Project Mawingu to double Kenyan Airways operating destinations

Kenyan airways

When the project will be fully implemented  in 2021.  The Kenyan flag carrier will increase the number of destinations by 50%

Factors contributing to this significant development:

1 -  Regional level: Kenyan flag carrier is the most important airline serving the growing economies of the East African Community  (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Uganda) .

2 - International level: As a member of the SkyTeam consortium, Kenya Airways could count on the support of the other 19 partners. In addition is going to establish soon an agreement with Etihad reinforcing its position in the Middle East.

Excerpt from  Presentation on Kenya Airways website

Second Joint Conference ICAO WCO focused on border security and facilitation of air cargo

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) concluded a joint conference on air cargo security and facilitation in Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain last Thursday where they reiterate the importance of efficient air cargo supply chain as an essential factor for international trade and world economic development.

The gathering,  taking place at the Gulf Hotel, followed the first Joint Conference hosted by Singapore in July 2012, which issued a Communiqué calling for new cooperative efforts by Customs and Civil Aviation Authorities. In this conference the proceeding focused on ways to further improve cooperation between authorities and with industry in order improve cooperation between authorities and with industry in order to strengthen aviation and border security while facilitating the flow of cargo.

Open Sky for Africa - Word Bank experts' analysis on the future of the market

Open Sky for Africa is a publication released by  the World Bank in 2010. The document written  by Charles E. Schlumberger, the principal Bank  specialist on air transportation, depicts the current  situation of the market and set the scene for the full implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision on the liberalization of access to air transport markets in Africa (UNECA, 1999). The Decision reached by the states  signatories of the Abuja Treaty and parties to the Yamoussoukro Declaration convening again in Cote Ivoire to set out an effective strategy for the creation of a real intra-African aviation market. Dr. Schlumberger reviews the status of implementation of the international instrument at regional level and identifies four main elements that require further attention by the side of the party states to ensure the full implementation of the Declaration:

• Development of competition rules and consumer protection rights;
• Implemention formal arbitration procedures;
• The monitoring body (Article 9.1, Decision) which has already been created, starts functioning by meeting regularly (Adis Ababa and Sun City) to supervise and follow up on implementation of theYamoussoukro Decision (progress at low pace); and
• Establishing an executing agency (already identified in the African Civil Aviation Commission). (excerpt from the book, p.32)

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At the moment 8 African states—Djibouti, Eritrea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Africa, and Swaziland — for different commercial, political or economic interests remain uncommitted to any obligations to liberalize air transportation according to the Yamoussoukro Decision on either a continental or a regional level.