rukundo wrote:

Air Senegal Dakar-Casablanca and Dakar Barcelona service will be tagged. From 16FEB21, the airline will operate a Dakar-Casablanca-Barcelona service, 3 times a week.

A.net being full of a.nutters the only question is will Air Senegal have rights on the cmn-bcn sector (or opposite) ?

rukundo wrote:

Note that airline performed its first C Check on A320Ceo, few month ago. That's a pretty a good news because many African airlines have to send their aircraft outside Africa to make heavy maintenance and it's very costly for them. So if more and more African airlines can now make heavy maintenance, it will be good news. Air Cote d'Ivoire can create partnership with A320 family (A319 /A320 /A321) small operators in Africa, such as Congo Airways, Air Senegal

It's probably more expensive doing it themselves than contracting out. They lack economies of scale. But indeed, it is good news that they've developed that capacity.

evanb wrote:

rukundo wrote:

Note that airline performed its first C Check on A320Ceo, few month ago. That's a pretty a good news because many African airlines have to send their aircraft outside Africa to make heavy maintenance and it's very costly for them. So if more and more African airlines can now make heavy maintenance, it will be good news. Air Cote d'Ivoire can create partnership with A320 family (A319 /A320 /A321) small operators in Africa, such as Congo Airways, Air Senegal

It's probably more expensive doing it themselves than contracting out. They lack economies of scale. But indeed, it is good news that they've developed that capacity.

The fact is than African airline have lots of western staff, that's more expansive than local staff. But local staff is not skilled. I hope that things will change

eastafspot wrote:

rukundo wrote:

Air Senegal Dakar-Casablanca and Dakar Barcelona service will be tagged. From 16FEB21, the airline will operate a Dakar-Casablanca-Barcelona service, 3 times a week.

A.net being full of a.nutters the only question is will Air Senegal have rights on the cmn-bcn sector (or opposite) ?

I think that you are interested by this flight, sonn a Trip Report

Nigerian Airline Azman Air will add B737-800s. According to Routeonline, the airline will add destinations in Africa.

RO says that "Azman Air executives said they had visited five African countries in 2020—Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda—in search of network points". Flights will be operated from Kano, their main base ? Or Lagos ? Or Abuja ?

https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/br ... s-in-2021/

Note that in August 2020 Azman Air evacuation flights in East Africa, including Rwanda https://www.facebook.com/AzmanAir/posts ... 7925004950

From Rwanda the only stats that i have about Nigeria, it's the passenger trafic between Lagos and Kigali (but it includes connecting passengers at Kigali). Almost 110 000 pax in 2017. RwandAir only served Lagos in 2017 (Abuja arrived in 2018). Most of the companies listed here serve at least 2 destinations in Nigeria.


Found also about Nigerians in Rwanda: US visitors spend an average of $12,000 [on a holiday, according to Virtuoso], making them the most lucrative source market. Chinese nationals spend an average of $1084, ranking 10th. Nigerians are the top African spenders, spending an average of $1498 per stay, ranking higher than Australians and only slightly below the French. https://www.fdiintelligence.com/article/76645

But 2021 is almost a new year for Aviation, "we start from 0"

For the year of 2017: https://issuu.com/businessdayresearch/d ... eport_2018 (page 25)

Hello

Anyone knows why this Air Senegal A330neo (leased from Hifly Malta) has operated flights between Islamabad and Paris ?

At Paris Cdg i see some Hifly A330s operating flights for PIA


https://twitter.com/rnavspotters/status ... 9438745605

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/9h-szn

I have asked my question in other A.net thread

Thanks

Air Senegal plans to launch flights to the USA in September 2021

https://onemileatatime.com/air-senegal-washington/

DSS has a new terminal and a good geographical location. If Air Senegal can somehow arrange for more regional flights then I can see these flights eventually become a success. Of course, it all depends how much the government is willing to invest.

Blerg wrote:

DSS has a new terminal and a good geographical location. If Air Senegal can somehow arrange for more regional flights then I can see these flights eventually become a success. Of course, it all depends how much the government is willing to invest.

Agreed, although it'll also be dependent on what network they can build in the US. Delta have increased capacity and have an immense network to feed in on the US side.

evanb wrote:

Blerg wrote:

DSS has a new terminal and a good geographical location. If Air Senegal can somehow arrange for more regional flights then I can see these flights eventually become a success. Of course, it all depends how much the government is willing to invest.

Agreed, although it'll also be dependent on what network they can build in the US. Delta have increased capacity and have an immense network to feed in on the US side.

What destinations could work for them in the US? I suppose New York is the single biggest market but the area around DC has a large African population. If they are going for transfers that might be an option for them. That said, from what I remember, Air Senegal has a relatively weak African network.

Blerg wrote:

evanb wrote:

Blerg wrote:

DSS has a new terminal and a good geographical location. If Air Senegal can somehow arrange for more regional flights then I can see these flights eventually become a success. Of course, it all depends how much the government is willing to invest.

Agreed, although it'll also be dependent on what network they can build in the US. Delta have increased capacity and have an immense network to feed in on the US side.

What destinations could work for them in the US? I suppose New York is the single biggest market but the area around DC has a large African population. If they are going for transfers that might be an option for them. That said, from what I remember, Air Senegal has a relatively weak African network.

Aren’t they looking at DC? SA used to fly it and I saw some articles on here last year that signalled they were interested

Blerg wrote:

What destinations could work for them in the US? I suppose New York is the single biggest market but the area around DC has a large African population.

The top 10 US markets from Senegal are New York and Washington by a long way, then Atlanta comfortably in third, followed by Cincinnati (that surprised me), Columbus (another surprise), Boston, Seattle, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

B747-437B wrote:

Blerg wrote:

What destinations could work for them in the US? I suppose New York is the single biggest market but the area around DC has a large African population.

The top 10 US markets from Senegal are New York and Washington by a long way, then Atlanta comfortably in third, followed by Cincinnati (that surprised me), Columbus (another surprise), Boston, Seattle, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

I can't see how they can access any market beyond their entry point into the US. The whole thing seems extremely far-fetched to me.

AF022 wrote:

I can't see how they can access any market beyond their entry point into the US. The whole thing seems extremely far-fetched to me.

I suppose whatever they might be able to reach via a codeshare with an American partner, otherwise it'll just be a vanity project. I don't think any of the non-stop city pairs would likely be big enough to make it work by itself.

Could it be that they have no real use for the A330neo? From what I understood it is mostly used to fly to European destinations that could easily be reached by A320neo or A321neo?

Hello.
Anyone know why 2x Oman Air A332 flew into ACC today/yesterday. Both just took off one after another

Anyone know why 2x A332 Oman Air where in Accra for? They both just took off within minutes of each other

Air Senegal will launch flights to Douala (Cameroon), Libreville (Gabon) and Cotonou (Benin), as of March 28, 2021.

I just saw that the company has no destination in Central Africa . It will break the monopoly of Asky and Air Cote d'Ivoire and they will becompetition on Dakar-Libreville with Mauritania Airlines which makes Nouakchott-Dakar-Bamako-Libreville

https://www.businessincameroon.com/publ ... ch-29-2021

It will be probably the longest flight for an A319: Dakar-Cotonou-Douala-Libreville, a flight of 07:35. The timetables do not allow for connections on the HC Europe network. The goal is to take the trafic between West / Central Africa

soups wrote:

Anyone know why 2x A332 Oman Air where in Accra for? They both just took off within minutes of each other

Porbably beacause Oman has closed boarders for Ghana and they operated repatriation flights few days before the closure


https://www.reuters.com/article/health- ... SKBN2AN0BZ

https://www.primenewsghana.com/general- ... today.html

General workers at Kotoka International Airport in Accra will supposedly go on strike indefinitely to demand the removal of the Managing Director for alleged mismanagement and abuse of office.

rukundo wrote:

Air Senegal will launch flights to Douala (Cameroon), Libreville (Gabon) and Cotonou (Benin), as of March 28, 2021.

I just saw that the company has no destination in Central Africa . It will break the monopoly of Asky and Air Cote d'Ivoire and they will becompetition on Dakar-Libreville with Mauritania Airlines which makes Nouakchott-Dakar-Bamako-Libreville

https://www.businessincameroon.com/publ ... ch-29-2021

It will be probably the longest flight for an A319: Dakar-Cotonou-Douala-Libreville, a flight of 07:35. The timetables do not allow for connections on the HC Europe network. The goal is to take the trafic between West / Central Africa

Is there enough traffic between Dakar and Cotonou/Douala to fill an aircraft when they have no connectivity to Europe?

AF022 wrote:

rukundo wrote:

Air Senegal will launch flights to Douala (Cameroon), Libreville (Gabon) and Cotonou (Benin), as of March 28, 2021.

I just saw that the company has no destination in Central Africa . It will break the monopoly of Asky and Air Cote d'Ivoire and they will becompetition on Dakar-Libreville with Mauritania Airlines which makes Nouakchott-Dakar-Bamako-Libreville

https://www.businessincameroon.com/publ ... ch-29-2021

It will be probably the longest flight for an A319: Dakar-Cotonou-Douala-Libreville, a flight of 07:35. The timetables do not allow for connections on the HC Europe network. The goal is to take the trafic between West / Central Africa

Is there enough traffic between Dakar and Cotonou/Douala to fill an aircraft when they have no connectivity to Europe?

Observing the schedule of this new service to central Africa, it is not well connected with HC services to/from Europa, especially on the southbound (Europe-Africa):

DKR COO 00.15 03.45
COO DLA 04.30 06.05
DLA LBV 06.50 07.50

LBV DLA 08.35 09.35
DLA COO 10.20 11.55
COO DKR 12.40 16.10

Will HC have rights to sell this intra sectors? They will compete with Air Burkina, Rwandair and MAI which fly direct between LBV and COO.

The gabon airline Afrijet resume its regional operations, since last 16th February, with the ATR72, on the following routes, as indicated in its facebook page:

Libreville-Douala: Twice weekly;
Libreville-Yaoundé: Twice weekly;
Libreville-São Tomé: Twice weekly;
Libreville-Brazzaville: Twice weekly from 26-Feb-2021;
Libreville-Pointe Noire: Twice weekly from 02-Mar-2021.

Over the weekend, Air Senegal took delivery of its 2nd Airbus A321Ceo and published today that due to high demand, it’s services to Barcelona and Casablanca will be increased from 3 to 4 weekly flights using this aircraft type effective March 27th.

Flights will operate on Tue Thu Sat Sun offering convenient connections via Dakar to Abidjan Conakry Bamako Banjul Ziggachoir and Nouakchott.

Air Senegal is the first African airline to offer a premium lie flat business class seat product on board a narrow body aircraft. It’s A321ceo seats 165 passengers with 16 in business and 149 in economy each respectively.

Israir A320 spotted in ACC today, flew in this morning and heading back tonight back to TLV.

Taking diplomats back to TLV for vaccination

B747-437B wrote:

eastafspot wrote:

That's a lot for the Senegal government, how can they afford it ?

How does any African government afford a subsidised national airline? Relative to Air Cote D'Ivoire and Rwandair, this seems to be a good deal for the poor taxpayer.

This is a sensitive topic, but it appears that French influence at Air Cote d'Ivoire is huge. Which might be why they have an airline with long term prospects. By contrast, French influence at Camair Co or Cameroon Airlines seems less and seemed less. And Camair Co is here today, gone tomorrow. (Note, I am a member of the fiery "No to neo-colonialism" school, by the way.)

behramjee wrote:

Over the weekend, Air Senegal took delivery of its 2nd Airbus A321Ceo and published today that due to high demand, it’s services to Barcelona and Casablanca will be increased from 3 to 4 weekly flights using this aircraft type effective March 27th.

Flights will operate on Tue Thu Sat Sun offering convenient connections via Dakar to Abidjan Conakry Bamako Banjul Ziggachoir and Nouakchott.

Air Senegal is the first African airline to offer a premium lie flat business class seat product on board a narrow body aircraft. It’s A321ceo seats 165 passengers with 16 in business and 149 in economy each respectively.

Isn't Air Senegal operating Dakar-Casablanca-Barcelona without traffic rights Casablanca-Barcelona? If they have combined two routings into one it doesn't sound like the route is doing very well.

AF022 wrote:

behramjee wrote:

Over the weekend, Air Senegal took delivery of its 2nd Airbus A321Ceo and published today that due to high demand, it’s services to Barcelona and Casablanca will be increased from 3 to 4 weekly flights using this aircraft type effective March 27th.

Flights will operate on Tue Thu Sat Sun offering convenient connections via Dakar to Abidjan Conakry Bamako Banjul Ziggachoir and Nouakchott.

Air Senegal is the first African airline to offer a premium lie flat business class seat product on board a narrow body aircraft. It’s A321ceo seats 165 passengers with 16 in business and 149 in economy each respectively.

Isn't Air Senegal operating Dakar-Casablanca-Barcelona without traffic rights Casablanca-Barcelona? If they have combined two routings into one it doesn't sound like the route is doing very well.

If the route combination wasnt doing well then it firstly wouldnt have been upgraded from an A319 to an A321 and secondly nor would its frequencies be increased from 3 to 4 weekly. Hope this clarifies any doubt you may have had

To me this is strange. Why combine the flight then? Payload?

Nice to see Air Senegal do well. I wonder if increased demand is from passengers exiting in Senegal or continuing their journey to some other destination.

Air Cairo the Egyptair low cost airlines will add flights to Conakry** and Niamey, the next winter.

https://www.aaco.org/media-center/news/ ... via-niamey

If you visit the website of Air Cairo, you can see the Egyptair destinations. Others destinations in Africa not served by Egyptair or Air Cairo in the list are:

Lilongwe (Malawi), Djibouti and Kinshasa (DR Congo). It seems that Egytpair Group is planning a huge expansion in Africa.

In Africa MS serves: Casablanca, Tunis, Algiers, Amsara (Eritrea), Juba (Southh Sudan), Khartoum (Sudan), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Lagos (Nigeria), Abuja (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), N’Djamena (Chad), Douala (Cameroon), Nairobi (Kenya), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Entebbe (Uganda), Addis Baba (Ethiopia), Johannesburg and Kigali (Rwanda)

Egytpair eyes Dakar Cairo service https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/6/92 ... ight-route

Egytpair flights to West Africa and Central Africa are operated in the daylight, while flights to East Africa and Southern Africa are operated in the night, it will enable good connections between West and East Africa at Cairo like Kigali-Cairo-Dakar, probably better than a Kigali-Brussels-Dakar with Brussels Airlines ^^ (UE airlines provide sometimes better fares than African Airlines and despite long trip, people book flights)

**Guinea Conkary is still a well-served market: Emirates, Tunis Air, Turkish, Royal Air Maroc, TAP Air Portugal, Air France, Asky, Air Senegal, Ethiopian, Air Cote d'Ivoire, ... Too bad Brussels Airlines has stopped his flights

Africa World Airlines has completed the first demonstration flight by a jet to the new airport in Ho, Ghana

https://newsghana.com.gh/africa-world-a ... o-airport/

the fourth new destination in Africa announced by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.

Qatar Airways is currently building a strong network in Africa.

We will surely have a fight, Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Qatar Airways in Africa. Maybe Air France behind. It is probably the only European company to be able to fight against the 3 others. Emirates ? I am waiting for to see because with the arrival of 787 they will probably open new routes in Africa: I am thinking of Maputo or Kigali, or Monrovia or Freetown. On Emirates.com you can find their contact offices at Monrovia (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... W/monrovia) (, Freetown (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... A/freetown) and Kigali (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... gl/kigali/). I don't konw if it means something



Qatar Airways to launch 3 weekly flights to Abidjan from June 16

Doha: Qatar Airways has announced it will operate three weekly flights to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire via Accra from June 16 2021 becoming the fourth new destination in Africa announced by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.

The Abidjan service will be operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner featuring 22 seats in Business Class and 232 seats in Economy Class.

https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/artic ... om-June-16

Sentra Airways, a British start-up airline, intends to commence 6x weekly flights from Manchester to Accra from September 2021.

http://sentraairways.com/

B747-437B wrote:

Sentra Airways, a British start-up airline, intends to commence 6x weekly flights from Manchester to Accra from September 2021.

http://sentraairways.com/

Seems like they are targeting passengers from New York by offering connections to Ghana via MAN. Do we know what equipment they plan on using?

Blerg wrote:

Do we know what equipment they plan on using?

On social media, they claim A330-200.

Bangui based airline Simb Airlines Corporation started flights on 18 Apr21, using a King Air B200GT

Video in French: https://www.facebook.com/Simb.Airlines. ... 3004905082

They say that they will add 2 65 seater aircraft in comming weeks (ATR ? CRJ ? Dash ? ERJ ?)

They aim to provide flights in Central Africa, but on their booking engine you can see Johannesburg, Accra, Tunis or Kigali as others destinations


Central Africa now has a private jet airline

A new glow is appearing in Central Africa with a private jet airline: Simb Airlines Corporation.

Simb Airlines Corporation SA is the first private jet airline in Central Africa; founded by Cameroonian SIMB Émile, CEO of Global Investment Trading (GIT). Located in Bangui, Central African Republic; it will begin its first flights to destinations in countries: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Chad and Equatorial Guinea. In addition, it intends to expand throughout the sub-region and the entire continent.

Indeed, the company Simb Airlines Corporation specializes in business flights, medical evacuation flights and charter flights; enough to allow everyone according to their needs to benefit from an enormous saving in time, assured comfort and guaranteed autonomy.


https://translate.google.com/translate? ... -jet-prive

The CEO has also a crypto money company. and some controversies...https://translate.google.com/translate? ... rfait_Simb

Official announcement from IAD airport concerning the upcoming launch of Air Senegal's 2 weekly IAD via JFK service

https://www.mwaa.com/about/air-senegal- ... al-airport

[b] Transporting vaccines from Bejing to Dakar, Air Senegal will make the longest commercial flight of an Airbus A330neo [/ b]

The Casamance, named Air Senegal's A330neo type aircraft, left Rome on May 12 for Beijing, the Chinese capital, for the transport of vaccines destined for Senegal.

The plane will leave China on Friday May 14 with 300,000 doses of vaccine from the Sinopharm laboratory, donated by the People's Republic of China to Senegal.

Beyond the symbolism linked to the vaccine transport mission, Air Senegal will have the badge of honor to perform, through this operation, the longest commercial flight operated by an Airbus A330neo. 4:00 p.m. is the length of this flight between China and Senegal.

https://flyairsenegal.com/transport-de- ... TVoFqoYNB0

We are often focus on failed Africans airlines, but It's still good to see that some airports in Africa are making major upgrade. Improving infrastructure and skilled staff are among the conditions that will enable to the African aviation to develop



The new terminal at Niamey is pretty great:

https://twitter.com/AirportNiamey

Monrovia (Liberia)

https://beautifulliberia.tumblr.com/pos ... rt-liberia

N’Djamena (Chad)


https://tchadone.com/coronavirus-laerop ... -25-avril/

Sorry to not be in the good region

Antananarivo Airport



Dar Es Salaam




https://www.baminternational.com/en/pro ... m-tanzania

United has re-launched its flights to Ghana after a break of 9 years

https://simpleflying.com/united-dc-ghana-inaugural/

B747-437B wrote:

United has re-launched its flights to Ghana after a break of 9 years

https://simpleflying.com/united-dc-ghana-inaugural/

Excellent news because greater competition drives down fares!

If one had to pick top 2 airlines that could feasibly start (or re-start) Accra operations, here are mine:

1) Virgin Atlantic LGW. I say LGW instead of Heathrow because transatlantic connecting traffic volumes are diminished by greater competition from AF / KL / SN / DL / UA. Targeting UK bound traffic would make more sense and most of it is headed to London. That said, I know many from Ghana want LHR. Also, now that Air Namibia is no more, LGW-ACC-WDH could be quite the route. Astute observers would notice the plane would not have to carry as much fuel for the full journey so route economics can be vastly improved from a weight savings perspective. Namibia is a smaller country with smaller VFR traffic than Ghana, but as vaccinations ramp up, tourism to Namibia will soar from present levels!

2) Air Canada YYZ. AC has no Africa routes. A YYZ-ACC-LOS or YYZ-ACC-JNB could be feasible. They have 787-8/9s that could make the hop across the Atlantic and could funnel traffic away from European and American carriers for these ACC/LOS/JNB. Furthermore, Midwest and Western North America (even Mexico) could prefer the transit through Toronto as it falls close to the great circle path headed to West and Southern Africa. Ethiopian Airlines is eating their lunch connecting passengers across Africa who backtrack from Addis hub to Lagos and Accra. Why not fly to Accra and partner with Africa World Airlines for regional destinations?

Honorable mention (or very wishful thinking):
3) TAM GRU. TAM could make its first foray outside of Australia, Europe and Americas to start a Dubai or Mumbai flight with a stop in Accra much the same way Ethiopian stops in Lome. Or, alternatively, China Southern could start a Guangzhou/Shenzhen-LOS-ACC flight to compete with Ethiopian. Just throwing this out there. No flame zone

So, thoughts?

ghdc10 wrote:

Also, now that Air Namibia is no more, LGW-ACC-WDH could be quite the route. Astute observers would notice the plane would not have to carry as much fuel for the full journey so route economics can be vastly improved from a weight savings perspective. Namibia is a smaller country with smaller VFR traffic than Ghana, but as vaccinations ramp up, tourism to Namibia will soar from present levels!

Traffic to Namibia from Europe has been predominantly from Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and Belgium rather than from the UK. That is not likely to change. Even when Air Namibia operated to Gatwick, the traffic was overwhelmingly low-yield connections from South Africa. Furthermore, Accra to Windhoek traffic is negligible (around 2 pax per day each way) so the tag leg from Ghana would not be viable. The UK market from Ghana remains strong though. BA has only 64% of the market share and fills only 54% of seats with O&D traffic from London so there is opportunity there. The London market accounts for ~80% of the UK-Ghana market and the catchment area for London-Ghana O&D is actually skewed in favour of Gatwick by a 3:2 ratio. However, the yield differential between direct and indirect players is significant (nearly 100% premium) so a new entrant may struggle to achieve the combination of price point and volume needed for profitability.

Air Canada YYZ. AC has no Africa routes. A YYZ-ACC-LOS or YYZ-ACC-JNB could be feasible. They have 787-8/9s that could make the hop across the Atlantic and could funnel traffic away from European and American carriers for these ACC/LOS/JNB. Furthermore, Midwest and Western North America (even Mexico) could prefer the transit through Toronto as it falls close to the great circle path headed to West and Southern Africa. Ethiopian Airlines is eating their lunch connecting passengers across Africa who backtrack from Addis hub to Lagos and Accra. Why not fly to Accra and partner with Africa World Airlines for regional destinations?

Air Canada did fly to both Morocco and Algeria before the pandemic, but not to sub-Saharan Africa. The market to Canada is primarily from Nigeria rather than Ghana, but there is (was) little appetite at Air Canada for a Lagos route as of a couple years ago. SAA was however extremely keen to develop this route in partnership with AWA as a complement to the Washington service. Unfortunately we know how that ended.

TAM GRU. TAM could make its first foray outside of Australia, Europe and Americas to start a Dubai or Mumbai flight with a stop in Accra much the same way Ethiopian stops in Lome. Or, alternatively, China Southern could start a Guangzhou/Shenzhen-LOS-ACC flight to compete with Ethiopian. Just throwing this out there. No flame zone

TAM (LATAM) was flying to Johannesburg pre-pandemic so they have some experience in Africa. The Ethiopian attempt to fly Brazil via Lome was a total and utter failure, even with the ASKY feeds. The market is nowhere near large enough from West Africa yet.

Appreciate the logical assesment B747-437B. At the very least, sounds like the new Ghana based airline will have a shot at international traffic from London, and connections to Nigeria and Southern Africa from Canada and some European destinations as well. Hopefully the service levels are better than Egypt Air which has some shocking reviews on YouTube. Cheers!

B747-437B wrote:

Sentra Airways, a British start-up airline, intends to commence 6x weekly flights from Manchester to Accra from September 2021.

http://sentraairways.com/

Not sure it will ever see the light of day. https://onemileatatime.com/sentra-airways/

Tchadia Airlines

One of the companies member of Ethiopian Airlines group.

The company has suspended flights as its Q400 is in Ethiopia for maintenance. She plans to add a Q400 and a B737-700

Without an aircraft, Tchadia Airlines temporarily suspends its operations

(Ecofin Agency) - In service since 2018, Tchadia Airlines has succeeded in boosting air traffic in the country. But the joint venture between Ethiopian Airlines and the state of Chad is now facing a capacity shortage that is hampering its growth plans.


https://7dvlnf2pxahfp3ipyclxwcfqn4-ac4c ... operations

Air Senegal

According to the CEO, A220s (that will arrive later this year) will replace some aircraft. I guess they will phase out A319s and their sole B737-500
leased from Romanian Blue Air.

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... 47420.html


TICV, (Spanish group Binter) which replaced Cape Verde national flag carrier (TACV) on domestic service few years ago suspended service few days ago, due to COVID.

Angola Airlines BestFly will replace it.

Cabo Verde: Angolan airline BestFly promises cheaper domestic flights


The chief executive of BestFly, the Angolan group that today took over the public service concession for inter-island air transport in Cabo Verde, said its objectives were to lower the price of flights and stay beyond the six-month emergency contract.

“What we committed to with the government of Cabo Verde was to find a solution in which the state of Cabo Verde had no expenses and we, as a company, had no expenses. Our aim is to reach breakeven [financial balance],” Nuno Pereira told Lusa in Praia.

The group was chosen by the Cape Verdean government, after a market consultation, to take over as of May 17 an emergency six-month concession for the inter-island public passenger air transport service. The choice was announced on Friday by the government, given the absence, for several weeks, of tickets and flights scheduled by Transportes Interilhas de Cabo Verde (TICV, of Spanish group Binter) from May 17 – in an apparent dispute with the government, claiming financial support due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic – the latter being the only company that operated, for almost three years, the internal air links.

https://www.macaubusiness.com/cabo-verd ... c-flights/