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Airports Council International (ACI) has recognized Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) in its World’s Voice of the Customer Initiative. This initiative recognizes airports that continued to prioritize their customers and remained committed to ensuring that their voice was heard during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The recognition is a testament to KAA’s deliberate commitment to service excellence. ACI’s …
Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it has transported the first COVID-19 vaccine shipment from Beijing to N’Djamena via Addis Ababa. Tewolde GebreMariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, remarked: “We are glad that we have launched the delivery of our mission-critical service with the distribution of much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine. We will be repeating the remarkable and globally recognized success in leading the …
SITA has announced the launch of Health Protect – an industry solution, to help airlines, airports, governments, and passengers safely and securely share information on health tests or vaccinations needed during travel. Successful trials have already been undertaken with travelers to the United Arab Emirates, and soon to start at Milan Malpensa Airport. For many countries, economic recovery from …
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand for air cargo decreased by 10.6% in 2020, compared to 2019. This was the largest drop in year-on-year demand since IATA started to monitor cargo performance in 1990, outpacing the 6% fall in global trade in goods. According to IATA, global demand in 2020, …
By Roland Ohaeri Mauritania Airlines is one of the carriers interconnecting the West African region, linking the Sahel to the coastal and other West African destinations from its base at the Nouakchott International Airport (NKC), Mauritania. The airline also connects into parts of North Africa, as well as destinations in Europe which is a main trading and travel …
By Roland Ohaeri and Isaac Atoyebi The Aviation industry faces a gloomy period amid COVID-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc on the billion-dollar industry all over the world in 2020. The year 2020 is a year like no other in aviation history, because of the ravaging virus that has cost millions of lives as well. The pandemic still poses a …
Rakan Khaled, Director, Global Business Operation at Collins Aerospace As the impact of the COVID-19 continues to torment the aviation industry, so also is the industry becoming more innovative to better manage the effects of the pandemic and related issues. Collins Aerospace is already working on contactless technology to improve safety and efficiency at the airports. Rakan Khaled, the …
By Ali Tounsi Ali Tounsi, Secretary General, ACI-Africa Before looking at the current challenges of the air cargo sector in Africa posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to examine how this sector has been performing before the crisis. It is worth noting that African air cargo volume is mainly driven by international trade lanes, especially …
By Muhammad Al-Bakri Around the world countries are rolling out their COVID-19 vaccination strategies. The vaccine distribution will be the largest and most complex peacetime logistical exercise in the history of mankind. With so many lives and livelihoods at stake, we have to get it right. The crisis has brought into sharp relief three sets of challenges that …
