Introduction

Africa started the year with the weight of COVID still hanging over it. From January onwards, long-haul African airlines made great strides to ramp up their international schedules. Iberia reinstated its daily flights to Tangier and a nine times a week service to Marrakesh from its home in Madrid. US carrier Delta Airlines also bet big on its African flights, with services to Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar already in the schedule at the start of the year. Qatar, of course, never stopped flying to Africa, but for next year it has a record number of services planned.