Airlines based in the Middle East and Africa will end the year in the black, despite macroeconomic headwinds, as air travel demand outstrips available seat capacity, the International Air Transport Association’s regional chief said.
Passenger traffic has reached 80 per cent of 2019 levels before Covid-19, lifting revenue and pushing operators into profitability, Kamil Al-Awadhi, regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East at Iata, told The National on the sidelines of the Bahrain…