How Addis and Nairobi hubs are driving Africa’s aviation growth
Eastern and southern Africa’s aviation hubs are driving growth, but poor connectivity and high costs still make intra‑African travel a long and expensive journey.
Congolese travellers returning from Livingstone, Zambia, recently spent eight night hours crouched at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport waiting for a flight to Addis Ababa, where they would connect to Kinshasa, a journey of nearly 7,000km and more than 10 hours in the air.
Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) share a border, one traveller noted. A direct flight from Lusaka to Kinshasa would cover the 1,872km distance in under three hours. But no such route exists.
