travel news review


8 July '98
Air Afrique, the West African multinational airline, has been forced to sell four of its fleet of 15 planes to pay off the airline's debts which are currently around US$3 million. The airline is jointly owned by Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Niger, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Congo, Mali and the Central African Republic. As most of these countries cannot afford a national airline, Air Afrique was established to provide them with a regular air service. Air Afrique will cease all flights to the US, France and South Africa but flights between West African countries will not be suspended.