North-West Africa as an aviation hub between Europe and Latin America
Hi,
I was thinking the other day...in the last few years Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become important hubs for air travel between Europe and India/South-East Asia/Australia...increasing the possibilities to travel between those areas (even if this involves a stop-over), and making these small Middle-Eastern countries richer (not only thanks to this...but also).
What if...the North-Western African countries were better managed than now, and would try to become an hub for travel between Europe and Latin America? At the moment travelling to South America from Europe is long and expensive, even when using Madrid as hub, but with a stop-over somewhere on the North-West coast of Africa, it could become cheaper and more frequent.
What do you think? Of course the current political and economical situation in many North-Western African countries makes this a dream...but even Dubai and Abu Dhabi were poor countries in the past.
Also Central Asian countries could try to establish themselves as hubs for air travel between Europe and the Far East...but as with Africa, these countries at the moment are so corrupted that make Greece look like a model of good governance.