Flights connectivity within Africa remains a challenge and to address this, a Task Force on Network Coordination was set-up in June 2011. Task Force would initially evaluate the practicability and cost-effectiveness of improving flight connectivity among airlines, forging beneficial commercial cooperation, improving aircraft utilisation, increasing flight frequencies and availability and encouraging airlines to work together.
Objectives of the Project
• Coordinate and harmonise flight schedules with the view to proposing alternative cost-effective schedules that will generate increased load factors and revenue
• Improve intra-African connectivity and increase flight frequencies as well as offer flexibility to travellers
• Reduce travel time, minimise passenger layover (hotel accommodation) and assist airlines to realise synergy through collaborative network development
• Encourage cooperation through code-share, interline, Special Pro-rate Agreements (SPAs) and other such commercial arrangements
Benefits of the Project to Participating Airlines
• Airlines' schedules harmonization at various airports to facilitate connectivity and passenger/cargo transfer or exchange
• Traffic/network rationalization and profitability analysis will benefits all participating airlines
• More airlines will interline, codeshare, conduct joint operations or joint utilisation of aircraft
• Reduce passengers transit time and offer competitive service
• Minimize number of transit passengers that are accommodated by airlines
• Lower operating costs, higher load factors and increase revenues
• Stimulate incremental traffic and revenue to airlines because of convenient connections and schedules
Project Consultant
This project will be support through consultancy services to be provided by Sabre Airline Solutions. Sabre Airline Solutions has the data, tools and experience in network coordination, having assisted airline Associations in the Middle East and Latin America to successfully implemented similar projects.
Proposed Airlines on the Task Force
Air Nigeria
EgyptAir
Ethiopian Airlines
Kenya Airways
LAM-Mozambique Airlines
Royal Air Maroc
South African Airways
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