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Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye   South Africa’s aviation industry is an active enabler of industry in the region, sustaining 70 000 direct jobs in the country and around 1.1 million indirect jobs.  Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye, noted this in his opening address to the 10th Anniversary Barsa Conference at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg, on March 7 and 8.  Thought leaders and key stakeholders in the Southern African aviation industry turned out in numbers. The delegates were drawn from domestic and international airline operators, air transport regulatory authorities, airport operators, aviation service providers, aviation and tourism associations, tourism marketing agencies, government departments and agencies, and research institutions.    The theme of the conference was ‘Moving Forward: Embracing Accountability for a Better Future’.  Daniel Silke. Source – Barsa Macro-economist Daniel Silke, in his presentation on Charting Economic Progress, gave a vivid picture...

Walk with lions in Kenya’s Maasai Mara 86 kilometres, one big African landscape and many, many predators. Lizzie Pook takes the ultimate walking safari There is something uniquely terrifying about finding fresh lion tracks while walking in the bush. Everything gets very quiet. Each rustle of foliage sends crackles of adrenalin darting throughout your body; each sound carried by the soft breeze makes sweat needle in your armpits, the crook of your elbows, the small of your back. I’m on foot in the Maasai Mara, where I’m spending four days traversing four different conservancies using just my legs as part of Asilia’s new Adventures offering. There are no vehicles. No luxury bush breakfasts. Instead, I’ve been walking for up to seven hours a day in the oven-like African heat, camping alongside riverbeds, in dense tangled forest and, at one point, in marshy swampland filled with boisterously loud toads. My guide is Roelof Schutte – an Afrikaner with icy, wolf-like eyes and the ability to m...

The first phase of the arrangement, which launches on Tuesday (19 March), allows Virgin customers to directly book flights on Kenya Airways’ route between London Heathrow and Nairobi. The codeshare will later be extended to allow Kenya Airways passengers to connect via Heathrow on to Virgin’s services to Caribbean destinations. Juha Jarvinen, Chief Commercial Officer at Virgin Atlantic, said: "As a fellow member of the SkyTeam alliance, we know our customers will enjoy a seamless travel experience, with more opportunities to earn and spend their miles with increased benefits for our SkyPriority members". Virgin Atlantic’s Gold and Silver Flying Club members, as well as Kenya Airways’ Asante Rewards Platinum and Gold members can use SkyPriority services at both Heathrow and Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport, including priority check in, baggage handling and boarding. Julius Thairu, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer at Kenya Airways, called the codeshare with Vi...