Author: Wole Shadare

Jumia, the leading pan-African e-commerce platform, has commenced its annual ‘brand festival’ campaign, targeted at promoting authentic products at the best prices directly from the manufacturers on the Jumia platform. The campaign, which starts on Monday, September 12th, and will run through October 2nd, 2022, offers millions of consumers nationwide the opportunity to buy original products from the official stores of several top brands such as Adidas, Samsung, Infinix, Umidigi, Nivea, DeFacto, Nestle, Bacardi, Intel/HP,…

   Emirates and United have announced a historic commercial agreement that will enhance each airline’s network and give their customers easier access to hundreds of new destinations within the United States and around the world. From November, Emirates customers flying into Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston – three of the biggest business hubs in the U.S – will be able to easily connect to United flights to and from nearly 200 cities across the Americas…

Airlines’ trapped funds in Africa hit $1.3 billion   The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it had helped to secure pledges of $30 billion to support air transport and tourism in Africa from some governments, international finance bodies, and institutions such as the African Development Bank, the African Export-Import Bank, the African Union (AU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) but noted that disappointingly, most of this relief failed to reach those in need….

With 204, 649 tonnes of cargo, Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria has been ranked among the top five air cargo airports in Africa in 2001. Nigeria is behind Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya with 363, 204 tonnes of cargo, Cairo International Airport, Egypt (333,536 tonnes), Oliver Reginald International Airport, South Africa (304, 018), and the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Ethiopia with 226, 417 tonnes of cargo that moved through the aerodromes according…

African airlines saw an 84.8% rise in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs are the standard industry measure of demand) versus a year ago; increased passenger capacity by 46.7% This is coming as they achieved a 15.5 percentage point increase in the average passenger load factor (the proportion of available seats taken up by fare-paying passengers) which climbed to 75.0%, the lowest of all regions worldwide. Also, they retained a 1.9% share of the global airline passenger…