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Kenya had the highest increase of airline traffic in Africa over the last one year, following major conferences hosted in the country and a recovering tourism sector.
According to data from an industry research into air travel across the African continent, the number of passenger arrivals to Kenya since January has gone up 14.9 per cent compared to a similar period last year. “2016 has seen a good recovery in international air travel into and within Africa from the prolonged Ebola outbreak, which lasted from mid-2014 throughout 2015,” reads the report. Mauritius and South Africa saw their airline traffic grow by 11.6 and 11.4 per cent, respectively, in a year that East Africa enjoyed relatively higher airline traffic compared to other regional blocs.
“We are seeing a tale of two Africas, with North African countries suffering from political instability and terror activities and Sub-Saharan African countries powering ahead,” said Olivier Jager, the CEO of Forward Keys, a travel intelligence firm. The firm compared airline traffic across Africa by looking at the number of arrivals of airline passengers, the number of bookings and the number of scheduled commercial flights between airports within the continent.
Kenya has in the last year hosted several high profile conferences, including the Tokyo International Conference for Development (Ticad) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial heads summit that were attended by thousands of international delegates.
Read more at: Kenya leads Africa in air transport growth
According to data from an industry research into air travel across the African continent, the number of passenger arrivals to Kenya since January has gone up 14.9 per cent compared to a similar period last year. “2016 has seen a good recovery in international air travel into and within Africa from the prolonged Ebola outbreak, which lasted from mid-2014 throughout 2015,” reads the report. Mauritius and South Africa saw their airline traffic grow by 11.6 and 11.4 per cent, respectively, in a year that East Africa enjoyed relatively higher airline traffic compared to other regional blocs.
“We are seeing a tale of two Africas, with North African countries suffering from political instability and terror activities and Sub-Saharan African countries powering ahead,” said Olivier Jager, the CEO of Forward Keys, a travel intelligence firm. The firm compared airline traffic across Africa by looking at the number of arrivals of airline passengers, the number of bookings and the number of scheduled commercial flights between airports within the continent.
Kenya has in the last year hosted several high profile conferences, including the Tokyo International Conference for Development (Ticad) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial heads summit that were attended by thousands of international delegates.
Read more at: Kenya leads Africa in air transport growth