Transportation in Madagascar
-
BOTSWANA, 2016/07/24
While Uber continues its push into Africa the company is making allowances to local markets and testing incomparable service models users wouldn’t see in other parts of the globe. Anyone can presently use the mobile app to hail a car in 12 cities across South Africa, Nigeria,Uganda, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt…. And in all of those nations users can pay drivers in hard cash.
The expansion, and adaptation to the realities of doing business on-the-ground in Africa, are in line with CEO Travis Kalanick’s commitment late last year to “a large push in Africa.”
-
BOTSWANA, 2016/05/15
An event dedicated to the development of the African aviation industry will take place next month in Tenerife (26-28 June) to encourage the launch of new air services to, from and within the African continent.
Routes Africa 2016 will help to improve African connectivity by bringing together airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss next air services. Around 250 route development professionals are expected to attend the forum which was founded ten years ago to stimulate increase in the industry.
-
MADAGASCAR, 2014/09/14
Why Air Seychelles chose September 11, a dark day in aviation history considering the events of 13 years ago, to announce the launch of flights to the Madagascar, capital of Antananarivo, may remain a mystery, but the essence is that next the proposed flights to Dar es Salaam, Madagascar, one of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands Organization founder members, will be next.
The inaugural flight is due on December 3, still subject to regulatory approvals apparently, and the route will be served initially twice a week with a two class Airbus A320 which offers 16 Business Class and 120 Economy Class seats.
The new route is bound to increase inter-island travel between the various Vanilla Islands and comes in the wake of Air Austral, Reunion’s home airline launching twice weekly flights between the island’s capital of St. Denis and Mahe at the end of June. From Reunion, all neighboring islands will be served - Mauritius, Madagascar with in fact three destinations on the island, Mayotte, the Comoros, and, of course, the Seychelles, too.
-
ANGOLA, 2013/07/03
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the world air cargo market increase continued to flat line in May, broadly following the trend of the last 18 months.
World freight tonne kilometers increased just 0.8 % in May compared to a year ago, IATA said in an official release on Wednesday.
Capacity, however, increased by 2.1 % causing load factors to fall to 44.9 % — their lowest level since the post crisis recovery.
As about 60 % of world air cargo utilizes capacity in the belly of passenger aircraft, managing capacity at a time at the same time as increase in air travel is outpacing that of cargo is particularly challenging.
