Béninois carrier Westair Bénin (WH) has announced plans to expand operations out of its Cotonou base to Dakar, Conakry, Banjul and Lagos having already announced a greatly expanded network and timetable in mid December.
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Showing posts with label Brazzaville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazzaville. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
■ TUNISIA: Tunisair to axe 1'700 jobs, dramatically grow Africa network as part of plans to return to profitability.
Rabah Jrad, the CEO of Tunisian national carrier Tunisair (TU), has said the airline intends to reduce its workforce of 8'500 employees by 1'700 workers between 2013 and 2014, as part of a restructuring plan to help reduce its bloated payroll, following a USD98.3million (EUR77.2million) loss for 2011.
Labels:
Brazzaville,
Burkina Faso,
Congo Brazzaville,
Finances,
Ouagadougou,
Pointe Noire,
Rabah Jrad,
Redundancy,
Tunis,
Tunisair,
Tunisia
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
► COTE D'IVOIRE: Air Cote d'Ivoire to add an Embraer E170 as further routes in West Africa are announced.
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Abidjan,
Accra,
Air Cote d'Ivoire,
Bamako,
Benin,
Brazzaville,
Conakry,
Congo Brazzaville,
Cote d'Ivoire,
Cotonou,
E170,
Embraer,
Gabon,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Libreville,
Lome,
Mali,
Togo
Thursday, December 6, 2012
► RWANDA: RwandAir announces modifications to its NW 2012/2013 schedule.
Rwandair (WB) has implemented various modifications to its operations following the launch of
its 2012/13 Northern Winter season schedule on 28 October 2012.
Labels:
Brazzaville,
Bujumbura,
Cyangugu,
Dar es Salaam,
Dubai,
Gisenyi,
Johannesburg,
Kigali,
Kilimanjaro,
Lagos,
Libreville,
Mombasa,
Mwanza,
Nairobi,
Rwanda,
RwandAir
Saturday, December 1, 2012
► CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Aéro Service Ilyushin IL76 skids off runway during heavy storm at Brazzaville; at least 30 dead.
Labels:
AéroService,
Brazzaville,
Congo Brazzaville,
Il76,
Ilyushin,
Incident,
Pointe Noire
Friday, November 2, 2012
► COTE D'IVOIRE: Air Cote d'Ivoire announces further destination launches.
Following on from our post yesterday, Air Cote d'Ivoire (HF) have announced further details about their intended network launch, set for 12 November 2012.
Labels:
Abidjan,
Air Burkina,
Air Cote d'Ivoire,
Bamako,
Brazzaville,
Cameroon,
Conakry,
Congo Brazzaville,
Cote d'Ivoire,
Cotonou,
Dakar,
Douala,
Gabon,
Guinea,
Libreville,
Lomé,
Mali,
Ouagadougou,
Senegal,
Togo
Friday, August 31, 2012
► CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): EC Air Congo to start Douala, Cotonou, Ollombo following last week's Paris service launch.
As previously reported by The African Aviation Tribune, Congolese private carrier Equatorial Congo Airlines, better known as EC Air Congo (LC), last week Friday 24 August, inaugurated its first international route: a 3x weekly Brazzaville, Congo - Paris (Charles de Gaulle) service using a Boeing 757-200 leased from Switzerland's PrivatAir.
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757,
Benin,
Boeing,
Brazzaville,
Cameroon,
Congo Brazzaville,
Cotonou,
Douala,
Equatorial Congo Airlines,
France,
Ollombo,
Paris CDG,
Route
Sunday, August 26, 2012
► RWANDA: RwandAir announces CRJ900 routes; introduces other additional frequencies.
With the first of its two new Bombardier CRJ900NGs (MSN# 15286| 9XR-WH) due in by the middle of October 2012 and the second due in mid November, so Rwandan national carrier RwandAir (WB) has outlined the future routes they will be used on, in addition to various new frequencies to come into effect from 31 October 2012.
RwandAir CRJ900 '9XR-WH' |
RwandAir CRJ900NG Routes
RwandAir: Kigali, Rwanda – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
-Effective 31 October 2012
- WB440 KGL1730 – 2030DAR CR9 | 1234567
- WB441 DAR2100 – 2200KGL CR9 | 1234567
Kigali, Rwanda – Entebbe, Uganda
-Effective 31 October 2012
- WB422 KGL1440 – 1625EBB CR9 | 1234567
- WB423 EBB1655 – 1640KGL CR9 | 1234567
Kigali, Rwanda – Nairobi, Kenya
-Effective 31 October 2012
- WB404 KGL0155 – 0410NBO CR9 | 1234567
- WB406 KGL1455 – 1710NBO CR9 | 1357
- WB402 KGL1455 – 1710NBO CR9 | 246
- WB405 NBO1155 – 1210KGL CR9 | 1234567
- WB407 NBO2125 – 2140KGL CR9 | 1357
- WB407 NBO2125 – 2140KGL CR9 | 246
Additionally, various new frequencies have been announced:
- Entebbe, Uganda: from 17x to 33x weekly flights.
- Brazzaville, Congo & Libreville, Gabon: 3x to 5x weekly flights.
- Dubai, UAE : from 6x to 13x weekly flights.
- Lagos, Nigeria: from 3x to 7x weekly flights.
- Johannesburg, South Africa : from 8x to 10x weekly flights.
Kigali, Rwanda – Dubai
-Planned service increase from 6x weekly to daily. The daily service operates nonstop in both directions, replacing 3x weekly nonstop and 1-stop service via Mombasa, Kenya.
- WB300 KGL0045 – 0830DXB 738 | 1234567
- WB301 DXB0950 – 1335KGL 738 | 2467
- WB301 DXB1010 – 1335KGL 738 | 2467
-Planned service increase from 8 to 10 weekly
- WB100 KGL0100 – 0500JNB 738 | 123567
- WB100 KGL0100 – 0500JNB 735 | 4
- WB102 KGL1445 – 1845JNB 738 | 356
- WB101 JNB0800 – 1200KGL 738 | 123567
- WB101 JNB0800 – 1200KGL 735 | 4
- WB103 JNB1930 – 2330KGL 738 | 356
-Planned service increase from 3x weekly to daily
- WB200 KGL1435 – 1745LOS 738 | 1234567
- WB201 LOS1830 – 2340KGL 738 | 1234567
Labels:
Bombardier,
Brazzaville,
Congo Brazzaville,
CRJ 900,
Dar es Salaam,
Dubai,
Entebbe,
Gabon,
Johannesburg,
Kenya,
Kigali,
Lagos,
Libreville,
Nairobi,
Nigeria,
Rwanda,
RwandAir,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Uganda
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
►► EQUATORIAL GUINEA: CEIBA Intercontinental waves Adios to its 777.
The Boeing 777-200LR (3C-LLS) of Equatorial Guinean carrier CEIBA Intercontinental (C2) (with what had to be one of the coolest liveries ever on a Boeing 777) today left Malabo, Equatorial Guinea for Lisbon, Portugal to be re-registered under White Airways (WI), a Portuguese leisure and charter flight operator out of Lisbon, becoming CS-TQX on the Portuguese registry.
(ex) CEIBA Intercontinental Boeing 777-200LR (sabian404) |
It is unclear, however, what purpose the 777 served whilst under the CEIBA name, as the Equato-guinean flag-carrier is on the European Union's Banned Operator's List. In all honesty, it wouldn't be a massive surprise if it turned out that the aircraft had originally been bought for exclusive Presidential/VIP usage given Equatorial-Guinean President Teodoro Obiang's family's penchant for the high life and luxury which of late, has come under increasing scrutiny from the international media.
With the departure of the 777, CEIBA is now left with a fleet of two ATR 72-500s, one ATR 42 - 500, one ATR 42-320 and three Boeing 737-800 on order whilst its network consists of Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Bata (Equatorial Guinea), Cotonou, Douala, Accra, Abidjan, Lomé, Libreville, Pointe Noire and Brazzaville.
[UPDATE]: SkyLinerAviation informs us that the 777 has now been re-registered as CS-TQX and is to be ferried back to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea as of 21 August 2012. Hopefully the plane will now return to operation for CEIBA and we'll see it in possible international service in the near future. Watch this space for further details!
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777,
Abidjan,
Accra,
Bata,
Boeing,
Brazzaville,
CEIBA Intercontinental,
Cotonou,
Douala,
Equatorial Guinea,
Libreville,
Lisbon,
Lomé,
Malabo,
Pointe Noire,
Portugal,
Update,
White Airways
Monday, July 23, 2012
► CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): New regional carrier Air CEMAC eyes a January 2013 launch date.
Following a recent meeting of Civil Aviation Ministers of the Economic and Monetary Community of African States (CEMAC) consisting of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Chad, a decision was reached in which Air France was chosen as the airline's new strategic and financial partner replacing South African Airways (which was terminated in February owing to "deep differences of opinion") who themselves had replaced Royal Air Maroc and Brussels Airlines.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
► SOUTH AFRICA: SAA pushes further into Africa with Abidjan & Brazzaville.
Monday, June 4, 2012
► CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): EC Air to start Brazzaville - Paris.
Labels:
757,
Boeing,
Brazzaville,
Congo Brazzaville,
Equatorial Congo Airlines,
Paris,
Privatair,
Route
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