West Africa has world’s highest airfares - ECOWAS confirms

Air travel within West Africa is more expensive than anywhere else in the world, a trend that continues to hamper regional integration and economic development, according to a senior official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Speaking at a high-level parliamentary meeting in Lomé, Togo, on Tuesday, May 6, ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation, Sédiko Douka, said intra-regional flights are so costly that it's often cheaper to fly