A new report by the International Air Transport Association has revealed that African airlines’ passenger traffic fell by 65% in 2021 due to the increasing impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. IATA report read in part, “African airlines’ international traffic fell 65.2 per cent last year compared to 2019, which was the best performance among regions. Capacity dropped 56.7 per cent, and load factor sank 14.1 percentage points to 57.3 per cent. Demand for the month of December was 60.5 per cent below the year-ago period, a deterioration from…
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