Gabon Airlines is the name of two incarnations of airline, headquartered in Libreville.[" Mentions légales." Gabon Airlines. Retrieved on 8 October 2009.]
History
After having been granted official permission by the Gabonese transport minister on 8 November 2006, the airline was founded in 2007 by private investors, banks and insurers,
[ Panapress 28 March 2007] the CEO being Christian Bongo Ondimba, a son of former Gabonese president
Omar Bongo. The first revenue flight of Gabon Airlines took place on 11 April 2007 and went from
Libreville to
Paris. Flights to
South Africa and other Central African countries followed suit.
[ Africa News 18 December 2006]
Relaunch
In April 2015, the Gabonese government and
Air France signed an agreement to manage the redeveloped national flag carrier, planned to be launched as early as June 2015. The new carrier would operate initially domestic and international flights with a then-unspecified fleet.
Destinations
, Gabon Airlines operates scheduled flights to the following destinations:
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Douala – Douala International Airport
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Accra – Kotoka International Airport
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Nairobi – Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
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Abuja – Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
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Lagos – Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Fleet
Former fleet
, the Gabon Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 22.8 years:
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ATR 72-500 (1)
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Boeing 737-300 (1)
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Total: 2
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