Growth Archives - Aviation metric

AASA urges immediate execution to unlock Africa’s aviation growth potential

Posted on October 13, 2026 by Wole Shadare

For decades, a frustrating paradox has shaped African aviation: endless potential held back by an unwillingness to act. Across the continent, civil aviation authorities, governments, and industry leaders have spent years attending high-level summits, commissioning costly consultancy studies, and signing ambitious blueprints. Yet, many of these strategies remain locked in file cabinets while air transport across the continent operates far below its full capacity. The Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) has now issued…

Opinion: Nigeria’s Aviation Sector Soars: Modernisation, Strategic Partnerships Drive New Era of Growth

Posted on December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 by Wole Shadare

By Gboyega Adeoye Nigeria’s aviation sector is undergoing a significant renaissance, marked by ambitious infrastructure upgrades, strategic policy shifts, and a renewed commitment to passenger safety and service delivery. Despite global economic headwinds, the country’s airspace is seeing growth, modernisation, and the practical implementation of public-private partnership (PPP) models to unlock billions in revenue and solidify Nigeria’s status as a regional aviation hub. The current momentum is driven by investments across major airports, including the…

‘Africa’s challenged despite potential for growth’

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Wole Shadare

A former Assistant Secretary-General of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Alhaji Muhammed Tukur said Africa as a region, has experienced an increasing demand for air travel, driven by a rising middle class, growing international business relationships, and the increasing importance of tourism. Despite these favourable factors, he noted that the aviation industry in the continent has faced numerous hurdles such as insufficient infrastructure, safety concerns, regulatory inefficiencies, and fragmented air travel networks that often limit intra-Africa…

Inconsistent unified central data system inhibits aviation, travel policies, growth, says Bernard

Posted on August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 by Wole Shadare

FCM boss, Adejoju harps resilience in corporate travel resilience amid economic downturn The Group Managing Director of Finchglow Holdings, Bankole Bernard has lamented the inconsistent data from various agencies of aviation is impeding industry growth, adding that a central data system would solve 50% of our challenges, providing a reliable foundation for policy formulation and business planning. Bernard made the disclosure last week as one of the panellists at the 28th annual conference of the…

Nigeria identifies wet lease, others as obstacles to carriers’ growth

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Wole Shadare

NANTA seeks Minister’s intervention in travel trade market Trans-boarder ticket sales shrink domestic market by 40% For many years, Nigerian airlines have been faced with the challenge of getting aircraft on a dry-lease agreement which has put enormous strain on their operations as airplanes are only available to the operators on a wet-lease basis with huge attendant costs. Faced with the situation that has led to the shrinking of the country’s domestic aviation market…

Amid Africa’s 2% global cargo market, region sees 14.2% year-on-year demand growth

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Africa, which accounts for 2.0% of the global air cargo market saw 14.2% year-on-year demand growth for air cargo. The clearing house for more than 300 global airlines just released its latest y-o-y analysis of the air cargo market (a very useful barometer of trade) based on capacity (supply) and traffic (demand) in March 2024 stated that demand in Africa–Asia market increased to 22.9%, however, this was a…

Brand new aircraft: Aviation in Nigeria faces historical changes, growth

Posted on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 by Wole Shadare

In the recent past, there have been remarkable transformations in the airline industry, which have influenced economic efficiency and the high degree of competition noticed among operators as Nigerian carriers are donning the sky with brand new airplanes, writes, WOLE SHADARE Historical changes The Nigerian aviation industry has continued to experience historic changes, growth, and development. Gone are the days when over 98 percent of aircraft operating in the country’s sky were over 25 and…