Guy Leitch The Aviation AFRICA Summit and Exhibition for 2024 was themed “Bridging Skies and Leveraging Growth.” Held in Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre in September, it “exceeded expectations and set new milestones in aviation collaborations and innovation.” With participation from 34 African countries, 1,200 delegates, 92 airlines and operators, andRead More →
Text: Dr J Pons Amongst the many services it provides, White River based Mercy Air flies teams of optometrists to do sight saving cataract surgery across the other side of South Africa – in the Northern Cape. “The powerful Kodiak lifted us to the skies. As the wheels lift off,Read More →
The Nurse’s Congo Ordeal Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McCallum in Rwanda. There are certain years in a person’s life that remain emblazoned on one’s memory forever. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that they are imprinted on one’s soul. Those years define us andRead More →
I WAS ASKED THE OTHER DAY by a senior SACAA official why I call it the ‘Commission Against Aviation’. I tried to explain the joke; that one of the roles of the SACAA was to develop aviation. Yet the problem is that the excessive regulation and arbitrary enforcement, coupled withRead More →
Pratt & Whitney Canada is celebrating the accumulation of a billion hours on its PT6A engine in the 60th year of the engine’s production. The company says more than 64,000 PT6s have been produced since 1963, accumulating more than half the hours flown by all the P&WC engines. The totalRead More →
(Main Pic- Siza Mzimela) Hilka Birns of CH Aviation reports that – “Former South African Express and South African Airways CEO Siza Mzimela and SA Express ex-chairpersons Tryphosa Ramano and Trevor Abrahams are amongst six former executives who have applied to the South African High Court to stop an investigationRead More →
February 2023 – The poor quality of African accident investigation reports is once again in the spotlight. THE FALLOUT FROM THE TWO Boeing Max crashes has been enormous – not just in the 346 lives lost, but in the inestimable damage to the once proud Boeing reputation for engineering excellence.Read More →
AS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE TRAVEL bounces back more strongly than expected from Covid, Africa has once again been left behind. The African aviation industry has struggled to compete on the world stage with its share of airline traffic having fallen from around 2% to currently 1.8% – despite having 20% ofRead More →
Nedbank’s Aircraft Finance head James Geldenhuys answers Guy Leitch’s questions about the state of post Covid aviation finance in Africa. GL: Has Covid and finance defaults made it harder for sub-Saharan African airlines to finance aircraft? JG: The Covid pandemic and associated fear has certainly damaged the industry on aRead More →
