Analysis, opinion and reporting from Dr Guy Leitch and a rotating bench of editors. No press releases. No AI slop.
Why 2026 is the year private operators stopped competing on price, and started competing on reliability, fleet age, and whether the paperwork actually holds up in a ramp check.
Africa has fewer than a dozen Part-145 heavy-maintenance organisations. Here’s why that number matters more than fleet growth.
OpinionA decade of bailouts has bought us decline, not renewal. The case for letting the market set the route network.
InterviewOn why Port Alfred keeps attracting cadets from thirty countries, and what SACAA gets right that bigger regulators still don’t.
RegulationFour new signatories in the past twelve months. What’s actually changing beneath the treaty, and what still isn’t.
EditorialWe have more data than we’ve ever had, in more silos than we can count. A proposal for what to do about it.
AnalysisCargo movements into northern Mozambique tell a different story than the public numbers. We pulled the data.
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