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GENERAL NEWS
AVIATION

AFRAA INTERACTIVE

CAPACITY PORTAL LAUNCH

increases daily utilisation of aircraft. cost management, cargo operations and

On one hand, operators will have business continuity.

s part of their initiative and the opportunity to make offers of their AFRAA secretary general Abdérahmane

Aeff ort to restart the African aircraft availability and check the list of Berthé said, “This platform is a tool to

aviation industry, the African Airlines offered airplanes for ACMI (aircraft, crew, enhance co-operation among AFRAA

Association has launched an interactive maintenance and insurance), dry lease members with the view to ensuring that
African operators provide solutions to

capacity-sharing portal for sale and layover aircraft use. African challenges with win-win bene-
On the other hand, users will be able
African airlines. to place requests for: ACMI, passenger fits for all operators involved in aircraft

The portal, which has been created charter, cargo charter and consultan- capacity sharing, during and well beyond
under the auspices of the strategic cy services. As airlines redefine their the COVID-19.”

partnership between AFRAA and ACC avi- business models, network and fleet, “Currently, layover aircraft at certain

ation group, will provide airlines access AFRAA and ACC also avail restructuring airports provide strong opportunities

to market-leading services to support consultancy services through the for airlines to serve new routes without

the development of Africa’s aviation portal to assist with short and investing in additional airplanes.”

industry. medium-term plans. Airlines have been invited to register
During the launch, a capacity building AFRAA’s recovery plan that was and make use of the platform so as to

virtual workshop was held recently to developed in April 2020 encompasses harness the opportunities to improve

REDUCING ACCIDENTS: demonstrate the functionality of the tool actions to navigate through COVID19 operations.

to airlines.
that are anchored on nine-pillars, these
A second edition of the capacity build-
Co-operation among AFRAA airlines is

include: governments, regulators, service
ing workshop will be held later in August

CHARTERING A NEW APPROACH paramount for sustainability of the air providers, customers, maintenance, cost for potential customers comprising of
transport industry. The portal, which is
management, cargo operations, work-

entities such as: service providers, civil

powered by ACC aviation group, gives

airlines a platform to share capacity and force, ensuring business continuity. The aviation authorities, logistics entities and

portal addresses actions under pillars on
other stakeholders in the supply chain. Q
By Heidi Gibson

looking at getting off the ground as part of this
In an industry first, he South African Civil Aviation Author- strategy is the establishment of focus groups

– consisting of industry experts – that will look
the South African Tity is about to launch a multi pronged in depth at issues such as how to improve the Join the

Civil Aviation and ground breaking strategy – never before continuous professional development of pilots
and instructors.
done by any aviation authority around the

Authority will world – aimed at the prevention of accidents. There will also be the opportunity to conduct REVOLUTION

Although a formal date had not been an-
launch an accident nounced at the time of going to press, industry in-depth research projects into the underlying
factors that cause accidents.

“Often times there are other factors that
reduction strategy experts and stakeholders have been working need to be taken into consideration when look-

together providing consultation and informa-
that will involve all tion on a number of different aspects of the ing at what caused an accident and not merely Be among the first in the world to

sectors. strategy that is about to be rolled out. the last link in the chain” said a senior source in experience the gold-standard solution for
the SACAA.
It is a joint initiative that will see both parties

engage in focus groups, in-depth research and This multi-pronged approach will include sub- aircraft monitoring, communications,

the formation of education content – all aimed jects such as focus groups that will look at the

at empowering pilots to recognise the signs of possible impact drones may have on general and safety insights.

a developing accident and prevent accidents as aviation operations, and a focus groups that
well as a number of other subjects. can tackle the topic of how to improve process-

An important part of this will involve the es in the aviation medicine field.
presentation of educational seminars that will “The CAA does not want to work in isolation Spider X is shipping now!

provide pilots with the tools that will enable – in fact it is the complete opposite of this. We
him or her to recognise an impending accident. will be working with the industry supporting

The seminars will be presented by recognised other safety initiatives that are already in place

senior industry professionals who will teach and will be drawing on experts in the field

researched content. Ultimately it is envisaged make their contribution,” said the source.

that the content will be of such a high standard “We also want to look at better communica-

that it will be measurable and standardized and tion between ourselves and the industry. With
adopted into the training curricula. the advent of social media pilots today do not
As there is no ‘ideal accident’ to learn from, have the opportunity to learn from what we

it is hoped that the root causes and contribu- used to call ‘Hangar Talk’. This was the time
tory factors of some of the most lethal types of when the older pilots used to share stories Contact Pieter Cronje today to find out more.
accidents will be presented and evaluated in a about their experience. Pilots today do not have +27 66 203 6205 | pieter.cronje@spidertracks.com

critical-analytical way. the time for this. So we want to look at how we -

Another initiative the aviation authority is all of us - can fill this gap,” said the source. Q

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