SAATM Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/saatm/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 27 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 SAATM Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/saatm/ 32 32 African aviation ministers pursue a single continental market https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/african-aviation-ministers-pursue-a-single-continental-market/ Sun, 27 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/african-aviation-ministers-pursue-a-single-continental-market/ African aviation ministers are wrapping a meeting in Togo designed to make air travel between their countries cheaper and more efficient. They’re been asked to bring credentials enabling them to sign bilateral air service agreements. Intra African travelers all to often have to spend time and money flying north to Europe to make continental connections. […]

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African aviation ministers are wrapping a meeting in Togo designed to make air travel between their countries cheaper and more efficient.

They’re been asked to bring credentials enabling them to sign bilateral air service agreements.

Intra African travelers all to often have to spend time and money flying north to Europe to make continental connections.

It’s an expensive an time-consuming vestige of colonialism.

The Single African Air Transport Market was launched at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa last January.

Twenty five African countries, including South Africa, have signed up to it.

Since Friday their respective aviation experts have been working at achieving a single market.

The ministers have flown in to give it their seal of approval today.

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