Cameroon’s flagship airline CamairCo, which re-launched this week after a three-year hiatus, plans to launch flights to Dubai by the end of the year, its director said Tuesday.
"The first international destination from Douala will be Paris, but the company is seriously considering flights to China and Dubai later in the year," director Alex van Elk, who left Nigeria's Arik Air to take the helm of the airline last year, told journalists after the airline’s inaugural flight to Paris.
CamairCo as is due to restart scheduled flights from June.
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The former flag carrier of the central African nation collapsed and ceased flight operations under the weight of maladministration, corruption and debt in 2008.
The carrier was banned from European skies in 2005 following maintenance and technical problems, but Van Elk said all procedures have been cleared for it to fly and the new company is benefiting from Lufthansa's technical support.
The rebranded company has two Boeing aircrafts in its fleet, a 767-300ER for international routes and a 737-000 for domestic and regional destinations.
Van Elk said CamairCo wants to increase the aircraft to four by the end of the year.
Major international carriers, including Air France-KLM, Brussels Airlines and Swiss Air have several flights a week to the oil-producing country in the gulf of Guinea.
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