Aviation

ETHIOPIAN Airlines has become the first A350 XWB Simulator operator in Africa and among the few in the world.

This machine is fitted with a full electrical motion system which delivers improved performance while providing energy savings and environmental benefits.

According to the Group Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr Tewolde GebreMariam: “The introduction of the A350 XWB Full-Flight Simulator is a continuation of our pioneering role in African aviation technology.”

The Minister of Aviation, Mrs Cecilia Dapaah, has said the Ministry was doing all it could to support Africa World Airlines (AWA) to meet increased domestic demand.

AWA currently has to serve the entire domestic air transport market due to the suspension of Starbow flights.

Mrs Dapaah said while Ghana was becoming an attractive destination for international airlines, including Qatar and Air Namibia, which would start operations to Ghana this year, the country currently had a problem with its domestic air transport sector.

Minister for Aviation, Mrs Cecilia Dapaah, has given assurance that the ministry is collaborating with other stakeholders in the industry to make air transport safe and also curtail the re-occurrence of accidents in future.

She made this known on the floor of Parliament in an answer to a question which stood in the name of Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, the Minority Spokesperson on Roads and Transport and MP for Adaklu, who wanted to know the cause of the Starbow crash last year.

Mrs Dapaah said the failure by the cockpit crew of a Starbow airline to execute the correct procedures in aborting the take-off caused the plane’s crash at the Kotoka International Airport on November 25, last year.

 THE decision by South African Airways (SAA) to shift a number of its flights to low-cost subsidiary Mango, could actually benefit the state-owned airline's competitors if it results in a reduction of SAA's overall activity, according to transport economist, Dr Joachim Vermooten.

Fin24 reported earlier that, according to SAA, despite changes to its flights between Johannesburg and Durban and Johannesburg and Cape Town, in practice this did not mean a reduction in flights from a group perspective.