When you are up around the Airline Sector, then you definitely recognize there's many cut-throat competitors, not just inside the US but world-wide. Maybe, you keep in mind Hughes, and TWA market spats, or British Airways and Virgin Airways and their extended battles, political influences, and industry location price wars? At the moment low price carriers are battling it out in Asia, exactly where airlines making use of the Southwest Airlines low-cost technique are vying for routes, cargo, passenger counts, and dominance.

Within the Middle East air travel has expanded greatly, and these airlines and Asian airlines are difficult Europe's biggest airlines for a great number of world-wide routes. Effectively, it really is getting quite testy inside the crowded skies lately, particularly more than Africa, Africa you say. Yes, Africa, because the middle class grows, so as well are the number of air travelers, and each airline wants in on that enterprise, and some are okay with carrying out what ever it requires to crowd out the competitors.

There was an interesting post which appeared in Arabian Aerospace News, the premier aviation magazine and news supply for the Middle East and Africa recently. The short article was published on July 24, 2011 and titled; "African sector chief slams Gulf aviation providers for "poaching" staff and territory," which also appeared I think in Air Transport On-line News too. The Article stated that;

"The head on the African Airline Association (AFRAA) named out Gulf carriers and other Middle East aviation providers for poaching staff and gaining unfair route positive aspects more than African airlines Elijah Chingosho, AFRAA's secretary common said at an Embraer-organised airline company seminar in Nairobi currently, that his organisation had written for the African Union with formal complaints against Middle Eastern companies claiming they have been potentially destroying the aviation business across the African continent."

Several of the Middle Eastern Airlines are super well-funded with brand new aircraft, lots of amenities, and there is certainly a great deal of purpose to turn out to be a brand loyalist. Historically, African airline firms have a not so great safety record, much older aircraft, frequent breakdowns, and loss of baggage, and flight delays.

That is just historically the reality, but now there is certainly fairly a little of upgrading going on and a lot of competitors. That is angering indigenous African airline organizations, as well as the free-market is bringing an abundance of competition, one thing they may be not applied to.

Still, competition is excellent for airline travelers, and probably it really is time for any little competition around the African continent in relation to the airline sector. It might serve the flying public effectively. Indeed, I hope you will please look at all this and feel on it.