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    Default Astonishingly, the best-connected airport in Africa is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia, a country usually seen as the epitome of a failed state, with its wars, famines and brutal dictatorships, is in fact the best-connected country flight-wise in all of Africa. Ethiopian Airlines is rivalled only by South African Airways in being Africa's most profitable and successful airline. In addition to having flights to most African countries (except the Maghreb, strangely), it also has flights to Canada, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, most Middle Eastern countries, India, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. It is proving to be particularly important in connecting Africa with Asia, given the booming trade and growing political links between the two continents.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_...tional_Airport

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    The epitome of a contemporary failed state but historically the greatest sub saharan nation. I think the next 30 years could be bright for much of East Africa, especially with pioneers such a Rwanda providing the political-economic model and inspiration for success.

    Ethiopia is a good central location I suppose. Airports are often not as badly effected by bad governance as other infrastructure and as international business and commerce often has a lot of stake in them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellbeaking View Post
    The epitome of a contemporary failed state but historically the greatest sub saharan nation. I think the next 30 years could be bright for much of East Africa, especially with pioneers such a Rwanda providing the political-economic model and inspiration for success.
    Well it has a longer tradition of being a united civilisation than most, and was among the last African countries to be colonised. (The only African country not to be colonised at all was Liberia, a country largely founded by free American slaves, who ironically became effectively a ruling caste there).

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    1.How Ethiopian have money to buy so many new airplanes?
    2.Who have money to travel in Africa?
    3.Who are their passengers?
    ***the flight that crashed this year had many UN emplyers.
    4.Why I see on radar 24 Ethiopian planes doing internatinal flights for others african countries in all Africa? Like for example Abidjan-New York by 787.


    Adis Ababba trully surpassed Johannesburg because South Africa is very bad placed and cant be a continental Hub. Something Lagos should be... but Nigeria main Airpoet is decades behind Adias Ababa airport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    Ethiopian Airlines is rivalled only by South African Airways in being Africa's most profitable and successful airline.
    Totally wrong.

    South African Airways has been running at a loss of billions since 2011. They're hoping to break even and show at least some profit by 2021.

    The only reason why SAA is still around is because the government has bailed it out dozens of times already.

    They might as well shut it down completely. It's dead in the water.

    Cape Town - Johannesburg is one of the busiest airline routes in the world, and SAA still doesn't manage to get it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tenma de Pegasus View Post
    1.How Ethiopian have money to buy so many new airplanes?
    2.Who have money to travel in Africa?
    3.Who are their passengers?
    ***the flight that crashed this year had many UN emplyers.
    4.Why I see on radar 24 Ethiopian planes doing internatinal flights for others african countries in all Africa? Like for example Abidjan-New York by 787.


    Adis Ababba trully surpassed Johannesburg because South Africa is very bad placed and cant be a continental Hub. Something Lagos should be... but Nigeria main Airpoet is decades behind Adias Ababa airport.
    (1) Mostly government subsidies, often with Chinese and Western loans.
    (2) The elites, middle-classes and foreigners (principally Westerners, East Asians and even some South Asians).
    (3) See 2.
    (4) It is well-placed to be a hub - kind of like a tongue between the West, Africa and Asia.

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    Africa has 1,140 international flights within the continent daily; Ethiopian is #1

    African airlines generally see above-average yields and relatively low costs – with various exceptions, including user charges – that keep break-even load factors low (60%). But achieved load factors are also low, so the continent sees collective and ongoing losses.
    International routes within Africa see a 4% CAGR since 2015
    Between 2015 and 2019, two-way seats within Africa grew by 19% to 112 million, a CAGR of almost 4%. Over the next 20 years, IATA expects African aviation to see about 5% growth each year, in part from the anticipated Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).

    Since 2015, international capacity within the continent increased by over eight million seats. While an unfair comparison, for context Ryanair added almost 46 million seats in this period.
    Six airlines are responsible for 55% of international seats within Africa
    Around 95 airlines operate internationally within Africa.

    Yet only nine of these have one million or more seats a year, while 32 have 250,000+.

    In 2019, the above six airlines deliver 55% of Africa’s international seats. On an individual airline level, Ethiopian Airlines has a 22% share of all seats, up from 18% in 2015. This is partly from the development of a third wave at Addis Ababa and a strong use of wide-bodies.

    And the domination of these six airlines has been increasing almost YOY. This is especially from Ethiopian Airlines and RwandAir, which together added 4.8 million seats – or almost 60% – of the eight million added continent-wide since 2015. RwandAir stands out by doubling capacity since 2015. While it remains small, it has strong ambition, and its potential partnership with Qatar Airways may enable it to become the second- or third-largest within Africa.

    Africa’s top-ten international routes
    Mauritius – Reunion might not be the most obvious leader, but it wins by total seats. The two islands in the Indian Ocean are just 144 miles apart and flights have a block time of around 45 minutes. It does vary, but normally two or more of the nine-daily are by wide-bodies, whether Air Mauritius A340-300s or Air Austral B777-300ERs. The rest, naturally, tend to be by ATR-72s.
    Route Two-way seats in 2019
    Mauritius – Reunion 861,000
    Harare – Johannesburg 749,300
    Entebbe – Nairobi 698,400
    Addis Ababa – Nairobi 679,200
    Gaborone – Johannesburg 620,000
    Johannesburg – Nairobi 561,500
    Johannesburg – Maputo 540,500
    Entebbe – Kigali 523,100
    Harare – Lusaka 518,000
    Dar Es Salaam – Nairobi 493,500
    Source: OAG Schedules Analyser

    Mauritius – Reunion doesn’t win by frequency. With about 12-daily, Johannesburg – Gaborone, Botswana, does, helped by ~65 seats per sector from turboprops and regional jets. On a continent-wide basis, intra-Africa services have an average of 123 seats per sector. The interplay of costs, yields, load factors, and break-even load factors come into view.
    20% of intra-Africa seats with one or more stops
    Stops are important within Africa, with fifth freedoms available on many. This is an important way by which connectivity between African countries has grown and it will continue. In 2019, 20% of the 51 million international seats within Africa are from routes with one or two stops en route. There even remains a four-stop service. This is operated by Mauritania Airlines using a B737-800. It departs Nouakchott at 0700 and arrives Brazzaville at 1750 (one hour ahead, so nearly nine hours in all). It then departs at 1900 and returns to Nouakchott at 0400 the next day.


    National carriers reemerge
    National airlines have become important again, with many starting or reviving in the past couple of years. These include Air Tanzania (2016), Air Senegal (2018), Tchadia Airlines (2018 with Ethiopian Airlines) and Uganda Airlines (2019). Others are said to be coming, including an Ethiopian-backed new airline in both Ghana and Zambia, together with a new Nigerian operator: Green Africa Airways.

    The involvement of Ethiopian Airlines is significant and growing. But then it is Africa’s largest and the strongest financially. Undeniably, Africa needs more connectivity as a core part of its development, which would be helped by the implementation of the SAATM. It remains to be seen whether this materialises.

    https://www.anna.aero/2019/10/24/afr...thiopian-is-1/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calcifer View Post
    Totally wrong.

    South African Airways has been running at a loss of billions since 2011. They're hoping to break even and show at least some profit by 2021.

    The only reason why SAA is still around is because the government has bailed it out dozens of times already.

    They might as well shut it down completely. It's dead in the water.

    Cape Town - Johannesburg is one of the busiest airline routes in the world, and SAA still doesn't manage to get it right.
    Yeah, SAA has drastically cut back on its fleet recently.

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