Wednesday, November 13, 2024

High flying CAAB reaches for the stars

If Dr Bao Mosinyi was not clued up about Murphy’s Law before joining the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) as Chief Executive Officer, his first few months on the job made him an expert.

Almost everything that could go wrong was going wrong. Between newspaper headlines about the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) red flagging Botswana’s aviation safety supervision, Covid-19 travel restrictions turning airports into white elephants, and the fraught transition from the Department of Civil Aviation to CAAB floundering on a flurry law suits from disgruntled workers, everyone watching Botswana’s troubled aviation regulator was constantly holding breath, waiting for the next thing to fall apart.

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