Some of the benefits of SAATM are:

• Increase in direct services between various city pairs creating greater connectivity;
• Shorter travel time due to more airlines operating on more routes
• Lower fares as a result of increase in African carriers operating intra-African routes
• Enhanced mobility, convenience and freedom through
• Increased city pairs, frequencies and competitive fares

The Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is a flagship project of the African Union Agenda 2063 designed to create a single unified market for air transport in Africa.

When SAATM is fully implemented, the single market aims to allow significant freedom and access to air transport in Africa.

It places the implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision on the liberalization of Air Transport Market in Africa in relation to the achievement of the AU’s Agenda 2063 objectives.