WTM 2012 encourages home-grown African aviation links
The WTM featured a special Airlines Out of Africa session, the panel of which suggested that the vast majority of international services to the continent were from non-African carriers and that African nations need to develop the home market with greater access and participation for national African airlines.
Ethiopian Airlines’ chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam highlighted the fact that the market share of African carriers was a disproportionately small 18%. He said: “We have to work together to seize our fair share, it has to be 50/50 at least.”
He argued that Middle East carriers had been allowed to take advantage of access to individual countries, adding: “African air space is more open to non-African carriers than to African airlines.”
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