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IATA: African airlines must overcome high costs, taxation, decrepit infrastructure, others, profit razor-thin
Carriers struggle with losses, challenges surmountable The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the African airline sector must overcome many challenges, not least of which are infrastructure deficiencies, high costs, onerous taxation, and the failure to broadly implement a continent-wide multilateral traffic rights regime. IATA is excited about the continent’s airlines making a collective profit but the bad news is that it is razor-thin and well below the global benchmark with many individual…
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