This article will tell you a LOT about the current airlines and air transport markets in Africa. Really useful political, cultural, and economical information.

Quoted: By Günter Endres in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam  Photography by Kevin Phillips Titus Naikuni has turned around the fortunes of Kenya Airways in the short time he has been running the East African carrier

This guy is one highly accomplished dude. Freakin overachievers.

Quoted: Group Managing Director & CEO Titus Naikuni graduated from the University of Nairobi in 1979 with a BSc (Honours) degree in Mechanical Engineering. He immediately joined the Magadi Soda Company, a soda-ash manufacturing organization in Kenya, as a trainee engineer. After successfully completing his training within the organization in Kenya, and also in the UK with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), the parent company of Magadi Soda, he got appointed into a managerial role.

Quoted: thiopian Airlines announces that the Board of Management has appointed Ato Girma Wake as the Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines effective February 1, 2004.

Ato Girma Wake brings with him over 37 years of airline management experience in sales and marketing operation at the headquarters, regional and area offices of three organizations.

Quoted: Colleen C. Barrett is currently President and Corporate Secretary for Southwest Airlines Co., a high-frequency, low-fare, point-to-point airline which prides itself in its excellent Customer Service qualities.**

Quoted: Li Jiaxiang, aged 55, is the Chairman of the Board and a Non-executive Director of our
Company. Mr. Li has in-depth knowledge of the aviation industry. Prior to joining Air China
International Corporation in November 2000 as Vice President and becoming its President in
October 2002, Mr. Li had previously served in the China Air Force since 1969 and served in
various positions including as a Major General. In October 2002 he was appointed as Vice
President of CNAHC and then promoted to the position of President in August 2004, a post he
continues to hold. Mr. Li graduated from Shandong Zaozhuang Coal Technology Institute in 1969
and studied in China Northwestern University from 1999 to 2001 majoring in international
economic law.

Super useful.

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Quoted: Air India's order consists of 23 777s, including eight 777-200LR (Longer Range) Worldliners and 15 777-300ERs (Extended Range), and 27 787-8 Dreamliners. Air India Express, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India, will receive 18 Next-Generation 737-800s.