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IATA AGM 2026: Africa and the Middle East Stand at Aviation’s Most Difficult Frontier
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IATA AGM 2026: Africa and the Middle East Stand at Aviation’s Most Difficult Frontier

Africa and the Middle East occupy a peculiar place in global aviation. One is home to some of the world’s most powerful connecting hubs, the other remains one of the least connected regions on earth. Yet at this year’s IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the two were presented less as separate stories than as adjoining chapters in the same strategic question: where will aviation’s next phase of growth come from, and what will it take to unlock it?

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