Revival on the cards for West African Aviation
The year 2020 and 2021 have been loaded with discussions on economic losses, demand-supply mismatch, pandemic challenges and more. West African economies also faced similar challenges and they are still making their recovery steadily but slowly.
Even as 2020 and 2021 have largely been about living through the pandemic and struggling to revive many African economies are now beginning to make a comeback.
The pandemic forced many airlines to completely ground their operations from April to August 2020. Further, in 2020, the lockdowns and travel ban affected the belly cargo capacity of airlines, leading to an overall yearly drop of 23 percent, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Cargo traffic also declined, affected by the disruptions in manufacturing, supply-chain logjams and trade worldwide.
Despite the challenges, Africa’s biggest carriers have responded to the crisis in different ways and there is a growing feeling that the crisis has in fact ended up speeding up ongoing developments in the industry, with struggling airlines forced to take desperate measures and the few success stories becoming increasingly dominant.
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