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Kenyan tycoons will be counting losses following an announcement by the State to auction 92 planes parked in various airports.

Idle refurbished Isiolo Airport to resume operations in two months Thursday May 13 2021 Officials led by acting Kenya Airports Authority Managing Director Alex Gitari tour the Isiolo International Airport on May 12, 2021. PHOTO | WAWAERU WAIRIMU | NMG By Waweru Wairimu Summary The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has said operations at the Isiolo International Airport will resume in two months bringing to life the facility that has been lying idle for more than three years. The airport was commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2017 after a Sh2.7 billion upgrade and was billed as a game-...

MIAMI – Today in Aviation, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 took to the skies for the first time in 1965, gaining its type certificate nine months later. During the 1950s, there was a growing demand for economic aircraft for frequent short-haul flights to small airports with short runways. In order to meet this demand, the Douglas Aircraft Company (DAC) worked on a design to complement its DC-8 family aircraft. Initially, DAC designed a four-engine aircraft that did not attract enough interest from customers. Then, in 1960, subscribed a two-year contract with France’s Sud Aviation to support...

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The airline has been under provisional liquidation since April 2020. 15:40  The purchase price for the airline is R50m and it needs R250m in start-up capital. Image: Tod Burns State-owned regional airline SA Express’s provisional liquidation has been extended to April 29, 2021. The announcement comes eight months after the airline was placed under provisional liquidation when its business rescue process failed. In a bid to save the airline from being placed under final liquidation, a worker-owned entity called Fly Sax was chosen as the preferred bidder for the purchase of the airline i...