VENTURES AFRICA – Booming sectors in sub-Saharan Africa, including oil and gas and agriculture, have expanded demand for business aviation, French aircraft maker, Dassault Aviation has said.
“Sub-Saharan Africa is an area of fast growth and industries such as mining, oil and gas and agriculture are booming which provides expanding demand for business aviation,” said Gilles Gautier, Vice President, Falcon Sales for Dassault Aviation.
The company will present its large cabin,
long range
Falcon 7X at the Africa Aerospace & Defence Expo, which will hold in Gauteng, South Africa on 17-21 September 2014.
“Falcons, with their exceptional short field and hot-and-high performance and low operating economics, are ideal for the tough conditions and vast expanses of this market,” Gautier added.
South Africa, venue of the Expo, which is regarded as the foremost exhibition of aviation technology on the continent, is home to a third of Africa’s business jets and some of its biggest operators. Angola and Nigeria are also two of its fastest growing markets.
Falcon 7X interior
The aircraft maker said Falcons can access challenging airports where competitors are unable to operate – a strong selling point in Africa, where the average age of business aircraft is higher than elsewhere. Features like this, Dassault said have won it 33 percent share of the African market and a quarter of the large cabin segment. The French company also said government users operate 30 percent of the Falcons on the continent.
The newly introduced very large cabin Falcon 5X and ultra long range Falcon 8X are expected to further boost African demand.
With the 6,450nm 8X, an extended version of the 7X featuring an unparalleled selection of cabin configurations, customers will be able to fly non-stop from Cape Town to London or Johannesburg to Moscow while benefiting from the outstanding operating economy and flexibility offered by the 7X.
Aviation contributed $34.5 billion to the GDP of Africa in 2012, which could increase to $168.7 billion in 2032, according to data from the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG). Dassault Aviation’s new offering is expected to boost the growth of the sector on the continent.
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