IATA to Hold Africa Aviation Day in Collaboration with Ethiopian
IATA to Hold Africa Aviation Day in Collaboration with Ethiopian
Ethiopian Airlines
The Director-General and Chief Executive officer of IATA, Mr Tony Tyler, and close to a hundred airline representatives and aviation stakeholders from all over Africa will be attending the event.
“We are very pleased to host this very important event, in partnership with IATA, for the first time in Ethiopia. On behalf of Ethiopian, I want to warmly welcome Mr. Tony Tyler, IATA Director-General and CEO to Ethiopia for the first time. We thank Mr. Tyler and his entire team for organizing this event and for choosing Addis Ababa, one of the preferred gateways to the continent,” said Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian.
“During the workshop organized to mark Africa Aviation Day, we will be deliberating on the contribution of aviation as an essential driver of Africa’s socio-economic transformation. We will also discuss the daunting challenges facing the African aviation industry such as high fuel prices, high taxation and infrastructure limitations and how by working together we can ensure that our industry takes its rightful place in the ever increasing global competitive environment. This is a very important and timely event ahead of the IATA Annual General Meeting, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in June 2013”, added CEO Tewolde.
During the Africa Aviation Day, topics such as aviation safety in Africa; financing aviation infrastructure in Africa; fuel impact on development of air transport, trade and tourism as well as developing aviation industry manpower in Africa will be addressed.