Hop-and-pick flights proposed as remedy for African ailing carriers
Most of Africa’s leading airlines are facing financial problems. Kenya Airways and South African Airways, for instance, haven’t made profits in nearly a decade, and have survived mainly on financial support from their respective governments. PHOTO | NMG
An African airline lobby suggests urgent wider adoption of hop-and-pick services, seeing it as a solution to ailing carriers, and as a way to ease restrictive air travel on the continent.
This, and the expanded sharing of routes were among suggestions it wants African Union member states to implement and save operators from loss.
