The government of the D R Congo in Kinshasa on Friday signed a partnership agreement with Air France-KLM to create this year a new Congolese national airline called Congo Airways.
"We will ask our partners Air France-KLM to work under pressure in order that the Congolese national carrier is already launched before the end of 2014," said Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo during Friday's signing ceremony of the partnership agreement between Air France-KLM and the Congolese government.
The Ambassador of France in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luc Hallade, said the signing of the partnership agreement between the DRC and Air France is the result of exchanges between President Joseph Kabila and his French counterpart François Hollande in Paris in December 2013.
Future airline, which would have a fleet of ten aircraft will replace the Congolese airline "LAC", which went bankrupt ten years ago.
The Congolese government had consulted several global carriers about the creation of a new national airline, at a time when the country seeks to emerge from the blacklist drawn up by the European Union.
"The Congolese government experts met with representatives of Brussels Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, South Africa Airways," revealed an advisor to the Prime Minister.
The aviation sector in the DRC is characterized by a high frequency of plane crashes, the most dramatic are the Tupolev plane crash on a market on 6 January 1996, with more than 2,000 dead, the crash of a Hewa Bora Boeing at the airport of Kisangani on 8 July 2011 (more than 90 dead), the crash of a Hewa Bora DC-8 on the Birere market in Goma (over 120 dead), the Air Kasai plane crash at Goma airport (10 dead), the crash of an Filair airliner in Bandundu following the release on a crocodile carried by a passenger, not to mention other incidents recorded in the Congolese airspace.
At the national conference on air transport organized in Kinshasa on 10 April 2013, the participants recognized the broader failure trends in the airline industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
These include failures, outdated equipment, lack of maintenance of aircraft, most of which date from the 50s, 60s and 70s, the lack of training of young pilots and co-pilots and cabin personnel, lack of airport equipment such as anti-fire vehicles at several airports, deteriorating runways, the overload.
Fonti: french.china.org.cn e Tijd.be
"We will ask our partners Air France-KLM to work under pressure in order that the Congolese national carrier is already launched before the end of 2014," said Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo during Friday's signing ceremony of the partnership agreement between Air France-KLM and the Congolese government.
The Ambassador of France in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luc Hallade, said the signing of the partnership agreement between the DRC and Air France is the result of exchanges between President Joseph Kabila and his French counterpart François Hollande in Paris in December 2013.
Future airline, which would have a fleet of ten aircraft will replace the Congolese airline "LAC", which went bankrupt ten years ago.
The Congolese government had consulted several global carriers about the creation of a new national airline, at a time when the country seeks to emerge from the blacklist drawn up by the European Union.
"The Congolese government experts met with representatives of Brussels Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, South Africa Airways," revealed an advisor to the Prime Minister.
The aviation sector in the DRC is characterized by a high frequency of plane crashes, the most dramatic are the Tupolev plane crash on a market on 6 January 1996, with more than 2,000 dead, the crash of a Hewa Bora Boeing at the airport of Kisangani on 8 July 2011 (more than 90 dead), the crash of a Hewa Bora DC-8 on the Birere market in Goma (over 120 dead), the Air Kasai plane crash at Goma airport (10 dead), the crash of an Filair airliner in Bandundu following the release on a crocodile carried by a passenger, not to mention other incidents recorded in the Congolese airspace.
At the national conference on air transport organized in Kinshasa on 10 April 2013, the participants recognized the broader failure trends in the airline industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
These include failures, outdated equipment, lack of maintenance of aircraft, most of which date from the 50s, 60s and 70s, the lack of training of young pilots and co-pilots and cabin personnel, lack of airport equipment such as anti-fire vehicles at several airports, deteriorating runways, the overload.
Fonti: french.china.org.cn e Tijd.be
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