{"id":17808,"date":"2014-12-11T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-air-receives-iosa-certicate\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:49:27","slug":"rwanda-air-receives-iosa-certicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-air-receives-iosa-certicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Air receives IOSA certicate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{Yesterday afternoon saw the successful conclusion of a two-year process of preparing for and then undergoing IATA\u2019s Operational Safety Audit, when Mr. Raphael Kuuchi, IATA\u2019s Vice President for Africa, formally handed over the certificate to RwandAir\u2019s CEO, Mr. John Mirenge.
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The Bourbon Coffee Shop in the newly-expanded Kigali International Airport provided the setting for the event, during which RwandAir was named as the first of 10 airlines selected in 2012 to participate in the IOSA certification process to actually complete the audit, which involved meeting over 1,000 operational safety criteria.<\/p>\n

There was justified pride in John Mirenge\u2019s speech as he thanked first and foremost the government of Rwanda for their unwavering support in accomplishing the task for attaining a global certification which allowed RwandAir to join the aviation elite in not only Africa but the aviation world at large.<\/p>\n

Already mentioned by IATA\u2019s Raphael Kuuchi in his congratulatory address and later on confirmed by RwandAir\u2019s John Mirenge, the has now set their sights on attaining the equally-important certification for safe ground-handling operations, and work towards ISAGO will commence early in the new year.<\/p>\n

RwandAir and IATA both also confirmed that the renewal audit in two years\u2019 time will already be carried out under the new enhanced IOSA version, aptly named e-IOSA.<\/p>\n

RwandAir\u2019s new status now permits the airline to pursue and conclude a number of pending code-share and other partnership agreements with international airlines, for which membership in the IOSA \u201cclub\u201d of certified airlines is quintessential to put pen to paper.<\/p>\n

RwandAir has in recent years become one of Africa\u2019s fastest-growing young airlines, and owned fully by the government of Rwanda has become a strategic tool to connect the landlocked country to the rest of not only the region but to West Africa, South Africa, and the Gulf, the latter served with daily flights to Dubai. Overall the airline presently serves 15 destinations out of their Kigali hub.<\/p>\n

More recently the airline was also granted fifth freedom rights by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to fly from Entebbe to Juba, South Sudan\u2019s capital, while presently operationalizing similar route rights from Entebbe to Nairobi which is awaiting regulatory approval from the Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority.<\/p>\n

Operating a fleet of now 7 aircraft, all newly acquired, comprised of two B737-800NG \u2013 which includes the first ever SkyInterior version delivered to an African airline \u2013 two B737-700NGs, two Bombardier CRJ900NextGen, and one Bombardier Q400NextGen, RwandAir will add a second Bombardier Q400NextGen next year, and in either late 2015 or early 2016, another Boeing B737-800 to allow for further route expansion and more flights to high-demand destinations across Africa.<\/p>\n

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