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AFRICAN AIRLINES Volume 9, Issue 6 ASSOCIATION DES COMPAGNIES AERIENNES AFRICAINES June 2017 Issue AFRAA to stage its 49th Annual General Assembly from 12-14 November 2017 Inside this Issue: he African Airlines Associa- ness meetings among African airlines, tion (AFRAA) will convene industry partners and service providers. signs 2 its 49th Annual General Besides formal business of the Assem- extended codeshare agree- T Assembly (AGA) and Sum- bly, the Summit is structured to allow ment with EgyptAir mit from 12-14 November 2017 at the quality time for networking and busi- Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda. ness discussions to ensure that you EgyptAir receives 5th 2 This year’s AGA is proudly being leave Rwanda fulfilled. B737-800 NG hosted by RwandAir. ASKY recognized at the 2 Exhibition and Sponsorship Balafon Award of Excel- The AFRAA AGA is a high profile air opportunities lence transport event dedicated to airline CEOs and invited top executives in the wins There will be exhibition of products, 3 aviation industry. Annually, it brings SKYTRAX World Airline solutions and latest technologies in together more airline Chairmen, CEOs, Award aviation by reputable service providers top executives and principal decision- from across the world as well as excel- Cargo and makers in the aviation industry than 3 lent opportunities for brand visibility Etihad Cargo to increase any aviation event in Africa. through sponsorship. More infor- cooperation mation on exhibition and/or sponsor- In addition to the statutory Assembly ship is available on AFRAA website: announced 3 matters to be discussed, there shall be http://www.afraa.org/ order for Three Next- presentations and panel discussions on Generation 737-800s some topical industry subjects by air- Invitation for participation line CEOs and reputable industry ex- Interna- perts. 4 As participation is by invitation only, tional enhances global distri- bution with The AGA also avails quality time and please contact the AFRAA Secretariat opportunity for networking and busi- for an invitation to the event through Ms. Dicie Okaya: [email protected]

Engagements in Angola on currency repatriation challenges MRJ touches down at Le 4 Bourget Airport

AFRAA, IATA, AASA dele- FLYHT Aerospace Solu- 4 gation with TAAG Angola tions Ltd. receives U.S. Airlines CEO and Chief Com- patent for FLYHT Stream mercial Officer at TAAG Angola Airlines headquarters Amadeus launches ad- 5 vanced data analytics suite in June 2017 to boost travel destinations

E190 jet receives South 5 African CAA type certifica- tion

In view of the current critical situation being allocation to the Airlines so that they can Angola is among the countries have faced by airlines operating to Angola re- repatriate their sales as necessary every been experiencing budgetary revenue Air Senegal SA to launch 5 garding delayed/blocked funds, a delegation month. losses and balance of payments pres- operations with two ATR comprising of IATA, AFRAA, AASA and The delegation called on the authorities to sures due to the dip in commodity and 72-600s airlines had a 2-day working visit to Angola prioritize aviation among the other sectors oil prices. The authorities were recep- AFRAA Training on 27 and 28 June 2017. of the economy in their foreign exchange tive to the huge economic and social 6 allocations and to make the allocations to benefits of aviation industry. Further The IATA-led delegation met the authorities airlines that were regular, consistent and engagements will take place on possi- to request on behalf of the airlines operating transparent. ble solutions for review and implemen- to Angola an increase in foreign exchange tation by the Government of Angola. Issued by the African Airlines Association Volume 9, Issue 6 Page 2 AFRICAN AIRLINES EgyptAir receives 5th Kenya Airways signs extended codeshare agreement with EgyptAir B737-800 NG enya Airways signed a Kenya Airways Group Managing Direc- 1968 and within the context of our codeshare agreement with tor and CEO Sebastian Mikosz said: continuous efforts to offer seamless gyptAir received 5th B737-800 EgyptAir, on the Nairobi- “As COMESA member countries, this transfers to our customers, EgyptAir NG. The 5th new aircraft, with Cairo route, in a bid to partnership enhances bilateral trade as has initiated the partnership with Ken- registration SU-GEJ, arrived in K well as enabling both carriers to offer ya Airways as a foundation for future improve connectivity to Egypt in North- Cairo International Airport to E ern Africa. customers seamless connectivity be- commercial operational opportunities join the national carrier's fleet. This plane tween Kenya and Egypt, especially for between both airlines. The cooperation is the 65th in the fleet and 25th of the The agreement will see EgyptAir load our passengers in the region who main- also reinforces our commitment to- same type. Kenya Airways flight code on the Egyp- ly travel for business and leisure. Our wards our customers by increasing the

tian carriers’ four flights between Cairo guests will now be able to enjoy flights range of destinations all around the In another development, Boeing held its and Nairobi. This will allow Kenya to Cairo either directly from Nairobi or world with seamless connectivity”. annual Ramadan volunteer activity in Airways; to resume direct market access through Entebbe or Khartoum. As Afri- Source: Kenya Airways Egypt for the second consecutive year at between Nairobi and Cairo since August can Airlines, partnerships are our big- the Al-Kasr Al-Ainy Hospital in Cairo. 2013 when its own operations were gest opportunity as we seek to sustaina- This year, Boeing and EgyptAir joined suspended. The codeshare partnership bly develop Africa. This is indeed in hands to double the number of volunteers will initially cover 6 routes enhancing line with the core purpose of Kenya to provide care packages for children and passengers travel opportunities through- Airways”, said Sebastian. their families at the hospital. out the region. These will include Cairo,

Istanbul, Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar es The Chairman and CEO EgyptAir Mr. Safwat Musallam, Chairman, and Salaam, Lusaka and Harare. Holding, Mr. Safwat Musallam stated CEO, EgyptAir Holding said: “Our rela- that “As a member of AFRAA since

tionship with Boeing goes back many decades and we are delighted to partner ASKY recognized at the Balafon Award of Excellence with them in this volunteer activity which SKY Airlines was recog- day July 29, 2016 in Accra (Ghana) and will bring smiles and happiness to many nized as the best Airline in “Airline of the Year Award for Region- In another development, ASKY patients and their families during this West Africa at the Balafon al Operations” at the African Airlines announced the commencement of Holy Month. We are pleased to share the Award of Excellence Association (AFRAA) 48th Annual daily flights between Lagos, Accra same values as Boeing and prioritize the A General Assembly held on November and Abuja starting July, 2017. (ACCRA WEIZO) held in Accra, Ghana wellbeing of our community through in May 2017 in Accra (Ghana). This 20-22, 2016 at Victoria Falls in Zimba- These new routes offers more capac- Ramadan which gives us an excellent award recognizes the airline’s remarkable bwe. ity and flexibility with a significant opportunity to fulfil our obligations at performance and its growth plan. In March 2017, the airline was recog- reduction in flight time between multiple levels to reach out and serve.” nized as the “Air Quality and Comfort Lagos, Accra, Abuja and the entire Source: EgyptAir It is to be recalled that ASKY was named Air Transport Awards” by the FOGE- 2014 “African Company of the Year” by CA (Forum Economique et Gala de the Africa CEO Forum and as the “2014 l’intégration Africaine) held in , Best Short Haul Carrier (West Africa) Sénégal. and Best Short Haul Airline (Africa)” by the Africa Travel Awards. ASKY Airlines wishes to thank its esteemed customers for their vote of In 2016, the airline was named the “Most confidence and pledges to work even Promising Airline of the Year” during harder to avail to them the best possible regional air connectivity and travel the Ghana Aviation Award held on Fri- Photo: ASKY Photo: EgyptAir experience. Issued by the African Airlines Association Volume 9, Issue 6 Page 3 AFRICAN AIRLINES Mauritania Airlines Ethiopian Airlines wins SKYTRAX World Airline Award announce order for Boeing thiopian Airlines announced the strong vote of confidence in the During the event, Mr. Tewolde said: 737 MAX 8 that it won SKYTRAX World global survey. It will motivate us to “Ethiopian flights to Singapore will oeing and Mauritania Airlines Airline Award for The Best continue to invest time, energy and have a paramount importance in en- announced an order for one Airline in Africa in June 2017 money on the four pillars of our vision hancing economic, cultural, and social E 2025 with sharp focus in customer 737 MAX 8 airplane at the at the Paris Air Show. ties between Asia and Africa, and the 2017 Paris Air Show. The service across the value chain”. two countries in particular”. Source: B While receiving the award, Mr. Tewolde Ethiopian Airlines order, valued at $112.4 million at list prices, was previously attributed to an GebreMariam Group CEO Ethiopian In another development, Ethiopian unidentified customer on the Boeing Or- Airlines said; “We are thrilled that Airlines marked the commencement of ders & Deliveries website. Skytrax has honoured Ethiopian Airlines five weekly direct and non-stop services with The Best Airline in Africa award. I to Singapore at a reception ceremony Mr. Mohamed Radhi Bennahi, CEO, am very happy that Ethiopian has won held in May, 2017 at Addis Ababa Bole Mauritania Airlines said: “The 737 MAX the award as the Best Airline in Africa Airport. The event was graced by Mr. will complement our growing fleet and is based on customer survey. This is a very Tewolde GebreMariam, members of the perfect aircraft for short to medium- strong testimony that in line with our Transport Affairs Standing Committee haul operations across the Sahel region vision 2025, our heavy investment in from the House of People's Representa- and Europe, feeding traffic into our hub customer service, Human Resource tives, aviation partner organizations, airport at . This aircraft will Development, modern fleet, infrastruc- travel Agencies, Ethiopian executive play a major role in growing our business ture and ICT has resulted in the desired management and other invited guests. in the years to come.” customer delight which is expressed by Van Rex Gallard, Vice President of Sales Photo: Ethiopian Airlines for Africa, Latin America and the Carib- bean, Boeing Commercial Airplanes said: Royal Air Maroc Cargo and Etihad Cargo to increase cooperation “This order is yet another endorsement for oyal Air Maroc Cargo and Vice President Cargo, Royal Air Maroc. ly in the African and the American the 737 MAX from one of our African Etihad Cargo have signed a Abdelhamid Addou, Chief Executive markets. Royal Air Maroc Cargo will customers. We look forward to delivering Memorandum of Under- Officer of the Moroccan national airline, also benefit from Etihad Cargo’s this first 737 MAX to Mauritania later this R standing (MOU) which will also attended the signing ceremony. operational and technological know- year.” Source: Boeing see the two airlines cooperate in a num- how.” Source: Group ber of areas including network develop- Mr El Farissi said: “We are very pleased ment, freighter deployment and increas- to strengthen our existing partnership ing traffic on several trade lanes over the with Etihad Cargo through this agree- next nine months. ment. The signature of this MOU is a milestone for our long-term cooperation. The MOU was signed at Royal Air Thanks to the geographic and commer- Maroc’s headquarters in by cial synergies which will result from this David Kerr, Senior Vice President, game-changing partnership, we will take Etihad Cargo, and Amine El Farissi, our performance to the next level, main- Photo: Boeing Photo: Royal Air Maroc expands RwandAir to start flights to Brussels Airport in July 2017 codeshare network to Bei- wandAir announced the and the administrative capital of the for both continents with smooth con- jing commencement of non-stop European Union, is mainly known for nections from cities with high demand flights from Kigali to Brus- centuries of history, renaissance archi- and will go a long way in boosting ir Seychelles expanded its R sels, in Belgium effective tecture and monuments. The city’s main trade and tourism”. The new route codeshare agreement with July 2017. All returning flights from attractions include the Grand-Place, an takes RwandAir’s network to 23 desti- to offer trav- Brussels to Kigali will be via London. UNESCO World Heritage Site, the nations. Source: RwandAir A ellers easy one-stop connec- With the new three flights a week be- Bronzed Manneken-Pis and admirable tions to the Chinese capital of Beijing, tween Brussels and Kigali, which will green spaces such as the “Parc du Cin- effective June 2017. be operated by the airline's Airbus A330 quantenaire”, Belgian Independence The codeshare route is Air Seychelles’s fleet configured in a triple class cabin Monument. fourth codeshare connection with Etihad and equipped with inflight connectivity, Airways in East Asia after Hong Kong, RwandAir offers a differentiated prod- Mr. Chance Ndagano, the Acting CEO Seoul in South Korea, and Tokyo and uct in terms of passenger comfort and of RwandAir said: “Adding Brussels to Nagoya in Japan. convenience. our fast growing network, reaffirms our Roy Kinnear CEO of Air Seychelles said: Brussels, Belgium’s fascinating capital commitment to create new opportunities “Our new codeshare route with Etihad Photo: Rwandair Airways provides guests with convenient travel options to Beijing and reinforces Tassili Airlines announced order for Three Next-Generation 737-800s the strong political and economic rela- tions between Seychelles and China. oeing and Tassili Airlines Africa with mainland Europe. This ered in 2011. The 737's unmatched Nearly 6,000 travellers from China have announced an order for three order signifies an important next step in performance and dispatch reliability visited our shores this year, and we are Next-Generation 737-800 the development of the airline as we are crucial for Tassili's scheduled and working hand-in-hand with our tourism B airplanes, valued at over look to the future, adding additional charter operations, flying to and from a partners to grow this number further.” $294 million at list prices, at the 2017 capacity on to existing and new routes very challenging environment across Source: Air Seychelles Paris Air Show. The order was previous- across the Maghreb, into France and North Africa." Source: Boeing ly attributed to an unidentified customer beyond.” on Boeing's Orders & Deliveries web- site. Van Rex Gallard, Vice President of Mr. Belkacem Harchaoui, CEO of Tas- Sales for Africa, Latin America and the sili Airlines said: “The 737 has played a Caribbean, Boeing Commercial Air- critical role in the development of Tas- planes said: “We are pleased that Tassili sili Airlines. We have grown from an oil Airlines continues to show its commit- charter operation to become a scheduled ment to the 737 following its first order passenger airline, connecting North with us for four 737-800s which deliv- Photo: Air Seychelles Photo: Boeing Issued by the African Airlines Association Volume 9, Issue 6 Page 4 AFRICAN AIRLINES MTU Maintenance Canada Mauritania Airlines International enhances global distribution with Hahn Air and sign exclusive ahn Air announced the start Mauritania Airlines International will tania Airlines International into our engine accessories contract of an interline partnership join Hahn Air’s network of more than network of partner carriers, further TU Maintenance and Vo- with Mauritania Airlines 300 air, rail and shuttle partners benefit- broadening our presence in the Afri- laris signed an exclusive H International. This agree- ing from Hahn Air’s distribution ser- can market with now 49 partners. five-year contract for the ment enables Mauritania Airlines to tap vices. Under the agreement, Mauritania management of the carri- into new markets where they are not a Mohamed Radhy Bennahi, CEO of International Airlines will benefit from M member of the local Billing and Settle- Mauritania Airlines International said: additional ticket sales and our travel er’s V2500 engine accessories. The agree- ment covers accessory repair and coordi- ment Plan (BSP). Thereby, Mauritania “With this new cooperation, we aim to agent partners will have access to yet nation during engine shop visits on a fixed Airlines International expands its com- access new streams of revenue whilst another carrier whose tickets they -price basis. Services will be performed at mercial reach to over 100,000 travel giving passengers worldwide the oppor- would normally not be able to issue.” MTU’s Maintenance accessory repair agencies in 190 markets worldwide tunity to benefit from our travel offer- Source: Hahn Air center of excellence in British Columbia, while its flights are now available on the ings in Africa and beyond.” Canada. This new agreement builds on the HR-169 ticket in the Global Distribution Steve Knackstedt, Vice President of the outstanding business relationship that the Systems (GDSs) Amadeus and Galileo. Airline Business Group at Hahn Air two companies have shared since 2013. said: “We are proud to welcome Mauri-

MTU Maintenance is the service provider MRJ touches down at Le Bourget Airport for the V2500 family of engine models itsubishi Heavy Industries the Le Bourget Airport on June 15. This soak, high speed flutter and flight with over 4,300 shop visits on the engine (MHI) and Mitsubishi is the first trip to the European continent load survey tests. Details on all these family since 1989. As part of its compre- Aircraft Corporation made by the MRJ. The aircraft conduct- tests and future updates on MRJ hensive engine services, MTU Mainte- announced that the third ed the ferry flight to Paris from Moses development can be found at http:// nance provides specialized LRU and M Flight Test Aircraft (FTA-3) of the Lake via Winnipeg and Goose Bay, progress.flythemrj.com/. Source: accessory management and support. Its in- Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) landed at Canada and Keflavik, Iceland. MRJ house repair and test capabilities range the Le Bourget Airport near Paris on from fuel components such as pumps, fuel June 15. FTA-3 will be on static display The MRJ recently received the type controls, actuators and electrical compo- at the 52nd International Paris Air Show. certification for its PW1200G geared nents to pneumatic components that in- turbofan engine, capping several notable clude valves and starters. Source: MTU FTA-3 took off from the Moses Lake program testing milestones that have Flight Test Center, Grant County Inter- been accomplished in recent months, national Airport in the State of Washing- including static strength, company light- ton, U.S.A., on June 13, and arrived at ning, initial natural icing, cold and hot FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. receives U.S. patent for FLYHT Stream Airbus and China to en- LYHT Aerospace Solutions valuable information from the aircraft, Automated Flight Information Re- hance cooperation in avia- Ltd. announced the receipt of a possibly to even prevent a future acci- porting System (AFIRSTM) which patent from the United States dent? We extended the capabilities of hosts services that save aircraft opera- tion and aerospace F Patent and Trademark Office our system and this patent was filed. tors money, streamline their opera- for FLYHT’s emergency data streaming Having this patent granted marks an tions and proactively enhance safety, irbus and China have signed a technology which has been initially important milestone for our Company as which prevents accidents and can Memorandum of Understand- ing (MoU) on aviation and enabled in a commercial software prod- we continue to protect our intellectual save lives. The patent title is Aircraft aerospace, further enhancing uct called FLYHTStreamTM. property and expand our exclusive offer- Flight Data Delivery and Manage- A ings to our customers in the aviation ment System with Emergency Mode, a spirit of cooperation. The MoU was signed in Berlin by Fabrice Brégier, Air- Kent Jacobs, FLYHT’s first employee industry.” US 9,602,187 B2 and is dated March bus COO and President of Commercial who jointly filed the patent application 21, 2017. Source: FLYHT Aircraft, and He Lifeng, Chairman of the back in 2010 said: “During the extended FLYHTStream is commercially availa- National Development and Reform Com- search for AF447 it became clear to ble and is a solution which augments the mission (NDRC) of China. FLYHT that there was a problem to on-board flight data recorders and flight The MoU strengthens and deepens mutu- solve. Could real-time communications voice recorders. FLYHTStream is a ally beneficial collaboration between be used to send data to locate and get software service that is enabled by the Airbus and Chinese aviation industry in various fields. Based on an already estab- Bombardier unveils Ethiopian Airlines as Customer for Q400 Aircraft lished solid foundation, Airbus and China ombardier Commercial tials and passenger comfort, especially are working very hard to modernize will support the development of engineer- Aircraft announced that with its cabin flexibility for single and their operations to meet the challenges ing skills and technology innovation in Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise dual-class passenger configuration. The of tomorrow and we are committed to China and also promote the integration of is the previously undisclosed Q400 aircraft shines in terms of climb helping with the aircraft and technical Chinese suppliers into Airbus’ global B customer that signed a firm purchase rate, single-engine ceiling, and greater support they require.” supply chain. agreement for five additional Q400 revenue-producing payload capability

turboprop aircraft. Based on the list from our hot weather, high altitude Ethiopian Airlines’ initial order for Mr. Fabrice Brégier, Airbus COO and price of the Q400 aircraft, the contract is airstrips, these performance attributes eight Q400 aircraft plus four options President of Commercial Aircraft said: valued at approximately $162 million being critical to interchangeability with was announced on November 20, “Together with our Chinese partners, we US. our jet fleet.” 2008. Four re-orders directly and are confident in meeting the new chal- through Palma Capital, including the lenges and opportunities and look for- Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Jean-Paul Boutibou, Vice President, one announced on June 9, increase the ward to an even deeper and broader part- Ethiopian Airline said: “We are reorder- Sales, Middle East and Africa, Bom- airline’s Q400 aircraft fleet to 24 air- nership.” Source: Airbus ing the Bombardier Q400 turboprop as it bardier Commercial Aircraft said: “The craft, the largest in Africa. Source: is the core element in serving our ex- airline market in Africa has been grow- Bombardier panding domestic and regional destina- ing slowly but steadily as the industry is tions. No other turboprop airliner match- becoming more liberalized and the es its 360-knot speed capability, low infrastructure to support the growth is operating costs, environmental creden- being put in place. Airlines in Africa Issued by the African Airlines Association Volume 9, Issue 6 Page 4 AFRICAN AIRLINES Rolls-Royce wins $1.5bn Amadeus launches advanced data analytics suite to boost travel destinations Trent XWB order from estination Marketing Organ- of travel trends. Ethiopian Airlines isations (DMOs) have in the Pascal Clement, Head of Travel Intel- past been bound by data The latest product suite from Amadeus’ ligence, Amadeus, said: “Destinations olls-Royce won a major order D such as visitor numbers Travel Intelligence division, Destination that can understand today’s travellers from Ethiopian Airlines to only after the year is complete, as report- Insight, aims to put DMOs in the know through data, and respond with target- provide Trent XWB engines ed in Amadeus’ recent paper ‘Smart with analysis of up-to-date travel data, ed, effective campaigns will be well- for ten new Airbus A350-900 decisions for smart destinations using removing some of the guesswork often placed to capitalise on changing trav- R big data’. But this has meant DMOs involved when making key marketing eller preferences”. Source: Amadeus aircraft with TotalCare® service support, further increasing its order book for new have been less able to take proactive decisions. By analysing billions of up-to engines. In addition, the order includes decisions to attract travellers. To do so, -date global air travel transactions in TotalCare for 14 of the aircraft already in DMOs need to know what potential near real time, the suite can reveal hid- service or on order. In total, the deal is visitors want, which rival destinations den opportunities for DMOs to boost valued at $1.5 billion at list prices. they compete with and how to get ahead their destinations’ growth.

Tewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive Boeing signs commitment with unidentified customer for 125 737 MAX 8 Airplanes Officer, Ethiopian Airlines, said: “We oeing signed an agreement Global Sales and Marketing, Boeing According to Boeing's new 2017 have been impressed by the performance with an unidentified major Commercial Airplanes said: “We con- Current Market Outlook, airlines of both aircraft and engines in service, airline customer for 125 737 tinue to see great demand for the 737 around the world will require more which gave us confidence to go forward MAX 8 airplanes, valued at MAX family of airplanes across all than 41,000 airplanes over the next with our order for ten additional aircraft B 20-years. The single-aisle segment more than $14 billion at list prices. The regions around the world and today's which will bring even greater levels of agreement also includes purchase rights announcement is a testament to the will see the most growth, with nearly comfort and service to our customers.” for an additional 50 airplanes. The growth of our market. The market- three-quarters of new airplanes deliv- Source: Rolls-Royce agreement will be reflected on the Boe- leading capabilities of the 737 MAX in eries needed over the next two dec- ing Orders and Deliveries website once terms of efficiency, reliability and pas- ades. Source: Boeing finalized. senger comfort, will continue to drive profitability for our customers.” Ihssane Mounir, Senior Vice President,

GECAS orders 100 E190 jet receives South African CAA type certification A320neo aircraft he E190 received type certifi- Already a significant Embraer custom- “This certification opens new oppor- cation from South Africa’s er, recently decided to add a tunities for the aircraft, which has E Capital Aviation Services Civil Aviation Authority. further 11 ERJ 140s to their fleet and already attained significant success in (GECAS), the commercial Airlink, southern Africa’s will soon operate 30 Embraer Regional other regions of the world. I’m confi- T dent that very soon we will see even aircraft leasing and financing regional airline, recently took delivery of Jets of all three types - ERJ 135, ERJ G arm of General Electric their first E190 which will soon go into 140 and the ERJ 145 – the delivery of more E-Jets flying through the pictur- signed a firm order for 100 A320neo service. Type certification opens up new which will be completed by mid-2018. esque skies of South Africa.” Source: Family aircraft at the 52nd International opportunities for the aircraft in South Embraer Paris Air Show. GECAS has selected Africa. Embraer sees a market for around Reinaldo Krugner, Vice President for CFM’s LEAP-X engine for all 100 50 jets within Embraer product category Africa, Latin America & Portugal, A320neo Family aircraft. over the next decade. Embraer Commercial Aviation said:

This new order brings the total number of Pratt & Whitney Canada signs agreement to supply its PW150C engine to Airbus aircraft ordered by GECAS to almost 600 aircraft. Of these 220 are power the MA700 Aircraft A320neo Family aircraft. ratt & Whitney Canada Frédéric Lefebvre, Vice President, Mar- rials and manufacturing processes, (P&WC) signed an agreement keting, P&WC said: “The PW150C including a third-stage power turbine, Alec Burger, President and CEO of to supply its latest PW150 turboprop engine continues to build on a modified reduction gearbox to sup- GECAS said: “The A320neo aircraft is an engine family powerplant - the the proven PW150A engine architecture port the aircraft's larger-diameter excellent product. GECAS is pleased to P propellers and an optimized low- PW150C - to power the AVIC Aircraft and will incorporate the latest technolo- make this additional commitment for MA700 aircraft. Since the selection of gies to deliver performance and fuel pressure compressor.” Source: Pratt & A320neos to meet strong customer de- the PW150C for the new regional turbo- efficiency to the newly designed MA700 Whitney mand for this type. The A320neo family prop, P&WC has invested significantly aircraft. Enhancements we have built aircraft powered by CFM’s LEAP-1A in the engine's development to support into the PW150C engine include advan- engines, with now proven increased fuel its integration into the airframe. ced high-efficiency technologies, mate- efficiencies, longer range and higher seating capacity will continue to be one of our core assets in our lease portfolio. Air Senegal SA to launch operations with two ATR 72-600s The A321 version has also gained strong acceptance from customers in various ir Senegal SA signed a Delivery of these two turboprop aircraft, market forecasts, Africa and the new markets proving the versatility of the contract for a firm order of which will constitute the initial fleet of Middle East should need 300 turbo- type.” Source: Airbus two ATR 72-600s at the the airline, will be made in November prop aircraft by 2035, and 400 new Paris Air Show. With an 2017. Air Senegal SA’s inauguration routes should be created. With the A ceremony will be held in December ATRs, Senegalese passengers will estimated value of approximately 50 million euros at catalogue price, the 2017, in conjunction with the inaugura- benefit from a transport offer that will contract was formalised in the presence tion of the new Blaise Diagne Interna- generate many business opportuni- of Maimouna Ndoye Seck, Senegal’s tional Airport in Diass, located some 50 ties, thereby helping to boost the Minister for Tourism and Air Transport kilometers from Dakar. local economy.” Source: ATR and Elisabeth Borne, French Minister for Christian Scherer, ATR’s Chief Execu- Transport. tive Officer said: “According to our

Issued by the African Airlines Association Volume 9, Issue 6 Page 6 AFRICAN AIRLINES n the month of June, AFRAA held the following courses: AFRAA Training

pcoming courses and Seminars:

I In conjunction with IATA Airline Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Training Fund, AFRAA will host both the Executive Management and Free course in Aviation Internal personnel of on 20 – 23 U Audit (17 – 21 July) and Root Cause Anal- June. The course focused on best practic- ysis (11 – 15 September). The two courses are es to improve SMS using modern commu- open to all African Airlines. For further infor- nication strategy as well as risk manage- mation, contact Elin Bukhala, ebukha- ment techniques. A total of 32 participants [email protected]. Limited slots attended the courses. AFRAA shall be hosting Security Workshop

scheduled on 1 – 2 August in Nairobi at the The personnel of participat- Kenya Airways Pride Center. Airlines, Air- ed in in-house training the Refresher ports, Civil Aviation and other stakeholders courses for Dangerous Goods Regula- are welcome to attend and deliberate key tions and Weight and Balance for the issues in aviation security. For registration Participants who attended Airline Document Systems and Control on operational personnel. please contact Ms. Dicie Okaya, 30 May – 2 June, 2017 [email protected], Cc [email protected]

African Airlines Other Carriers June 2017 % African flights seats % Other flights seats Carriers Carriers Intra Africa 95267 8140379 91.49% 4,231 757,268 8.51% Africa Europe 6,381 1,088,201 38.82% 8,365 1,715,136 61.18% Africa - N. America 285 81,824 67.45% 160 39,492 32.55% Africa - M. East 4,174 786,878 41.02% 4,780 1,131,297 58.98% Africa - Asia 786 199,963 86.67% 116 30,756 13.33% 106,893 10,297,245 17,652 3,673,949 June 2016 Intra Africa 80,537 7,643,745 95.68% 3,633 686,081 4.32% Africa Europe 5,646 932,743 42.55% 7622 1553668 57.45% Africa - N. America 301 88,311 59.49% 205 47,967 40.51% Africa - M. East 4239 776835 47.22% 4,739 1,093,199 52.78% Africa - Asia 746 172,962 86.85% 113 30,861 13.15% TOTAL 91,469 9,614,596 16,312 3,411,776 June 2017 June 2016

Source: AFRAA/OAG Source: AFRAA/OAG

NB: Data is for all Passenger flights, both non-stop and flights with stops About AFRAA AFRAA, is a trade organization of Airlines from the member states of the African Union (AU) whose aim is to foster commercial and technical cooperation for airlines and represent their common interest. Founded in Accra, Ghana in April, 1968, and currently headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the Association members represent 83% of total intercontinental traffic carried by African Airlines. For more information, visit: www.afraa.org

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