Raphael Kuuchi is the International Air Transport Association (IATA)’s Vice-President for Africa. He joined IATA from the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) where he was the Director of Commercial. The consummate administrator discusses a myriad of issues bedeviling the continent’s aviation industry, among others, with WOLE SHADARE, at the IATA AGM in Dublin. Excerpts
When Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg heads to the Farnborough Airshow near London next month, he’ll tackle his usual tasks: trying to win new airplane orders and more aerospace work for the U.S. manufacturing giant.
Investigators are subjecting the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jet which crashed last month to electrical tests before analysis can begin.
Two Calgary bush planes are flying to the South Pole in a rare and risky mission to rescue a worker in medical distress from a remote research station.
A Jetstar flight has been turned back to Sydney Airport and was met by emergency services after a "strange smell" was detected on board.
JQ517, which departed for Melbourne at 2.02pm on Sunday, was turned back after about 10 minutes when the smell was found.
The Airbus A321 landed on the runway about 2.30pm.
Iran and US aerospace giant Boeing have reached an agreement for the purchase of 100 aircraft to renew the country’s ageing fleet, the head of Tehran’s civil aviation authority announced today.
Ethiopian Airlines, the leading airline in connecting Africa with the rest of the World, continued its aviation technology leadership with yet another first African Airbus A350 XWB.
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese rescuers have found some pieces belonging to a search plane that went missing with nine people aboard while attempting to locate a pilot from a crashed fighter jet, the military said Friday.
Is living near an airport bad for your health? A Swedish research team recently uncovered an increase in both hypertension and asymptomatic organ damage in those who are exposed to aircraft sounds over prolonged periods of time.
Britain’s aviation watchdog is due to launch a review into hidden airlines charges after an MP raised concerns over Ryanair’s high costs of amending boarding passes and other travel documents.
Air France pilot unions SNPL, SPAF and ALTER announced late on June 17 they would strike again from June 24-27.
NASA has unveiled plans for its experimental electric plane, designated the X-57 and nicknamed "Maxwell," in the agency’s first addition to the groundbreaking ‘X series’ in a decade.
The latest update of the much-feared EU blacklist for airlines and even entire countries was published yesterday, and at least in two African countries this was cause for celebration.
Search teams on Friday recovered the second flight recorder of an EgyptAir plane from the bottom of the Mediterranean that could prove vital in establishing the cause of the unexplained crash.
Most US airlines follow the same procedure for allowing non-first-class passengers to board a plane. They let people who are sitting in the back board first, then people in the next few rows, gradually working their way toward the front.
