Read enough African aviation coverage this year and nearly every airline appears to be winning. Ethiopian Airlines is dominant. Air Peace is dominant. RwandAir is emerging as the next continental
On 9 July, the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), extending the African payment network into the six-country Central African Economic and
Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation closed the Kuwait Flight Information Region to overflights on July 18, following missile and drone attacks linked to renewed Iranian strikes on the country.
Average business airfares across the Middle East and North Africa climbed from $389 in January to $567 in June, a swing of nearly 46 percent inside two quarters, according to
TDN reported on 10 July that Air Zimbabwe’s return to London was a regulatory workaround in search of a distribution strategy. The airline had cleared UK airspace access through a
Amadeus has deployed its Air Pricing Optimization tool, AAPO, across the full network of Scandinavian Airlines. The rollout is one of the clearest signals yet that continuous, AI-driven pricing is
South African Airways and Turkish Airlines activated their codeshare partnership on 15 July, with the first joint flights operating a day later. The agreement itself is not new. It was
South African low-cost carrier LIFT announced in June that it had become the first airline in the country to offer both Apple Pay and Google Pay directly through its website,
Air India has rolled out a rebuilt version of its mobile app, and the headline changes are not cosmetic. The airline says its digital teams designed and built both the
U.S. travel agency air ticket sales hit $58.8 billion in the first half of 2026, a new record. But the more consequential number buried in the data is 21.6 percent.
