MojaAir is a New Pan-African Airline Connecting the Continent Through Five Regional Hubs, With Transparent Fares From $25 That Reflect the Distance You Fly.
Only 19% of African city pairs have a direct flight. The rest reroute through Europe or the Gulf, adding 8 to 18 hours to journeys that are geographically short. MojaAir exists to close that gap, with a five-hub network across East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa that flies direct wherever possible and connects only when a hub genuinely shortens the journey.
Fares start from $25 and are priced on the journey itself, not on fare classes or how many segments you happen to fly. No fuel surcharges, no booking fees, no surprises at checkout. A business trip from Nairobi to Lagos, a family visit from Accra to Abidjan and a trader moving stock between Entebbe and Kinshasa are all priced on the same honest logic.
"We are not just an airline.
We are the bridge between
Africa's 54 nations."
The MojaAir Team
Air connectivity is infrastructure. When African cities are easier to reach from other African cities, trade moves faster, tourism spreads wider and families stay closer.
Intra-African trade reached $220.3 billion in 2024, up 12.4%, yet still only 14.4% of the continent's total trade. Affordable air links help traders and small businesses reach customers across borders in hours rather than days.
Africans are the continent's fastest-growing travel market. Easier regional routes open up destinations that are currently hard to reach without a long detour through another continent.
Family life across Africa is rarely contained by a single border. Predictable, distance-based fares make visiting relatives in a neighbouring country a decision about time, not about cost.
Continental frameworks such as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) are designed to lower the barriers to moving goods and people between African markets. MojaAir is built to operate in the environment those frameworks aim to create, connecting African travellers on African routes.
MojaAir has not yet flown. Rather than claim environmental results we cannot yet evidence, here is what the airline is being designed around.
The operating model is built around fuel-efficient aircraft and high utilisation. Flying people directly between African cities, rather than via another continent, removes journey distance that never needed to exist.
Delays, holding patterns and diversions burn fuel. MojaAir aims to treat on-time performance as an environmental discipline, not only a service one.
The airline's intention is to publish its environmental performance openly once operations begin, so that progress can be measured against evidence rather than ambition.
MojaAir makes no claims regarding emissions reductions, sustainable aviation fuel supply or carbon-offset programmes at this stage. Any such commitments will be published with supporting evidence when they are in place.
MojaAir is designed as a digital-first airline: book on the device you already carry, in the currency and payment method you already use.
The booking journey is designed to be completed on a phone in minutes, with your itinerary and boarding pass issued digitally. No queues, no paperwork, no counter visit required.
The payment model is built around how Africans pay: mobile money platforms including M-Pesa, MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money and Orange Money, alongside card. PAPSS settlement is part of the intended design for cross-border payments.
The fare you see is the fare you pay. Baggage is priced clearly per bag, and a $100 late-booking surcharge inside 72 hours of departure is labelled plainly rather than buried in the total.
A meeting in Lagos, a supplier in Nairobi, a contract in Johannesburg. MojaAir's network is shaped around getting between African commercial centres directly, with a maximum of one connection on any journey and a 90-minute transit when a connection is needed.
Cross-border traders, the majority of them women, are among the network's most important customers. Distance-based fares and clearly priced baggage make the cost of a trip something that can be calculated in advance.
Victoria Falls, Zanzibar, Cape Town, Marrakech, the Serengeti gateway at Kilimanjaro. Many of Africa's best-known destinations are simpler to reach from Europe than from a neighbouring African country. MojaAir is built to correct that.
Intra-African fares have typically run between US$320 and US$550 a sector, against US$40 to US$80 for comparable distances in Europe. Distance-based pricing is how MojaAir intends to make regional discovery a realistic choice.
MojaAir is built on the evidence published by Africa's leading development finance institutions. The numbers below are drawn from their most recent flagship reports.
of African city pairs have a direct flight today the rest reroute through other continents.
Africa Finance Corporation, 2026projected rise in passenger traffic and fall in fares under a fully open African air market.
AFCAC / SAATM studyadditional trips and 96,000+ jobs unlocked each year by aviation liberalisation.
AFC 2026 · AFCACGDP and roughly one million jobs already supported by aviation in Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Africa Finance Corporation, 2026Independent analysis prepared for a coalition of development finance institutions supports MojaAir's five-hub regional network design and its distance-based pricing model.
The Aim of the Project, How the Five-Hub Network Fits Together, How We Set Every Fare, and How MojaAir Will Impact Intra-African Trade.
Read the FAQMojaAir is a pan-African airline designed around one idea: that moving between African cities should be simple, affordable and priced honestly. The Phase 1 network is mapped, the distance-based fare model is set, and the operating team is being assembled.
The MojaAir Founding Team · 2026
For partnership, investor, media or general enquiries about the MojaAir project, we would be glad to hear from you.
MojaAir is a proposed pan-African ultra-low-cost carrier developed to operationalise the African Union's Agenda 2063, the Single African Air Transport Market and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
The project is supported by independent analysis aligned with the priorities of leading development finance institutions, including the African Development Bank and Afreximbank to the Africa Finance Corporation.