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Jet fuel situation is improving at GOBD/DSS, and progressively also at downtown gas stations, though the NOTAM remains in force.

A0613/22 NOTAMN
Q) GOOO/QFUXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/1440N01704W005
A) GOBD B) 2204212048 C) 2205172359 EST
E) DUE TO DISRUPTIONS IN SUPPLY OF JET A1 FUEL, ALL AIR OPERATORS OPERATING TO BLAISE DIAGNE AIRPORT ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE NECESSARY PROVISIONS TO CARRY ENOUGH QUANTITY OF FUEL TO ENSURE AUTONOMY OF THIER NEXT OPERATIONS FROM THESE AIRPORTS FOLLOWING ARRIVAL. EXEMPTIONS WITH LIMITED QUANTITY OF FUEL WILL BE GRANTED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS UPON REQUEST AND APPROVAL OF THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY(ANACIM

SN as resumed the normal SN203/204 as BRU-DSS-BJL-DSS-BRU. Also AF flies again direct back to CDG.

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Botswana and Mozambique could be Emirates' next destinations in Africa. According to the Botswana press, negotiations are underway for a Dubai-Maputo-Gaborone-Dubai (or the other way around).

The war between Emirates and Qatar Airways is declared in Africa. Etihad seems to reduce its ops in Africa with the closures of Dar Es Salaam, Entebbe, Addis Ababa before covid and the non-resumption of its route to Lagos and the closure of its route to Nairobi a few months ago. There was the opening of a route to Zanzibar.

Saudi seems to be focused in East Africa with the opening of the route to Entebbe. Maybe in the medium term, it could lead to new routes from JED to Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam and Kigali (see the news about Kenya Airways / Saudia code share:
https://www.ceoafrica.co.ke/kenya-airwa ... -airlines/)

https://www.mmegi.bw/business/caab-in-t ... news-24986
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CAA/Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation (DR Congo) took delivery of its 2nd A330 this month. A330-300 9H-AJNN ex China Airlines B-18351

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TAP Air Portugal plans to add new destinations in sub-Saharan Africa, for 2023. With the A321LR they can reach many new destinations in Africa with a smallest capacity than with the A330.

Across the Atlantic, Star Alliance member TAP serves eight destinations in eight countries across sub-Saharan Africa. “Africa has been the most reliable market during the crisis, honestly,” Ourmières-Widener said. But with more airlines worldwide looking for new markets, other carriers are also aiming for a wider footprint in Africa. The TAP CEO acknowledges the growing competition, “but I think people always underestimate what [Africa] means from an operational standpoint [for an airline] and also organization,” she said.

TAP is keen to expand the African market further. “We are willing, because there are some routes which are successful,” Ourmières-Widener said. “We are in discussions with a number of countries to prepare for summer 2023 with more frequencies, new destinations.”

https://samchui.com/2022/06/06/latest-f ... qOyvOzP2Uk

My bet (one of these countries)

West Africa : Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria

East Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya

Central Africa: Cameroon, DR Congo
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1st ever experimental flight on the new Luanda Airport happened today with a TAAG B777-300ER

Only in Portuguese (a 24min video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx82Q4saTkg
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French carrier Corsair should start Paris Orly-Cotonou (Benin) service from November 2022, 3 times a week. Currently Air France operates a 5 weekly service from Paris Cdg.

It will be their 3rd destinations in the region after Bamako and Abidjan

https://french-peopledaily-com-cn.trans ... r_pto=wapp
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Very decried at Blanrtye and Lilongwe, some people believing that the contract with Ethiopian Airlines is not honest, Malawi Airlines has just posted its first profit since its first flight, in july 2014.

The company is 49% owned by Ethiopian Airlines and 51% by the Malawi government.


Mw Airlines Profits After 7 Barren Years

The Airlines board chairperson George Partridge confirmed the development to Zodiak Online.

“Yes, I can confirm that Malawi Airlines has turned around, for the past nine months up to March 2022 we made a profit of about 4 million dollars, that compared to a loss of 4 million dollars the previous year,” said Partridge.

He said the losses came because the Airline was a startup company and that they projected to start making profits after a five year gestation period.

“It’s not a strange thing that the company was making losses, it was in the plan that in the first five years the company would make losses and then it would take off thereafter.”

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Air Peace suspends flights to South Africa over Aviation Fuel, visa delay https://dailytrust.com/just-in-air-peac ... visa-delay

China Flight: Passengers commend Air Peace, call for continuity https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/chi ... ontinuity/

Chadia Airlines, it's over
https://www-financialafrik-com.translat ... r_pto=wapp


Emirates Cuts Flight to Lagos Due to $85m Trapped Revenue https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2 ... d-revenue/

Top 100 busiest airports in Africa

UPDATED 2022-08-09

This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Africa measured by scheduled departures daily (and not number of passengers). Note that we have only accounted for scheduled passenger flights and not freighters or chartered flights. The numbers are the daily avarage from next week.

https://www.flightsfrom.com/top-100-airports-in-africa

https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 3921166337 & https://twitter.com/ACI_Africa/status/1 ... 2665310209

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rwandan-flyer wrote: 24 May 2022, 20:29 Botswana and Mozambique could be Emirates' next destinations in Africa. According to the Botswana press, negotiations are underway for a Dubai-Maputo-Gaborone-Dubai (or the other way around).

The war between Emirates and Qatar Airways is declared in Africa. Etihad seems to reduce its ops in Africa with the closures of Dar Es Salaam, Entebbe, Addis Ababa before covid and the non-resumption of its route to Lagos and the closure of its route to Nairobi a few months ago. There was the opening of a route to Zanzibar.

Saudi seems to be focused in East Africa with the opening of the route to Entebbe. Maybe in the medium term, it could lead to new routes from JED to Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam and Kigali (see the news about Kenya Airways / Saudia code share:
https://www.ceoafrica.co.ke/kenya-airwa ... -airlines/)

https://www.mmegi.bw/business/caab-in-t ... news-24986
Interesting thread on airliners (Emirates Airline expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa) about the future of Emirates in Africa as the airline has 2 more big competitors : Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways.

Someone published the P2P trafic (but for 2019) between some Africans destinations no served by Emirates and Dubai.

Kinshasa had the largest P2P market followed by Douala and quite surprising by Kigali. GBE - 3,000 (Gaboronne)

This is my comment:

Thanks a lot for these numbers. I didn't know that P2P between Kigali and Dubai was so high, but smaller compare to EBB, DAR and NBO. Even betting on connecting to & from India, UK, Germany, Belgium and USA i don't think that Emirates will able to get a decent load B777-300ER based on 3 times a week service via EBB, per exemple, right now.

I don't know what will the break even for Kigali service. Average 130-150 pax per flight out 350-360 seats ? Rwanda is a premium destination (MICE and Luxury tourism) i think they won't struggle to fill the 1st and Biz classes but what about the economy ?

However, i won't be suprised that Rwanda is among their potential destination in next few years, with the B787-9s.

Note that RwandAir serves Dubai daily and FlyDubai has operated flights to Kinshasa and Kigali in late 2010s and mid 2010s.




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Emirates to suspend Nigeria flights from September over trapped funds

Dubai's Emirates will suspend flights to Nigeria from next month over an inability to repatriate funds from Africa's most populous nation, the airline said on Thursday.

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The International Air Transport Association said in June Nigeria was withholding $450 million in revenue that international carriers operating in the country had earned

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/em ... 022-08-18/
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rwandan-flyer wrote: 04 Feb 2022, 18:52 Almost full flight for the 1st flight on an A330-300. SV announce the first flight via a Facebook post less than 2 weeks ago :o


Saudi Airlines launches direct flights to Uganda

Saudi Arabian carrier, Saudi Airlines, on Wednesday commenced direct flights from Riyadh to Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport.

The inaugural flight arrived in Entebbe at 7am with about 300 passengers aboard an Airbus 330-300, according to the airline, and was welcomed with a traditional gun salute.

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/bu ... da-3703070

The Middle East-East Africa capacities must surely be one of the largest in the world (classifying by region). I don't know if Saudi and Air Arabia have plans to serve Tanzania and Rwanda. But it's quite impressive. There is a lot of point-to-point but also a lot of connecting either intra airlibes or via code shares or interlines.

I wonder if we are not almost at the same level as Europe-East Africa flights (and there are still a lot of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish charters on Kenya and Tanzania) and surely above the above the East African -Rest of Africa capacaties (and they are Ethiopian, Kenya Airways and RwandAir).
The reservations are already closed. The last flight seems to have operated on August 01, 2022. :( (https://www.airportia.com/flights/sv490/kampala/riyadh/) . Flights were not great for connections to Europe, India, and the USA. With an arrival at RUH at 12:45 p.m., which means long layover, same thing if you fly to EBB, long layover at RUH, while the biggest base of SV is in Jeddah.

SV wanted probably to tap into the point-to-point estimated at 23,000 passengers. But it is a traffic mainly from Ugandans working in Saudi Arabia. There are not too many Saudi tourists in Uganda, unlike in Mauritius.

https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/br ... rica-link/

Quit sad, maybe with A320 / A321 with a tag on Dar Es Salaam or Kigali with better timetables, the route could be work well. Emirates / FlyDubai and Qatar Airways (with a little help from RwandAir to pick up pax via DOH) do not have too much to worry. For the past 10 years, Gulf Air and Etihad have tried to tickle them on Entebbe (EY, GF), Dar Es Salaam (EY), Addis Ababa (GF, EY) and Nairobi (GF, EY). Results: routes closed.

Air Arabia UAE and Oman Air are still there, but with a "small" networl, in the region.

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Very long flight for this TAAG Angola B737-700 from Barcelona to Luanda, today with the Dos Santos body on board (former Angola president died few months ago) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/1 ... y-appealed

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sn26567 wrote: 10 Sep 2021, 17:57 Air France has postponed until early December 2021 the inauguration of its new link between Paris and Maputo via Johannesburg with Boeing 777-300ER, due to travel restrictions.
Still in the plans but no longer tagged via Johannesburg (at least AF is trying to looking for another destination in the region).

Feasibility study to see if flights can be tagged via Windhoek (Namibia), Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) or Harare (Zimbabwe). Chat on Twitter.

Sikiliza Inbound DMC has often good informations about tourism and aviation in Zimbabwe. My brother was lucky to meet him in Zimbabwe a few years ago.

Sikiliza Inbound DMC
@Mlandeli_Ndlela
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KLM/Air France team will be in Zimbabwe this week for talks with a few tour operators. NO plans yet to resume the route.

Tjiyapo (answer to Sikiliza Inbound DMC)
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They can do Victoria Falls direct to Paris & Amsterdam & get better slots than @ortambo_int. @FlyAirZimbabwe here is an opportunity to code share & Start new alliances. Even Direct to Mauritius 🇲🇺 onwards to China 🇨🇳 is a viable option with chinese Airline. New routes are key


Sikiliza Inbound DMC answers to Tjiyapo

Basically Air France will fly to Maputo and are looking to combine it with either Harare, Vic Falls or Windhoek. They are still doing their studies.

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British Airways is threatening to leave Nigeria due trapped funds. BA serves Lagos (B777-200ER / 300ER) and Abuja (B777-200ER) both daily.

Trapped funds: British airways closes inventory in Nigeria


The British flag carrier, British Airways has given the federal government an ultimatum within when to pay its trapped funds or watch it pull out from Nigeria by December.

According to information gathered, on Friday, the British airline also closed its inventory this morning to ameliorate further accumulation of trapped funds in Nigeria and to henceforth commence issuance of tickets only in dollars.

The airline gave the directive during a business meeting held with the national executive council of the National Association of Travel Agencies (NANTA) where it declared its commitment to servicing the needs of travel agencies in Nigeria.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/trapped-fun ... n-nigeria/

Note that Nigeria is not the only country in Africa to deal with this pb:

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Gabon, Cameroon, Chad, Congo and Zimbabwe, putting further pressure on airlines as they struggle for survival.https://guardian.ng/business-services/a ... -hit-601m/

Kenya Airways missing $28m in forex payments Kenya’s national airline has told the BBC the amount of money it is trying to repatriate from Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria is $28m (£24m).: https://www.myjoyonline.com/kenya-airwa ... -payments/

top countries in Africa with blocked funds as of May 2022 also include Zimbabwe with $100m blocked funds, Algeria with $96m blocked funds, as well as Eritrea which has blocked $79m, and Ethiopia trapping $75m of airlines’ funds.https://aviationbusinessjournal.aero/al ... ease-funds
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Hello

I noticed that since few days, there are plenty flights from various Spanish cities to Luxor. Anyine knows why ? Thanks

Today

Flights from Barcelona (https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ft3712), Malaga, Madrid, Santiago Compostella. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airp ... r/arrivals

Other cities: Seville Valladolid, Bilbao: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms3916 & https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms3917

Some flights were also operated by Iberia
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Delta Air Lines will suspend its flights between New York JFK airport and Lagos on 04 October 2022 due to “the current demand environment.”
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Barbados in "advanced" talks with several airlines to get a route to the African continent. The goal is to have a route within 5 years, targeting the Caribbean-Africa traffic. Airlines selected by Barbados

Etihad Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways and RwandAir.

A lot of marketing work will be done as well as studies to estimate demand

If these flights will be operated, i think there will be a stopover in West Africa: Senegal? Nigeria? Ghana?

In recent years, there has been a desire to improve improve diplomatic & economic relations between the countries of the Caribbean (a majority of the people are descendants of slaves) and African countries. Some Caribbeans try to find their roots (memorial tourism)

https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/03/eff ... -barbados/

Barbados to host inaugural AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com ... ent-forum/

I wonder how many pax KLM sees transiting via AMS between Africa and the Caribbean, the same with Air France. I think Cuba, but also "French overseas departments" passing through CDG. At Cdg I see pax going to Panama (ok not in the Caribbean), especially from Luanda, Johannesburg and some destinations in West Africa.
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While Kenya Airways, which is suffering (reduced) losses, is trying to create an African LATAM,

While RwandAir (we have no data since 2019) but must also suffer losses. The airline has closed several routes: Juba, Abidjan, Mombasa, Dakar, Tel Aviv and Guangzhou still suspended. The airline still in talks about the arrival of Qatar Airways in its stake.

That Uganda Airlines, which has been announcing long-haul lines for months and months and which are not yet open, made headlines last week because of a fake CV from its CEO

Ethiopian Airlines which quietly posts profits

Ethiopian Airlines' revenue surges 79% as profit hits $937 million https://africa.businessinsider.com/loca ... on/fd0h4t5

Sign code share with FlyNas https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/220905-etxycodeshare


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There is a major organizational problem that is completely hampering the development of the company. She owes money to several creditors (Air France, Bpi France, etc.) and was not far to see its planes seized. The arrival of the A220s is delayed due to poor organization regarding crew training.

We recall the old team, former CEO of Airbus Africa and a Jerome Maillet. The Marketing Director is also back. They had been removed from the management of the company 2 years ago

Some routes will be closed and fleet reduced


Air Senegal: behind the scenes of the rescue operation managed by Macky Sall

Virtually bankrupt, the company must now fight for its survival. Its new managing director can count on the return of the team of Philippe Bohn, one of his predecessors, still a director. JA takes stock of the situation of the Senegalese flag.

In the short term, Air Senegal would have found itself in default if the Head of State had not intervened. The information was given to general amazement at the end of August to the airline's board of directors. Frenchman Jérôme Maillet, who has just rejoined the company as Chief Strategy Officer after leaving at the end of 2020, did the accounts. The deficit reached, according to the testimony of a participant, 60 million euros.

The company owes several million to Air France, but also to the rental company Carlyle Aviation, the Santander bank and the French public investment bank (Bpifrance). It would have risked, if the dialogue had not resumed recently with its creditors, to see its planes grounded. Alerted for months on the worrying situation of the company, Macky Sall has decided.

Poor organisation

In July, the Senegalese president fired the then chief executive, Ibrahima Kane, with immediate effect. Former director of Fonsis, the Senegalese sovereign fund, this polytechnician was held responsible for the deterioration of the health of the company. “Neither the Covid-19 nor the current economic crisis can justify its current state”, estimates a good connoisseur of the file. The former manager had continued to develop a number of lines, many of which did not meet with the expected success.

Dakar-Douala achieves 93% negative margin. The extension of the Dakar-New York line to Baltimore is also a failure, Air Senegal failing to fill this last section. A flight where passengers are forced to get off the plane upon arrival on American soil and collect their luggage so that their passports are checked – as required by local regulations – before boarding the same plane again. device.

At the same time, the company has fallen behind in obtaining IOSA certification (IATA Operational Safety Audit, an operational safety verification system), which is essential for entering into code-sharing agreements, as well as in training crews, which disrupts the operation of its Airbus A220. This poor organization was also fatal to Cheikh Seck, the former chief operating officer, also dismissed in recent weeks.

New team under pressure

In an attempt to restore the financial balance of the Senegalese flag, Macky Sall notably turned to Philippe Bohn who, after leaving the operational management of the company in 2018, became one of its administrators. According to our information, he should see his functions expanded so that he can intervene again in the management of Air Senegal.

The former director of Airbus Africa has already participated in redrawing the organization chart. In addition to Jérôme Maillet, whom he had poached to launch the company, he also campaigned for the return of Éric Iba Gueye, whom the former CEO had pushed to leave at the end of 2020. In charge of commercial and marketing, his mission is to assist the new boss, Alioune Badara Fall, pilot of the Senegalese flag until his appointment and former adviser to the Minister of Transport, chosen by the Head of State.

This new team will work under pressure. Its main mission will be to close the most loss-making lines - which should logically lead to a reduction in the Air Senegal fleet - and to open up the company's capital to a strategic partner. This last project is not new, but it now conditions the future of the company, whose bankruptcy would not be without consequences on the financial balance of Blaise-Diagne International Airport (AIBD). The Senegalese flag represented around a third of the flights there last year.

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Kuwait Airways lands in Ethiopia

3 airlines on a route from Addis Ababa it'is rare. Only Dubai is lucky to have this (EK, FlyDubai, Ethiopian) and Khartoum with Badr Airlines, Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines. About Europe, there is no longer competition and in Africa only Kenya Airways is resisting. Turkish Airlines (Europe) and Egyptair (Africa) being part of Star Alliance. They are friends with them, not in competition.

There is Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways and therefore Ethiopian on ADD-KWI. Jazeera Airways seems to be doing well.

Remember that in 10 years, Gulf Air, Etihad, KLM and obviously Lufthansa with covid19. We could add BMI and Yemenia. But BMI was was integrated into British Airways , while Yemenia had suspended its flights due to the civil war in Yemen. Ethiopian locks its market very well

https://www.zawya.com/en/world/middle-e ... s-tcmlm2q4

Maybe competition will come in Africa with Air Algérie, if they are more lucky than RAM on Casabkanca Nairobi, even if in the end, Kenya Airways and RAM were in code share.

Air Algérie: Strategic redeployment in Africa

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What is Algeria doing at the moment? What does Air Algerie do? The actions carried out almost simultaneously show the intentions of the country's leaders and the national airline. Algeria will make Algiers International Airport a hub for its airline at a time when Air Algerie is launching at least a dozen airlines to African capitals including Dakar, Nouakchott, Niamey, Abidjan, Bamako and Ouagadougou. At least three other destinations are planned, namely Addis Ababa, Brazzaville and Pretoria (Johannesburg), to weave a spider's web on the continent. And more generally, the national carrier intends to open around fifteen new lines in the coming month.

https://observalgerie.com/2022/08/15/vo ... e-afrique/
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Ethiopian Airlines is the preferred bidder for Nigeria Air, the Nigerian government said, as it prepares for the commencement of operations of Nigeria’s new national carrier. Ethiopian will own 49% equity, the federal government will control 5% equity, while a consortium of three Nigerian investors will have 46%. Nigeria Air would have an initial capital of US$300 million and plans to have 30 aircraft within four years.
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Stats from June - July 2022 but are probably currently almost the same, quite nice on Burundi and which shows that the traffic is coming back. Not only in relation to covid, but for those who follow the news about this country, in the mid 2010s the country experienced a political crisis. The late President Nkunrunziza wanted to change the constitution to stay in power.

Airlines had reduced the number of flights. SN from 3 to 1 flight per week. RwandAir had also reduced to a few weekly flights instead of 2 flights per day. Relations between Rwanda and Burundi have deteriorated. Rwanda accusing Burundi of hosting members of the RNC (former friends of President Kagame) and FDLR (former militiamen and soldiers who participated in the Genocide against the Tutsis) suspected of having committed attacks in Rwanda. Burundi accusing Rwanda of supporting the insurgency. The land border is still closed.

But relations have improved with the arrival of a new president in Burundi, knowing that Burundi and Rwanda are brotherly countries. It was a single country before independence. We find the same religions, ethnic groups and Kirundi and Kinyarwanda are sister languages.

Brussels Airlines operates 2 flights per week, RwandAir a daily flight, Ethiopian a daily flight. No stats for Kenya Airways, Uganda Airlines and Air Tanzania. No news from Burundi Airlines.

Brussels Airlines flights were sold out. So full that there were no passengers flying Brussels-Entebbe leg via Bujumbura on July 3, 2022. Indeed, there were 295 passengers. The plane therefore emptied at BJM before picking up passengers who were leaving from Bujumbura and therefore only the crew got off at Entebbe :shock: . The Brussels Airlines A330-300s are configured with 295 seats.

Good to see very good loads on Ethiopian Airlines. With almost 250 pax on July 1, 2022. It is not surprising that the aiirlines is currently sending its 787 almost 1 day out of 2 or 3 to BJM without the tag via Kigali 8-) .

On RwandAir we are at 80-90% of load factor on the Dash Q400. But the airline has operated 737-800s during busy periods. Air Tanzania has also partly tagged its flight between Dar Es Salaam and Bujumbura, finished the mandatory stop in Kigoma.

https://burundi--eco-com.translate.goog ... zVU4UzP2Ul

Burundi: $172 million to modernize Melchior Ndadaye International Airport

https://afrimag-net.translate.goog/buru ... r_pto=wapp

And another airport should be build of day: Kabamba International Airport

https://www-iwacu--burundi-org.translat ... r_pto=wapp
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