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130 African air operators banned from EU


A third of all African country airlines are banned from operating in EU territory. In order to address this, a series of initiatives to addressing critical setbacks in the continent's vast aviation sector till 2015 were high on the agenda of the extraordinary session of aviation safety in Africa.

One of the main issues discussed was the impact of regulatory oversight on the training of flight crew and maintenance personnel, and the vital role of efforts to reduce the large number of African carriers currently blacklisted in the EU, however regulations remained entangled in various difficulties that inhibit further progress.