A general paper for the preparatory committee on the conference of African ministries responsible for civil aviation

Abstract

The development of civil aviation and air transport industry globally, regionally and even domestically is always influenced by changes and developments in some of or all of the economic, technological, political and social factors. This manifests itself clearly in the manner in which for all the time of growth in air transport, a number of states have regarded their national airlines as "flag carriers" and national political symbols of identity. In a number of cases emerging African airlines had varying degrees of affiliations with airlines of the cosmopolitan states. Such affiliations took many forms ranging from technical and management personnel contracts, joint use of equipment, maintenance contracts for shared reservation facilities.