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BEST REGIONAL AIRLINE ROYAL AIR MAROC WILL

JOIN ONEWORLD

ir Mauritius received the OR Tam- oyal Air Maroc will join the One-
Abo Internati onal Airport award Rworld alliance on March 31, 2020,
for the top performing regional airline at according to a report from French publi-

the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) cation Air Journal, making it the alliance’s

annual Feather Awards event last year. first on the African continent.
“To receive this award means that our “Our systems were at a higher level which
service delivery standards are followed facilitated their alignment with those of the

through and applied to our customers. Alliance; but also through the great efforts
Receiving this award is a clear indication made by our teams, who were mobilised

that Air Mauritius is recognised as a leader to make this grandiose project a success

airline in the region. We are proud of our for Royal Air Maroc and for the Kingdom,”

national carrier,” said Carla da Silva, Air standards are maintained at all levels of We have seen new routes, traffic develop- Hamid Addou, CEO of Royal Air Maroc said

Mauritius regional manager Latin America the business. Each process, when managed ments and this has boosted our contribu- in a statement translated from French. of American’s first foray into Africa. service to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (ABJ), Lagos,

and South Africa efficiently and consistently results in a happy tion to the SA economy”. Royal Air Maroc serves more than 100 The carriers began code sharing on cer- Nigeria (LOS) and Luanda, Angola (LAD).

The ACSA Feather Awards are conferred customer. Our customers and our staff col- destinations in 49 countries, allowing One- tain routes across each other’s networks Africa is a growth market for US carriers.

“Planning and maintenance are essential

upon recipients, based on independent sur- lectively contributed to winning us the ‘Best to our operations. We will continue to ap- world to add 34 new destinations and 21 on December 26, as TPG’s Edward Russell United returned to the continent after a

veys of passengers and other airport users. Regional Airline’ award for 2019’”. ply our strengths, promote our brand and countries to its map, bringing its network reported last month. Routes covered multi-year hiatus with seasonal service to

Awards for top performing airlines are According to ACSA, the 2019 Feather do what we do best. We are operating the to 1,069 airports in 178 countries and terri- include Royal Air Maroc’s between the US Cape Town (CPT), which began last month.

based on on-time performance (40 %), pas- Awards recipients all played a significant newest technology aircraft to two of our tories, according to Air Journal. and Casablanca (CMN) as well as onward Delta serves four cities in Africa - Accra (ACC)

senger process improvement observations role in the ongoing success of OR Tambo In- three South African airports (Johannesburg This comes just weeks after American service to Marrakech (RAK) in Morocco and in Ghana, Dakar (DSS) in Senegal, Johannes-
(30 %) as well as airport service quality ternational Airport - Africa’s largest airport. and Cape Town). This new technology is no Airlines and Royal Air Maroc launched a select American routes in the US. burg (JNB), and Lagos (LOS) in Nigeria - and has

surveys conducted with our passengers (25 According to Bongiwe Pityi-Vokwana, match for our competitors in the market. new code share partnership, an airline’s The code share will expand to additional grown capacity annually for the past several

%), said da Silva. general manager of OR Tambo, “The best We believe that operating new equipment, ability to sell flights operated by another routes in 2020, including Royal Air Maroc years, Cirium schedules have shown. Q

“To secure this award, an airline has to airports do much more than get passen- ensuring our schedules are published with carrier under its own flight number, ahead
be consistent throughout the year in terms gers and flights in and out. For us, it really minimum disruption and exceeding our

of passenger processing, on-time perfor- is all about the passenger experience. customers’ expectations in terms of service

mance and staff performance. Air Mauritius’ 2019 had its challenges but we pulled will keep us in the lead for a re-award ‘Best
focus is on ensuring that service delivery through to sustain and grow our business. Regional Airline’ in 2020,” said da Silva. Q Committed to safety and innovation,
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PRESIDENTIAL FLEET OR including the senate president and
PRESIDENT’S FAMILY FLEET? speaker of the house of representatives.

eventy-three billion, three Recently it was reported one of THE BURDEN
Shundred million naira or president Muhammadu Buhari’s

(US) 201 million dollars. That is how daughters flew to Bauchi state in a It could not be confirmed what the

much Nigeria has budgeted for the presidential jet for a private function. current number of the jets in the

presidential air fleet from 2011 to 2020. The action drew criticism from many presidential fleet are at present. In 2015

the number stood at 10.
According to budget documents Nigerians who lamented the cost
Buhari had promised to sell two of the

analysed, the allocation for the implication of such a trip. Femi Falana, jets to save costs.

‘presidential air fleet’ as captured senior lawyer, said it has no precedent

under the office of the national security in Nigeria’s history. A look at the budgetary allocations for

adviser (ONSA) comprises a recurrent But a presidential spokesman the presidential aircraft showed that it

and capital expenditure of N35.9 billion defended the action. Garba Shehu said averaged N7 billion in the last 10 years.

and 37.4 billion respectively. it is ‘normal practice’ for members The highest allocated for the fleet N18
Besides the personnel cost covered of the president’s family to use the billion and the least N3.54 were both

in the budget over the years, some aircraft in the fleet for their private incurred under the administration of Experience the difference today. Contact Pieter Cronje to discuss
other items under it include utilities, engagements - a claim Falana refuted. Goodluck Jonathan. Q getting started with the world’s most trusted flight data solution.

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