by Wole Shadare | Jul 21, 2021 | Airlines |
Africa has 731 airports and 419 airlines with an aviation industry that supports around 6.9 million jobs and $80 billion in economic activity. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) alluded to the fact that the continent is set to become one of the...
by Wole Shadare | Jul 8, 2021 | Airlines |
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA), the umbrella body for African airlines painted a gloomy picture of the continent’s carriers stating that African airlines’ traffic decreased by 59% in June compared to the same month in 2019. AFRAA was established in 1968 in...
by Wole Shadare | Jun 7, 2021 | Embraer |
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated global aviation. The fallout is being severely felt across the African continent. Even before the pandemic, only 9% of the continent’s air traffic was intra-African. It’s common to hear stories that the fastest, easiest, and...
by admin | Aug 19, 2011 | Aerospace, Alaska, Bombardier, Continental Airlines, Embraer, Sukhoi Aerospace, Superjet, Virgin Austrailia |
This debate should be about the technologies, but never is. Passengers who are unfamiliar with the technologies see propellers on a plane and assume it is old and noisy. Readers of this blog hopefully are not in that category. Pure jets and turboprops (TP) are both...
by admin | Mar 30, 2011 | Aerospace, Airbus, Airlines, AVIC, Boeing, Bombardier, COMAC, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi Aerospace, Superjet |
AirInsight has published another of its industry studies by the above title. The regional market is called dynamic because there is so much activity in the ~100 seat segment. This market segment has typically been a graveyard. The success of Embraer with its E-Jets...
