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... 

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... 

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 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... 

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)... 

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 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... 

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... 

South African Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy on Tuesday published the Regulations concerning the fees to be paid for aviation meteorological services to be provided by... 

South African airline Airlink announced on Monday that, because of increasing demand, it will increase the number of its flights between Johannesburg and the resort town of Vilanculos in... 

Air Belgium announced on Friday that, because of its new interline agreement with Air Mauritius, it was doubling the number of its flights between its home base and Johannesburg. Henceforth, in... 

TAAG Angola Airlines announced at the 2023 Paris Air Show on Wednesday that it had firmed up orders for nine Airbus A220-300 single-aisle airliners, to be obtained via lease companies. This order... 

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... 

Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus’ wholly-owned technology innovation subsidiary, Airbus UpNext, has launched a new demonstrator programme, to test hydrogen fuel cells as sources for... 

On Monday, the first day of the 2023 Paris Air Show, Airbus announced that it had been awarded the biggest single order ever for airliners. The firm order, for 500 A320-family single-aisle... 

Cape Town Air Access, a public private initiative led by Western Province trade, investment and tourism promotion agency Wesgro, is participating in the AviaDev Africa 2023 conference in Nairobi,... 

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has called on governments to ensure that aviation gets its fair share of the growing... 

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the representative body for the global airline industry, has urged governments to fulfil their obligations under the Convention of... 

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the global representative body for the airline industry and is currently holding its annual general meeting in Istanbul, Türkiye, has... 

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), announced on Monday a major upgrade in its forecast for airline industry profitability... 

South African private-sector airline Airlink has announced that it will start services between Johannesburg and both Lilongwe and Blantyre in Malawi in early September. Flights to Lilongwe, the... 

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that, worldwide, air passenger traffic continued to recover strongly in... 

The year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in global air cargo demand decelerated in April, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. (IATA is the representative body of the global... 

International air transport industry-owned multinational information technology company SITA (not to be confused with South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency) Senior VP: SITA at Borders... 

Cape Town Air Access on Monday highlighted that, within a matter of weeks, two more African airlines would be flying to and from Cape Town International Airport. Cape Town Air Access is an... 

Defence and manufacturing company Airbus Defence and Space and its wholly-owned subsidiary Airbus UpNext, have achieved in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone using an A310 MRTT. In... 

German developer Wingcopter, an operator of delivery drones, and Hamburg-based ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research have announced a development partnership. Together, they intend to explore... 

South African private-sector aviation services company Fireblade Aviation announced on Tuesday the appointment of Leigh Kretzschmar as its new MD. She is a registered Chartered Accountant and the... 

State-owned airline South African Airways (SAA), which exited business rescue in April 2021, and is in the process of being taken over by a strategic equity partner (SEP), has briefed Parliament’s... 

TAAG Angola Airlines, the West African country’s national flag-carrier, announced on Tuesday that it was increasing the number of its flights between its home base and hub, Luanda, and Brazil’s... 

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) – the global representative body for the airline industry – has highlighted the latest developments concerning the production and roll-out of... 

The Competition Commission has given the go ahead for the merger between State-owned South African Airways (SAA) and newly incorporated Takatso Aviation, but said Global Aviation Operations – the... 

Border management agency SITA sees considerable potential for South Africa and Africa to leapfrog legacy deployments and adopt digital solutions at borders to streamline travel and transport in the... 

Power-to-liquids is, aviation fuel business Air bp believes, one of the “most promising” longer-term pathways for the production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). (Air bp is a unit of UK-based... 

Air bp, the aviation fuels business of UK-based global energy giant bp, has highlighted the potential role of Fischer-Tropsch technology in the production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)....