Uganda Airlines has taken to the skies once more after almost two decades out of...
NAIROBI - Uganda Airlines has taken to the skies once more after almost two decades out of action, but flies into a crowded aviation market in Africa where carriers have the weakest finances and emptiest planes of any region in the world.
But such efforts have been hampered by high business costs as well as protectionism, which has impeded a continental open-skies agreement - something industry experts say is vital for the success of African carriers in a tough market. Last year, it looked like Africa was making progress on an open-skies agreement - the Single African Air Transport Market - to let airlines decide how frequently they fly between cities and which aircraft they use.
“The most subsidized airlines and the biggest ones are going to take the biggest market share because they able to afford it,” Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz told an investor briefing on Tuesday. “They are going to kill the smaller national airlines which are just starting because they will have no way to defend themselves.”
More recently, Ethiopian has been helping other countries launch their own carriers and taking a stake. That has created regional continental hubs in Togo, Malawi and Chad where it can pick up and feed traffic into its main hub in Addis Ababa, cementing its dominance and rivaling Gulf carriers. Emirates builds traffic through its global Dubai hub, an advantage most African airlines don’t have - except Ethiopian Airlines.In Europe, a passenger can travel 1.5 hours for less than $100 all-inclusive. In Africa, passenger taxes alone range from $40 to $150 per passenger, African Airlines Association Secretary General Abderahmane Berthe told Reuters.
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