{"id":4766,"date":"2018-06-06T05:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:42:04","slug":"new-19-state-upper-fir-planned-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/new-19-state-upper-fir-planned-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New 19-state Upper FIR planned for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4770 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11-300x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11-768x694.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11-1024x925.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11-676x611.png 676w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.43.11.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Africa has inched closer to achieving a broad\u00a0Upper Area FIR\u00a0 following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busiweek.com\/comesa-ministers-adopt-airspace-agreement-and-somalia-admission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the move by 19 regional states to adopt an airspace agreement<\/a> at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers of Justice and the Attorney Generals from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) <strong>adopted the legal instrument on common airspace<\/strong> in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The regional airspace agreement aims at achieving a seamless upper airspace for the region<\/strong> which will lead to enhanced competition in air travel and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4769\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14-1024x521.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14-676x344.png 676w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-27-at-23.42.14.png 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Zambia Minister of Justice, Hon. Given Lubinda, who opened the May meeting said the COMESA seamless airspace programme will contribute to bringing down high costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draft legal instruments aimed at the implementation of the COMESA Seamless Airspace programme speak to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extra Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/shipping\/dream-for-seamless-airspace-almost-taking-off\/4003122-4575060-gjqfew\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa\u2019s dream for seamless airspace almost taking off<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afdb.org\/fileadmin\/uploads\/afdb\/Documents\/Project-and-Operations\/Multinational%20%28COMESA%29%20-%20AR%20-%20COMESA%20Air%20Space%20Integration%20Project%20%282%29%5B1%5D.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COMESA Airspace Integration Project <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa has inched closer to achieving a broad\u00a0Upper Area FIR\u00a0 following the move by 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":4768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,319],"tags":[550,584],"class_list":{"0":"post-4766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-news-item","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-airspace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}