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Air Côte d’Ivoire appoints new Chief Executive Officer

Air Côte d'Ivoire appoints new Chief Executive Officer

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 .

Last week, the airline reported turnover of XOF48 billion…

Nigeria has granted daily traffic rights to British Airways , Virgin Atlantic , and Turkish Airlines , while continuing to ban other European carriers over reciprocal visa issues.

From October 2, British Airways and Turkish Airlines, along with Ethiopian Airlines , RwandAir , ASKY Airlines , and Air Côte d’Ivoire have approval to operate daily flights to Lagos and Abuja , according to the latest flight schedule update from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

Africa World Airlines has approval to operate twice-daily flights to Lagos and daily ones to Abuja; while Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways , Delta Air Lines , and Kenya Airways may now fly daily to Lagos, according to the approval signed by NCAA Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, Captain Musa Nuhu.

Meanwhile, the West African country continues to blacklist Lufthansa , Air France , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines over travel restrictions imposed on Nigerian tourist visa holders by the European Union. This despite a meeting between Nigeria’s Aviation Ministry and EU ministers last month when…

The Government of Liberia has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ghanaian start-up Goldstar Airlines ( Accra ) over the proposed establishment of a new Liberian national airline.An official statement did not reveal the exact shareholder breakdown of Lone Star Air ( Monrovia Roberts ) let alone a potential launch date. However, it did confirm that Lone Star Air would serve 11 West […]

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