Flying is almost always an adventure. However, to get on a plane to destinations otherwise unreachable but for days on end crossing the ocean on a ship is something truly special.

The Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, ASECNA, the Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd, NIGCOMSAT and Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %) joint efforts to accelerate SBAS development for aviation in Africa.

The irony of airports is that while they are all about leaving the ground, severing our ties to the earth and flying through the air, they are themselves very wired and tethered operational environments.

The disastrous impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the economic and financial sustainability of the airport industry made the modernization of ACI’s economic policies even more relevant in 2020.

IATA welcomed proposals to reinvigorate progress towards the Single European Sky (SES) but called for key amendments to modernize European airspace.

St Helena Airport joined the Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Carbon Accreditation programme, achieving Level 1 “Mapping” accreditation in December 2020.

After decades of thoughts and years of postponement, finally, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is up and running, affording all African countries, except Eritrea, to trade under a single market.

Did you know that some of the world’s largest and most well-known airlines have no domestic market at all?

In this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic, when air travel has still not returned to normal, ACI Africa and SITA have joined their efforts to propose a unique instructor-led virtual class on the trending topic of ‘Technology Enabling Sustainable Operations’...

As the most difficult year in aviation history drew to a close, optimism began to creep into the forecast for 2021 as vaccination campaigns began and prospects for a sustained recovery increased.