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African Airlines Association (AFRAA) AVIATION SAFETY MEETING From Prof; Wolfgang Thome Under the auspices of Afraa (African Airlines Association) experts for the aviation safety enhancement team (ASET) met in Nairobi and discussed common problems and objectives to improve the safety in African skies. While the year 2004 proved to be on of the safest years in air travel for the last 60 or so years, African aviation has been struggling with ageing aircraft fleets. While some airlines, notably Kenya Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian and a few others have been embarking on a fleet renewal and modernization exercises, many of the continent's airlines still fly aircraft of earlier generations, which are not only expensive to operate in view of the high fuel consumption but also very expensive to maintain. East Africa has already established a joint EAC Civil Aviation Safety Project and is moving towards a common aviation policy and standards for the entire EAC, ahead of re-introducing a single sky policy later in the year. Compliance with ICAO standards and regular audits have helped to address some of the issues and moving towards Category One status by the US FAA has also assisted in bringing African aviation into the 21st century. In an important step Afraa also called for a political de-linking of CAA's all over Africa and establish them as independent regulators. Background: The formation of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) was the result of historic developments and economic imperatives. In the early 1960s, a great number of African States acceded to independence and created their own national airlines. Most of these airlines became members of the International Air Transport Association. AFRAA has its conceptual beginning in 1963, when a number of African airlines, taking the opportunity provided by the IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) began holding consultation meetings prior to the IATA AGMs to discuss matters of interest to African airlines and to adopt common positions. This was the first step towards the creation of AFRAA. AFRAA is an organization open to air carriers owned by African states and/or to carriers by citizens of such states. At of December 2004, AFRAA had 44 members AFRAA MEMBERS ADC Airlines (1997) P. O. Box 6392 84, Opebi Road Lagos, Nigeria   Aero Zambia (1998) 1st Floor, Z.N.I.B., Private Bag E717 Dedan Kimathi Road, Lusaka Zambia Tel:+260.1.22.6192/3/4 Fax:+260.1.22.6147   Afriqiyah Airlines (2002) Ali Khalifa Zaidi St. Tripoli, Libya Tel. +218-21 44.49.743/44.49.734 http://www.afriqiyah.aero   Air Algérie (1968) l Place Maurice Audin Alger, Algérie Air Botswana (1991) P. O. Box 92 Gaborone, Botswana   Air Burkina SA (2002) 29 Avenue de la Nation BP 1459 Ougadougou Burkina Faso Tel: +226-317165/342060/D:211080 Fax:+226-317174/342067 ips.burkina@fasaonet.bf   Air Burundi (1981) B. P. 2460 Bujumbura, Burundi   Air Gabon (1978) B. P. 2206 Libreville, Gabon   Air Guinée (1968) B. P. 12 Conakry, Guinée   Air Ivoire (2002) Place de la République 01 BP 7782 Abidjan 01 Coté d'Ivoire Tel: +225.20.25.15.61 Fax: +225.20.32.04.90 abjdgvu@aviso.ci   Air Madagascar (1975) 31 Avenue de l'Indépendance Antananarivo, Madagascar   Air Malawi (1968) P. O. Box 84 Blantyre, Malawi   Air Mauritanie (1982) B. P. 41 Nouakchott, Mauritanie   Air Mauritius (1985) 5, President John Kennedy Avenue Port Louis, Mauritius   Air Namibia (2000) P.O. Box 731 Windhoek, Namibia   Air Sénégal International (2002) Aéroport Léopold Sédar Senghor B.P. 29.127 Dakar, Sénégal Tel. +221 865.23.00   Air Seychelles (1993) P. O. Box 386 Mahe, Seychelles   Air Tanzania (1977) P. O. Box 543 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania   Air Zimbabwe (1981) P. O. Box AP l Harare, Zimbabwe     Antinéa Airlines (2002)   Base de Irara , Route d'El-Borma   Aéroport de Hassi Messaoud   Alger, Algérie   Tel. +213 2160.00.60       Azza Air Transport Co. Ltd (2002) Mc Nimir Street P.O. Box 11586 Khartoum, Sudan       Bellview Airlines Ltd (1997) Ikeja, P. O. Box 6571 Marina, Lagos, Nigeria   Cameroon Airlines (1973) B. P. 4092 Douala, Cameroon Eagle Aviation (1999) P. O. Box 76623 J. Kenyatta Int. Airport Nairobi   East African Airlines Ltd Plot 3 Kimathi Avenue, Pan Africa House, 3rd Floor P O Box 2389 Kampala Uganda Tel +256 78 260625/006-41 34 41 53 Tel/Fax +256 41 34 98 75 info@flycastafrican.com   EgyptAir (1968) Cairo International Airport Cairo, Egypt   Ethiopian Airlines (1968) P. O. Box 1755 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   Executive Airline Services (2002) 29, Adeniyi Jones Avenue P.O. Box 2051 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria Tel. +234-1 497.5016/7/9   Ghana Airways (1968) P. O. Box 1636 Accra, Ghana   Interair (2001) Interair S.A Private Bag 8 Johannesburg International Airport 1627 South Africa Tel. +27-11 622.7281 Fax +27-11 622.6239 Email: interair@mweb.co.za   Kenya Airways (1977) P. O. Box 19002 Nairobi, Kenya   Khalifa Airways (2002) Chemin de la Petite Provence, Lotissement 11 Décembre 1960, Ydra Alger, Algérie Fax: 213 21 483927   LAM Mozambique (1976) P. O. Box 2060 Maputo, Mozambique   Libyan Arab Airlines (1968) P. O. Box 2555 Tripoli, Libya   Lignes Aériennes Congolaises (1968) B. P. 204 Kinshasa 24 République Démocratique du Congo   Nigeria Airways (1968) P. O. Box 136 Lagos, Nigeria Royal Air Maroc (1977) Aéroport CASA-ANFA Casablanca, Maroc STA-Mali Trans African Airlines (2003) BP 775 Bamako-Rep. Du Mali Tel: +223.220.92.75/2202952/2204082 Fax: +223.221.09.81/223.223.14.67 sta-mali@cefib.com or papewsowthiam@hotmail.com   South African Airways (1994) Private Bag X13 Johannesburg International Airport 2000   South African Express (2003) Mezzanine Floor, Terminal J Johannesburg Int. Airport P. O. Box 101 1627, South Africa Tel: +27.11.978.94.56 Fax: +27.11.978.94.56 bdibate@saexpress.co.za   Sudan Airways (1968) P. O. Box 253 Khartoum, Sudan   TAAG Angola Airlines (1978) 123, Rua da Missao Luanda, Angola   Trans Arabian Air Transport (2002) P.O. Box 1461 Khartoum, Sudan Tel. +249-11 47.18.05/47.18.06/47.15.68   TUNIS AIR Tel: (+216 71) 700 100/545 Fax: (+216 71) 700.008 Email: mail@tunisair.com.tn