Air Burkina

Air Burkina is an airline based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and based on the Ouagadougou airport.

History

Air Burkina adopted on March 17, 1967 under the name Air Volta as a joint venture of the Burkinabe government, the French airline Union des Transports Aériens between private investors and the flight operations. Shortly after the Revolution of 1983 sankaristischen Air Volta was largely nationalized and changed - as a result of the renaming of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso - its name to Air Burkina.

1978 bought Air Volta, which flew exclusively with rented equipment up to this point, their first aircraft, an Embraer EMB 110 1983 they built through the purchase of a Fokker F-28 its fleet. Despite the increasing demand did not make Air Burkina, to economically compete successfully. The debt burden was exacerbated by the devaluation of the CFA franc in 1994 and after the demise of Air Afrique, to which the Burkinabe government was also involved, Air Burkina was partially privatized in 2001; The share capital was increased to 3.5 billion CFA, 86 % of the shares are now owned by the AKFED / IPS consortium, which is part of the Aga Khan Development Network.

Objectives

Air Burkina is flying a total of 13 airports in eleven countries. Since the partial privatization of Air Burkina has expanded its route network massively and now offers regular flights between the West African cities Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Bobo-Dioulasso, Cotonou, Dakar, Lome, Niamey and Ouagadougou and between these cities and Paris.

Fleet

As of October 2013, the fleet of Air Burkina consists of four aircraft: