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An African airline has the fifth youngest fleet of airplane on the planet, air travel database and news company ch-aviation has actually reported, in its “World’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet 2023” award report, released on Tuesday. The report uses data that was valid on December 31 in 2015. Any operators with fewer than five airplane were excluded from the study. VIP-configured airplane were also left out from the survey. The African carrier is Uganda Airlines, whose airliners have a typical age of 3.01 years. The airline with the youngest fleet on the planet, therefore the winner of ch-aviation’s World’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award 2023, is Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines, with an average aircraft age of just 1.22 years. The other 3 airline companies in the top five are Saudi Arabian carrier flyadeal (second, with an average airplane age of 2.56 years), Canada’s Lynx Air (third, 2.9 years), and Chile’s SKY Airline (4th, 2.94 years).

The airspace over and around Somalia was reclassified as Class A at one minute past midnight on Thursday early morning. This marked the functional repair of air traffic control (ATC) services in Somalia and the surrounding airspace over the Indian Ocean– officially called the Mogadishu Flight Information Region (FIR)– for the first time in 30 years. Busy airways linking Africa south of Ethiopia to the Middle East and South Asia, and linking Europe with South Asia and the Indian Ocean islands, travel through the Mogadishu FIR. This development has been welcomed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the representative body of the international airline company market.

Major international aviation wet-leasing and charter services company Avion Express has highlighted the potential benefits to African airlines, recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, of employing the option of wet-leasing airliners. Wet-leasing, more formally called aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) provision, involves leasing an airliner, plus both flight and cabin crew, with the lessor also responsible for maintenance and paying insurance. The lessee airline is responsible for …

Ethiopian investigators’ report into the Boeing 737 Max crash outside Addis Ababa in 2019 incorrectly declared the jetliner had an electrical failure, the US government said, in an extremely uncommon public counterclaim of the nation’s findings about the deadly accident. The US National Transportation Safety Board accused the Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau of making claims “unsupported by evidence” in conclusions belatedly released late in 2015.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that it has finished its yearly revision of its manuals for operations, ground handling and cargo in the air transport sector. IATA is the global representative body for the airline industry. The updating of the manuals displayed, the association noted, the sector’s determination to further improve safety, adopt more sustainable operations, enhance cargo handling, and enhance the experience of airline passengers. “Aviation is a unique industry with its global footprint covering operations from mega-hubs, through regional airports to small and even remote airfields,” pointed out IATA senior VP for Commercial Products and Services Frederic Leger. “Nevertheless, the same standards and procedures need to be applied across the globe, in order to maintain smooth operations and a high level of safety. The IATA manuals are the reference materials, accurately reflecting agreed global standards, which the industry abides by.”