Will RwandAir Be The Next Big African Airline?

[@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION]

I hope Rwandair and Rwanda will grow quickly! 🇷🇼

[@moviezz49]

Flew with RwandAir twice in 2017/18 from Kamerun to South Africa. Even with multiple stops this was one of my best experience I had on an african carrier so far. The food was amazing and the crew was really great. Would fly with them any time again because in my opinion they offer a much better onboard product then other carriers like Kenya Airways which really disappointed me on short flights. And like other comments pointed out the fares are way cheaper than other airlines 😀

[@magnustan841]

Africa seems to have all these little carriers that operate the latest aircraft and have a solid passenger product. You have Rwandair, Uganda Airlines and Air Senegal. How much these guys can compete with the big boys remains to be seen. The potential is there given African nations are developing fast with the middle-class population growing, meaning more can afford to fly.

[@ddarkdomz]

I'd argue Air Senegal is different. Air Senegal is quite clearly AIRFRANCE Senegal, their frequent flyer program is a dead giveaway. And Air Senegal is clearly targeting the inbound tourist market, so like AIR ALGERIE, RAM, they'll do fine. Air Peace in Nigeria also looks like a copy of AIRFRANCE. TAAG is clearly KLM. Anyone who partners SkyTeam airlines will definitely survive. My question is what is South African Airways still doing in Star Alliance. They're in the wrong alliance, and that's their problem. South Africa's big inbound markets are all conveniently oneworld strongholds such as UK, Australia, HK, Malaysia, US etc I hope China can work its magic on Africa. Like Southeast Asia in particular, African nations aren't big to be self sustainable, with most capitals and in the rare case of major cities, are primate cities. This is why Thailand's aviation industry is suffering as the country relies almost all on Bangkok in terms of population, economic, political etc. Understanding this made Thailand realize that the consequence of more affluent population is overseas travel, and thereby pushing a liberal aviation international policy. This is something that Rwanda lacks awareness of completely. So to start the ball rolling, international aviation needs to be pushed. I doubt Africa Union will achieve it tho because the continent is inherently split into French speaking and non French speaking. And that's how I believe development will occur: 3 ways... French speaking North Africa/ West Central Africa, English speaking East Africa/ West Asia/ South Africa, and Arab league Africa.

[@petertajiri1644]

@@ddarkdomz That's a very interesting insight

[@abinettefferawossenu5618]

Did u need ethiopian technical in all air lines?

[@tailsorange2872]

Rwanda is very similar to Singapore - Yet so different. If Rwanda manages to be the Singapore of Africa, RwandAir would be successful.

[@echo5935]

3:48 Actually the Guangzhou route is a planned route and they don’t still operate it.

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Very informative video. Fantastic to hear more about African airlines. Keep up the good work.

[@LongHaulbySimpleFlying]

Thank you for watching, be sure to tune in again! 😊✈️

[@amirsalim3305]

i would love to see kenya airways be able to seriously compete with ethiopian airlines but it has so many problems

[@musaronnie6649]

Little problems that can end next year when this government exits.

[@spelldaddy5386]

That fleet size and variation is what makes me the most skeptical. With so many different aircraft types, they need a lot of pilots with different type ratings, which means they can't be interchanged, and it can cause a big problem when one aircraft is under maintenance

[@DonMrLenny]

I live in Tel Aviv and I flew to Tanzania with rwandair their prices were fantastic the flight cost me only 200$ while in any other company a trip to Africa costs around 500$ unfortunately it was before the corona in 2019

[@Elias-xy9kc]

You mean in *Palestine* 🇵🇸

[@DonMrLenny]

@@Elias-xy9kc as much as i remeber the name Tel Aviv is in hebrew which means spring mound Does the city has an arabic name and i dont know? Its not called tel rabiaa

[@Elias-xy9kc]

@@DonMrLenny It was called يافا "Yafa" which is an Arabic name, but in 1950 you idiots took it and named it Tel Aviv, it should be called Tel Shit. But your end is soon, every day time passes, and your end comes closer and closer! 🇸🇦❤️🇵🇸

[@DonMrLenny]

@@Elias-xy9kc first of all jaffa is still exist and alive and its right next to tel aviv and they are actually two saprate cities Second the name jaffa is not in arabic it comes from the cnaanite word of beauty which is yofi and its also the same word in hebrew And third i actually thank you for saying that the end is coming you say that for over 75 years and the more you say it israel actually becomes stornger And btw that like you give to yourself is that makes you more confident about your answers

[@DonMrLenny]

@@Elias-xy9kc you forgot to give yourself a like

[@ostheboss01]

Great video, excited to see more aviation content from simple flying

[@IBISUSADIVERSE]

Wow rwandair is growing

[@nohandle117]

3:39 Rwandair doesn't fly to either airport on the Zanzibar Archipelago. They fly to Dar es Salaam on the mainland and Mombasa in Kenya. Interestingly, Rwandair does have Zanzibar listed as a destination on its website, but the destination page is blank and no flights are available. Neither Zanzibar airports have Rwandair listed as a carrier either.

[@EdywyneRacing]

This is nice of RwandAir if they have only two CRJ's then I have boarded both on a round trip from Kenya to Kigali Rwanda

[@gooner72]

It's good to see another African airline do well, it's a huge continent with endless potential for expansion. Good luck to them I say!!

[@sebinamuwanga]

Bugesera airport is found in Bugesera, not Kigali.

[@elweewutroone]

10:36 ‘Don’t forget to like and subscri-’

[@aspiringcaptain]

Honestly no, they still have yet to get a fixed client base because they haven’t yet created a memorable experience and attachment with their clients, unlike Ethiopian and Kenya Airways (at least they did before). My hometown before Ethiopian began operating flights 4 times a week, we would rely on Rwandair to fly so we had to drive 3 hours to get there. It wasn’t an issue, it was fun trips and all. I enjoyed the catering and the service was nice. But then after the pandemic hit, everything started going down hill. They didn’t have an established system for probably one of their biggest audiences, us. We had to pay to do a Covid test from their biochemical company so we had to cross the border but for that, we needed to get another Covid test from our town first. And the way to go around that was to go directly to the airport and not stay overnight but that often led to missing the flight. So then we relied on Ethiopian, which at first, a lot of people weren’t willing to take. Then Rwandair begun flights to our hometown directly but that didn’t fix the problem because Ethiopian makes travelers save significant money by actually having a well planned transit system. Overall they do have potential but they need to step up their game by a large margin.

[@TheReverses78]

What's your hometown??

[@malvinjnrn7784]

Maybe Adding the a330-800 would be appropriate

[@kennedyxhulu4933]

Our Zambian airline company Zambia Airways has a long way to go!

[@tamotegegn6802]

Yes, it's🇿🇲 possible that it can be successful. And it sold some percentage of its share to Ethiopian🇪🇹 airlines! I think it sold 49% to Ethiopian airlines.

[@FreeJaffa92]

This is suspicious. It’s not a good sign when you have that many fleet types with those few aircraft.

[@22ndCenturyBasterd]

2 years later.... still waiting

[@Completely_Incomplete]

Keep a lookout for Air Tanzania.

[@zacktong8105]

Once losses start piling up they will shift their attention elsewhere.

[@malvinjnrn7784]

Maybe they can take air Asia a330neo because they have some that will not be taken up

[@dudeOmzeh]

Can you do a video on Iraqi Airways?

[@Fatikaramu]

Absolutely Rwandair not later than 2030

[@equin_xx]

I'm not that early, but who cares?

[@Jan-ct7ih]

2-nd

[@Samguy55]

Air peace has more aircraft and flies lots of routes too, and it’s an African airline

[@chuksokadigbo4750]

Just forget Air Peace, a trash from dust bin.

[@ddarkdomz]

Rwandair won't succeed. Qatar Airways doesn't have a record of fostering new airlines. You only need to look at failed attempts in Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, and the like. And oneworld carriers tend to be very predatory towards each other too. Rwanda is nothing like Singapore, and it will never be. It's landlocked, and has no access to the sea. There's nothing to do in Kigali, and Singapore from the very start, had strong support in the form of friendships struck with Japan (immediately after WW2 surrender), China (during the Cold War), Russia, France, Germany, Turkey, Australia, US, India. And worse still, Rwanda is too near to the Chinas of Africa aka Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Angola etc Just look at small states next to big regional powers: Taiwan too close to China, Czech Republic too close to France/ Germany etc

[@habiyamberejeanphilippe8439]

Strategies aligned to specific context, Rwanda will

[@shemagustave1138]

Us Rwandan we have small country but we are not small in our mind wait and see

[@ibeeadane4430]

The answer is no. Ruanda air in fact will file for bankruptcy.