Sade Adeyemi

Sade covered the aviation business for South Africa’s Engineering News for six years, including the long, painful collapse of Comair in 2022, the perpetually unresolved SAA restructure, and the slow ascent of Ethiopian Airlines as the continent’s most operationally credible flag carrier. She went independent in 2023 and now consults for a regional industry-research firm in addition to writing.

She writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one piece a month focused on African aviation, the hub-strategy questions that define how the continent connects to the rest of the world, and the gap between foreign coverage of African aviation (often shaped by safety incidents) and the slower business-strategy story underneath. Her beat is the structural view of an aviation region whose major realities most international travellers don’t know to ask about.

She lives in Sandton, flies JNB by default, and quietly contends that Ethiopian’s ADD hub is the most operationally interesting story in African aviation right now, even if Kenya Airways and the JNB redevelopment are getting more press attention.