Zimbabwe partnership folds Zimbabwe’s domestic carrier into one of the Gulf’s …

Convenience across transatlantic flight routes carries a steep price tag that passengers often ignore. According to data from Google Flights Route Analytics, those booking the fifteen-hour non-stop flight between Nairobi …

A grounded aircraft sitting in Namibia says more about African aviation than any press statement can. Air Botswana is now bringing that aircraft home, and the timeline attached to the …

South Sudan now controls its own skies. In a decision confirmed in late June 2026, the International Civil Aviation Organization approved the Juba Flight Information Region, and the decision hands …