Airlines of Africa - Alliance Participation

Alliance Participation

The airline alliances within Africa tend to include codeshare agreements between multiple airlines in one consortium, and one African carrier owning equity in another African carrier. Relatively few African airlines participate in alliances with non-African carriers, because not enough of them are able to attract capital investment, and therefore are unable to develop networks attractive to airline alliances. South African Airways became a member of Star Alliance on 10 April 2006. Kenya Airways became an associate member of SkyTeam on 4 September 2007. In 2010 Kenya Airways became a full SkyTeam member. Ethiopian Airlines became a member of Star Alliance in December 2011.