AFRAA SkyConnect Dialogues, January 2024 with Embraer

AFRAA Skyconnect Leadership Dialogues show takes place every last Wednesday of the month from 1400-1500hrs (East Africa Time). The January 2024 edition of the show hosted Mr. Stephan Hannemann - Embraer VP Sales & Marketing, Head of MEA as the guest speaker on Wed, 17 2024.

The SkyConnect show accords leaders in the aviation ecosystem, a platform to dialogue on critical issues impacting the industry and proffer solutions on making African aviation better and bigger. Besides being a forum to share rich experiences, Skyconnect also strives to explore the inextricable relationship between aviation, tourism, trade and the wider economy of Africa; how to accelerate growth, promote regional integration and create more opportunities for the teaming youthful population.

In the show, Stephan articulated on the following areas:
1. The state of aviation industry in Africa
a. Global and African airlines performance review
b. Forecast and future outlook
c. New aircraft orders by African operators

2. What would you consider as key enablers for air transport development in Africa?

3. Does Embraer have initiatives for youth?

4. Embraer support strategy for Africa
a. Safety and security
b. MRO and technical
c. Skills development

5. Key factors to succeed as an airline on the African continent: financial stability, connectivity, right size & aging fleet opportunities

6. Potential for growth in the upcoming decades: market outlook for the continent, re-thinking strategies for business models: i.e. partnerships with other carriers or building hub-and-spoke models at African airports

7. Fly into the future: sustainable & efficient growth for Africa: implementation of sustainability initiatives – OEM perspective

8. New technology and environmental sustainability
a. Mitigating aviation impact on the environment – role of OEMs
b. Aircraft of the future – new technologies to expect from Embraer

9. Embraer – AFRAA partnership - value of partnership for the development of the industry

10. Final thought – key message to African aviation stakeholders

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