Episode 47: Optimism as Africa and Middle East sees positive growth for 2021
Times Aerospace - Africa and the Middle East
English - December 23, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBBusiness aviation travel airports airlines aerospace defence business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The final aerospace and defence podcast for the Middle East and Africa for this year closes on a positive note.
Kenya’s Aberdair Aviation which has been delivering ACMI charter operations for almost two decades is expanding its business with a new base in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The airline’s CEO Adrian Wilcox talks to Alan Peaford about his fleet plans and the strategy of multi-AOCs from Kenya, Ghana and now Kinshasa with Tanzania and Uganda in the pipeline.
Steve Nichols takes a look at JSSI, the company that brought power-by-the-hour to the business aviation world and talks to Pascale Barhouch the new head of business development based in Dubai
Demand for engine maintenance saw MTU opening a new office in Dubai just ahead of the March lockdown.
MRO editor, Chuck Grieve asks Sami Ben-Kraiem, vice-president marketing and sales, for MTU in Middle East & Southeast Asia whether they regretted the timing of the investment – and discovers that there is strong demand for narrowbody services in the region and MTU expects double digit growth for CFM56 and V2500 shop visits.
The news round-up for the region includes plans for a fleet of unmanned freighters to serve Saudi Arabia with hopes for manufacturing to move to the region.