Hi-Fly Marketing will attend the 41th AFRAA AGA in Maputo.
Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) and the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) are pleased to welcome the 41st Annual General Assembly (AGA) which will be held in Maputo, Mozambique on 22 -24 November 2009 at Chissano International Conference Center.
The main concern of the conference this year is “Succeeding in challenging time”.
Please contact us to organise a meeting in Maputo Mozambique.
The African Airlines Association, also known by its abbreviation AFRAA is a trade association of airlines which hail from the nations of the African Union. Founded in Accra, Ghana in 1968, and today headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya the primary purpose of AFRAA is to establish and facilitate co-operation between African airlines. There are currently forty members from African Union member States.
The formation of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) was the result of historic developments and economic imperatives.
In the early 1960s, a great number of African States acceded to independence and created their own national airlines. Most of these airlines became members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
AFRAA has its conceptual beginning in 1963, when a number of African airlines, taking the opportunity provided by the IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) began holding consultation meetings prior to the IATA AGMs to discuss matters of interest to African airlines and to adopt common positions. This was the first step towards the creation of AFRAA.
The first Annual General Assembly was held in Cairo, Egypt in February, 1969 which approved the Articles of Association among other decisions taken.
A flashback on the activities of the Association over the last three decades shows that AFRAA can modestly claim that:
it has been in the forefront of major initiatives in the air transport field in Africa in sensitizing African airlines to take concrete actions for co-operation in operational, commercial, technical, and training fields.
it has been instrumental in sensitizing African Governments through the African Civil Aviation Commission and other regional and sub-regional organisations on the actions to be taken for the development of an efficient air transport system. It has been a catalyst for all the major policy decisions in the Continent.
