African Airlines Tops The New EU blacklist

WORRIED by aviation safety in Africa, the European Union has continued to expand its list of African airlines that are not permitted to operate into its airspace.



The new list has 284 airlines from 24 countries worldwide currently barred from flying into Europe. Out of the 24 countries worldwide with airlines on the banned list, 17 of them or over 70 per cent are from Africa. This means that about a third of all African countries are on the banned list.

But the good news is that no Nigerian airline featured on the list, which observers had described as image damaging.