IATA calls for safer skies and affordable flights

Planes at Kigali International airport. Africa’s commercial airlines have had a good record in the past two years. PHOTO | CYRIL DEGEYA | NMG

Africa has made significant progress towards safer skies, but governments need to show more commitment to reform if the gains are to be sustained.

Speaking at the annual general assembly of the African Airlines Association in Rabat last week, IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac said that, for the first time in decades, Africa had gone two years without a single fatality from a commercial jet accident.