Delta Air Lines was forced to postpone its much-awaited inaugural flight from Atlanta in the United States to Nairobi in Kenya on June 2, 2009, after the airline failed to obtain the United States government’s approval to fly to the east African country. The US government says that will not let ...

The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has started security and safety assessment of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport located in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, as a part of the measures to enable airlines based in Nigeria to fly to the United States.

ASKY, West Africa's new airline, based in Togo, Lome, will start operations in April 2009.