If it is built, the new airport will occupy vast swathes of what are currently fields around Bishoftu, about an hour’s drive south of Addis Ababa.

Gulf carriers are expanding rapidly across Africa in a new aviation land grab, competing with African and Turkish hubs for ...

While Africa is expected to outpace global air traffic growth next year, the region continues to face some of the world’s toughest operating conditions – resulting in the smallest share of global ...

RwandAir has received a top award as the Best Regional Airline in Africa at the 2025 World Airline Awards during the Paris Air Show. The awards event is hosted by Skytrax, the international air ...

Commsoft has announced that Africa World Airlines (AWA), a new Ghanaian airline headquartered in Accra, has selected OASES to support its fleet of six Embraer EMB-145 aircraft. Africa World Airlines ...

The sector has also benefited from early shipments ahead of US tariff deadlines, as well as re-routing of goods to new ...

Turkish Airlines, the national flag carrier of Türkiye, has signed a codeshare agreement with South African Airways, the ...

Emirates has been honoured with the Travel Gold Award of Excellence for Connecting Africa to the World in recognition of its ...

Kenya Airways has turned a net profit for the first time in more than a decade. [File, Standard] Kenya Airways’ 2024 results are remarkable in two ways. The first is that Kenya’s national carrier has ...

Africa’s airlines face rising demand but are held back by high costs, thin profits ...

Despite air travel being a critical driver of trade, tourism, and regional integration, several African nations still lack operational national airlines. While countries like Ethiopia and Rwanda have ...

Data shows number of domestic passengers grew by about 200,000 to 18.7 million in 2024 from 18.5 million, while intra-African passengers declined sharply to 17.6 million from 21.2 million in 2023.