CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA

The implementation strategy deployed to attain these targets has been:
Designing a national aviation capacity building programme
Benchmarking internationally renowned aviation industries against the regulatory and
service delivery systems
Designing a standardised system of construction and airport classification
Using market expansion strategies to open up new destinations and flight programmes
Purchasing new airplanes to improve service quality and efficiency
Operating safety and facility systems and monitoring systems at the level of
international standards. 23
When one looks at the achievement level against the above targets, one finds that:
In 2011/12, an improvement in most of the operating parameters has been registered.
During 2012/13, the available seat kilometers was 25.755 billion and available ton in
km was 5.224 billion. 24 In addition, the landing and take-off time was reduced to 3
minutes against a target of 10 minutes in 2012/13.
With respect to expanding air transportation services, it was planned to increase
international and domestic destinations to 68 and 20, respectively. Accordingly,
international destinations increased to 73, while no new domestic destinations became
operational during the year. 25
In order to increase the number of private operators in the aviation sector, 13 operators
were registered, while the plan was to increase these private operators to 30 in the
budget year. The plan to increase the number of private operators was not achieved
because of the delay in the ratification of the air transport policy.
With respect to aviation safety and security, it was planned to comply with 85% of
ICAO Universal Safety and Security Audit findings and reduce the number of
accidents per 10,000 flights to 15. The compliance level was actually 87%, but the
number of accidents per 10,000 increased to 33. 26
23
Ibid.
24
GTP, Annual Progress Report for FY 2012/13, pp. 60-61.
25
Ibid.
26
Ibid.
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