8Z CGA Parent company State of DRC | Commenced operations October 2015 (2015-10) Destinations 9 Founded 2015 Fleet size 4 | |
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Key people Désiré Balaziré, CEOJerome Maillet, Accountable Manager & Deputy CEOXavier Bruyndonckx, COO CEO Désiré Balazire Bantu (2 May 2016–) | ||
Congo Airways is the flag carrier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a paid-up capital of US$90 million, it started operations on 20 October 2015, using two Airbus A320 aircraft acquired from Alitalia. The company serves nine Congolese destinations from its base at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa.
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Destinations
As of June 2016, the company operates domestic routes from its hub at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa to Goma, Kindu, Kananga, Kisangani, Lubumbashi, Mbandaka and Mbuji-Mayi. In January 2016, the company announced that it wants to expand service to smaller airports such as Beni and Buta Zega and internationally to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo, Luanda, Pointe Noire, Addis Ababa, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta, Lagos, and Abidjan. Long-term plans included flights to Dubai Int'l and Guangzhou.
Fleet
The Congo Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):
One of the aircraft was being impounded in Dublin for a few weeks in September 2015 where it was to be painted.