Air Côte d’Ivoire Airbus A320-200 Also on ch-aviation
Air Côte d’Ivoire (HF, Abidjan ) took delivery of its first A320-200N on February 18, 2021, after TU-TSX (msn 10197) was ferried directly from Toulouse Blagnac to Abidjan .
The jet is powered by CFM International LEAP 1-A engines and features 148 seats including 16 in business class and 132 in economy.
The majority-state-owned carrier will use the A320neo on its regional network connecting Abidjan with destinations in Senegal ( Dakar Blaise Diagne Int’l ), Gabon ( Libreville ), and Cameroon ( Yaoundé Nsimalen and Douala ). Going forward, it will also deploy the aircraft to South Africa. Its current route to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo is operated via Luanda or Kinshasa N’Djili , the ch-aviation schedules module shows.
Air Côte d’Ivoire, which is 11%-owned by Air France , currently operates three A319-100 s, two A320-200 s, and four DHC-8-Q400 s. Besides the newly delivered A320neo, it also has two A319-100N s on firm order from Airbus .
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