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Oqubay, A. and Tesfachew, T. (2019) The Journey of Ethiopian Airlines: Technological Learning and Catch-Up in Aviation. In: Oqubay, A. and Ohno, K., Eds., How Nations Learn: Technological Learning, Industrial Policy, and Catch-Up, Oxford Academic, 235-261.
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• TITLE: Strategies for the Airline Industry on the African Continent

  AUTHORS: Tilmann Gabriel

  KEYWORDS: African Aviation, SAATM, African Air Transport Industry, African Airlines, NetZero

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Transportation Technologies, Vol.15 No.1, December 13, 2024

  ABSTRACT: African Aviation continues to fall short of serving the demands of the fast-growing African population. For major air transport in and out of the African continent, African travellers rely mainly on non-African Airlines. There is, however, one successful airline on the continent at the writing of this paper: Ethiopian Airlines and the Ethiopian Aviation Group. Why are no further successful airlines possible on a continent of 1.4 billion people (25% of the world’s population) and only a 2%-share of global air transport? At the introduction of SAATM, which is anticipated as the start of the domestic African aviation boom, most African countries seem unprepared to build a success story like Ethiopia. Transportation infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa does not start with roads and rail but with runways and airlines. This research investigates the basic requirements needed to equip Africa with a competitive aviation industry that would contribute some 5% to the continent’s GDP and create hundreds of thousands of workplaces. Interviews with African SAATM leaders signal a slowdown in the effort to succeed. The research is also concerned about the lack of inclusion in the implementation of a NetZero CO2 emission scheme in Africa.