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High Court dismisses Airlink’s attempt to recover funds from SAA
South African private sector airline Airlink has acknowledged the decision of the Johannesburg High Court, regarding the carrier’s application against the State-owned South African Airways (SAA)....
Gordhan welcomes Competition Tribunal ruling on SAA Takatso deal
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has warmly welcomed the decision of the Competition Tribunal to approve the takeover of State-owned South African Airways (SAA) by the Takatso consortium....
Ghana, US, nuclear regulators reaffirm their close cooperation
The heads of the Ghana Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate closely on nuclear safety and regulation. This...
Sansa clarifies comments on possibility of a future South African astronaut
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) on Tuesday issued a clarification regarding the possibility of South African astronauts being trained and sent to the International Space Station...
South African food inflation continued to decelerate in June
South Africa’s food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) – hereafter, for short, to be referred to as just food – inflation continued to decelerate in June, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy...
National Science Week launched with appeal to schools to support STEM education
South Africa’s 2023 National Science Week (NSW) was successfully launched over the weekend, the launch being hosted by the University of Venda, in the Limpopo province. The NSW was first held in...
FlyNamibia now on global travel network, in association with South Africa’s Airlink
Namibian privately-held domestic and regional airline FlyNamibia is, from Monday, promoting its flights and services to travel agents around the world on the Global Distribution System (GDS), as a...
Western Cape seeking to use electricity crisis to develop low carbon energy system
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde on Friday highlighted that his administration had assigned R7-billion, over the next three years, to create an “ecosystem” that would facilitate private sector...
International panel seeks to protect Earth from extra-terrestrial contamination
A theme that has been expounded more than once in science fiction is of alien organisms being brought back to Earth, endangering human life. In reality, scientists have long been concerned with...
Hybrid-electric aircraft company ZeroAvia reports end of its first flight test programme
US-UK hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system development company ZeroAvia has reported that it has successfully completed its first flight test programme, using a Dornier Do 228 twin-engined...
Airline industry seeking to restore passenger confidence in the handling of their baggage
The incidence of mishandled baggage on commercial flights worldwide reached an incidence of 7.6 per thousand passengers in 2022, representing a year-on-year increase of 74.7%, SITA Director of...
IATA to hold its first integrated safety and operations conference in September
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the representative body for the global airline industry, has announced that its first World Safety and Operations Conference (WSOC) will...
South Africa lobbying to again be a member of the Council of the world’s maritime agency
The Department of Transport (DoT) has reported that South Africa is seeking to be again elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). South Africa has been a member of...
South African airline Airlink receives prestigious international award
South African regional airline Airlink has been declared the winner of the Africa and Middle East category in the 2023 FlightGlobal-Korn Ferry Airline Strategy Award. The award was presented to...
IATA, Atkins develop toolkit to calculate embodied carbon in airport construction
Global airline representative body, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and design, engineering and project management consultancy company Atkins (part of the SNC-Lavalin Group)...
Uncrewed naval craft market expected to grow strongly over next decade
International data and analytics company GlobalData has forecast that the global market for naval uncrewed maritime vehicles (UMVs) would rise from an estimated $1.273-billion this year to more...
ACSA seeking to improve its operations, customer experience through digitalisation
The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has highlighted its plans to digitalise its operations, to increase efficiency and improve the experience of the passengers using its airports. The...
UK researchers develop a construction material using fungi and knitted wool
British scientists have developed a new building material which uses a paste derived from the root network of the mycelium fungus in combination with a knitted textile framework (more pedantically,...
Cape Town startup seeks to replace plastics with home compostable bio-materials
Cape Town-based young-woman-led award-winning biotech startup BAOM eco solutions (BAOM), which has developed compostable cellulose-based alternatives to plastics and other packaging materials, is...
Airlink leases additional airliners to meet growing demand
South African regional airline Airlink has announced that it is expanding it fleet by leasing three Embraer E195 aircraft from AerCap. Airlink is Southern Africa’s biggest regional carrier, and the...
Localised weather stations for SA farms launched
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which is an agency of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), has highlighted the launch of a programme to deploy localised weather stations to...
UK-SA Tech Hub renews funding for South African startups group
The UK-SA Tech Hub, an initiative of the British High Commission (Embassy) in South Africa, has announced that it will provide a second round of funding for South Africa’s Startup Act Movement...
Airlink unveils an airliner in a special livery
South African private-sector regional airline Airlink has painted its latest and recently-acquired Embraer E195 airliner in a special all-black colour scheme, in order to promote the carrier’s...
Boeing releases its aircraft delivery figures for 2023 so far
Giant US aerospace and defence group Boeing reported on Tuesday the numbers of aircraft and spacecraft that it delivered to customers during both the second quarter and the first half of this year....
IATA unveils collaboration to assess the financial aspects of reaching net-zero in aviation
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) are to collaborate to evaluate the financial aspects of achieving aviation’s and global governments’...
Airbus formally opens yet another airliner final assembly line
Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus on Monday inaugurated its latest final assembly line (FAL) for its A320-family single-aisle airliners. Located at the Airbus complex in Toulouse, in...
SAA Technical completes overhaul of key aircraft components in record time
South African Airways Technical (SAAT), a subsidiary company of the State-owned South African Airways (SAA) Group (and so, a sister company to the SAA airline), has reported that its has overhauled...
South African bank highlights importance of US-Africa business summit
South Africa’s Standard Bank (not to be confused with the now-unrelated UK-based Standard Chartered Bank) has highlighted the importance of the US-Africa Business Summit, which will run from...
South Africa’s agricultural sector recorded significant decline in the first quarter
The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has highlighted, in a brief report, that, while the total South African economy avoided a technical recession during the first quarter of this...
Rolls-Royce and Ethiopian Airlines sign servicing agreement for new engines
UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce and Africa’s largest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, have announced that the latter has signed a service agreement with the former...
Sasol and Deutsche Aircraft deepen cooperation on green aviation fuels
German aircraft manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft and Sasol ecoFT, the sustainable fuels development business of South African petrochemical group Sasol, have announced a deepening of their...
Air passenger travel continues to recover strongly, worldwide, reports IATA
The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that air passenger traffic continued to grow strongly in May. Total air...
IATA reports that the decreasing trend in air cargo demand decelerated in May
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the global representative body for the airline industry, has reported that the year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in air cargo demand...
Airbus opens new wing technology research and development centre
Airbus officially opened its new Wing Technology Development Centre (WTDC) on Tuesday. Located at the group’s site at Filton, in England, the new centre will build and test demonstrator wings for a...
International panel seeks to protect Earth from extraterrestrial contamination
A theme that has been expounded more than once in science fiction is of alien organisms being brought back to Earth, endangering human life. In reality, scientists have long been concerned with...
IAEA approves Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant treated water discharge plan
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a specialist agency of the United Nations, announced on Tuesday that Japan’s plan to release treated water, currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi...
IATA data shows uneven air passenger traffic recovery across Africa during the first quarter
The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has published a graph charting the recovery (in percentage terms, not absolute numbers)...
Space telescope intended to probe dark energy and dark matter successfully launched
The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid space telescope is now on its way to its permanent operating location, some 1.5-million kilometres from Earth (or four times the distance to the Moon),...
Kenya Airways on course for turnaround next year
Kenya Airways, the country’s public private partnership national flag carrier, expected to achieve turn-around next year. This was reaffirmed at the airline’s 2023 virtual annual general meeting...
Cape Town to have direct air link with São Paulo in Brazil
Cape Town Air Access, an initiative led by Western Cape provincial trade, tourism and investment promotion agency Wesgro, and the Western Cape provincial government, have welcomed the decision by...
Vulindlela reforms will not be minor, assures Presidency
The South African government’s Operation Vulindlela (“opening up”) is intended to result in major reforms to key sectors of the economy, Presidency Project Management Office head Rudi Dicks assured...
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