CAPA: Safi Airways is planning a larger role in its home market of Afghanistan as the country’s outlook improves and business returns. In Afghanistan the experience is also a growing presence of hub carriers like Emirates, flydubai and Turkish Airlines. These three carriers have as much international capacity to Afghanistan as Afghan carriers have to the world. Safi believes it needs to respond to these carriers, and others, in order to remain relevant. It plans to make a decision in 1H2016 to acquire 10-20 narrowbody aircraft, for growth and replacement of its existing three narrowbodies.  Click here to read more (external link).