Africa: Opens Skies for African Airlines

26 January 2018

On Tuesday, African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) saddled with the responsibility of executing the open sky policy for Africa, known as Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) by the African Union spearheaded the sensitisation of Nigeria's aviation industry on the need to embrace the open sky policy at a workshop hosted by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

The objective of SAATM is to have total deregulation of the African airspace as an endorsement of Yamoussoukro Decision, which was agreed on by African states in Yamoussoukro, Cote'Ivoire in 1988 with the objective to have single African air transport market.

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