Cameroon Airlines

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Cameroon Airlines was the national airline of Cameroon and was based in Douala. It operated scheduled services within Africa and to Europe and the Middle East. Its main base was Douala Airport (DLA), with hubs at Port Bouet Airport, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: UY
ICAO Code: UYC
Callsign: CAM-AIR ^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established on 26 July 1971 and started operations on 1 November 1971 with two Boeing 737-200 aircraft between Douala and Yaoundé. A service was started to Rome and Paris using an ex-Air France Boeing 707, replaced by a Boeing 747-200 in 1982. It is owned by the Cameroon Government (96.43%) and Air France (3.57%). Prior to its formation Cameroon's air services were flown by Air Afrique.

On September 16, 2005, the company was put on France's blacklist, but this has now been lifted after a technical audit by the French authorities, however some people have said it was a plot by Air France to bankrupt Cameroon Airlines.

Despite reports that the company has gone bankrupt, it is still operating domestic and international services with a reduced fleet.

In 2006, the Cameroon government reached an agreement with SN Airholding, the mother company of SN Brussels Airlines, to revive the airline. Little is known yet about this new airline.

[edit] Services

Cameroon Airlines operated the following services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Douala, Garoua, Maroua, Ngaoundéré and Yaoundé.

International scheduled destinations: Abidjan, Bamako, Bangui, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Dubai, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Malabo, N'Djamena, Paris and Pointe-Noire.

[edit] Fleet

The Cameroon Airlines fleet is comprised of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) ^[2] :

Previously operated: All other aircraft had previously been disposed of, including 8 Boeing 737s, 1 Boeing 747, 2 Boeing 757s, 1 Boeing 767 and 2 Embraer ERJ 145s.