Air Burkina
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| Founded | 1967 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Ouagadougou Airport | ||||||
| Alliance | Celestair | ||||||
| Fleet size | 2 + 2 aircraft stored | ||||||
| Destinations | 10 | ||||||
| Company slogan |
"Le sentiment d'une bonne compagnie" ("The feeling of a good company") | ||||||
| Headquarters | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | ||||||
| Website |
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Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Ghana. It is majority owned by an AKFED/IPS consortium, and operates from its main base at Ouagadougou Airport.[1]
History
The airline was established on 17 March 1967 under the name Air Volta. It was originally part owned by the Burkinabé government, part by Air France and part privately held. After the demise of Air Afrique, the state of Burkina Faso privatised Air Burkina on 21 February 2001, transferring 56% of the shares to the AKFED/IPS consortium (part of the Aga Khan Development Network).[1]
It purchased its first aircraft, an Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante, in 1978, and added a second, a Fokker F28, in 1983. The airline has had serious debt problems, reaching a deficit of one billion CFA francs in 1992 (approx. €1,500,000). However, by the time of privatization in 2001, the debt had largely been alleviated and the company was predicting an annual revenue of around 3.5 billion CFA francs (more than €5,000,000). The company saw a general strike in 2002, when workers demanded a 25% wage increase. In the resulting conflict, the director-general of Air Burkina was forced to resign.
The company is a member of the Celestair Group alliance of airlines.
Press reports in August 2013 said that the majority shareholder, AKFED & IPS, will be called in for talks by the Government after its most recent Council of Ministers meeting resolved to discuss the airline's current financial state. According to the Burkinabe Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport, a recent report presented to government outlining the current state of Air Burkina claims the Burkinabe national carrier "faces a difficult financial and economic situation." [2]
Corporate affairs
Shareholders
Current shareholdings (as at October 2013)[3] are:
| Shareholder | Interest |
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| Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED)/ Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) | 88% |
| Government of Burkina Faso | 5% |
| Other shareholders | 7% |
| Total | 100% |
Business trends
Financial and other business figures for Air Burkina are not fully available, as the company is privately owned. In the absence of these, some information has been made available, usually in the press, as shown below:
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
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| Turnover (CFA bn) | 25 | ||||
| Profits (CFA m) | |||||
| Number of employees | 262 | 254 | |||
| Number of passengers (000s) | 160 | 17 | 129 | ||
| Passenger load factor (%) | |||||
| Number of aircraft (at year end) | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Notes/sources | [4] | [5] | [3] | [6] |
Head office
Air Burkina is headquartered in the Air Burkina Building (French: Immeuble Air Burkina) in Avenue de la Nation, Ouagadougou.[7][8]
Destinations
Air Burkina serves the following destinations (as at July 2014):
| Hub | |
| Future | |
| Terminated route |
| City | Country | IATA | ICAO | Airport | Refs |
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| Abidjan |  Ivory Coast | ABJ | DIAP | Port Bouet Airport | |
| Accra |  Ghana | ACC | DGAA | Kotoka International Airport | |
| Bamako |  Mali | BKO | GABS | Senou International Airport | |
| Bobo-Dioulasso |  Burkina Faso | BOY | DFOO | Bobo Dioulasso Airport | |
| Cotonou |  Benin | COO | DBBB | Cadjehoun Airport | |
| Dakar |  Senegal | DKR | GOOY | Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport | |
| Lomé |  Togo | LFW | DXXX | Lomé-Tokoin Airport | |
| Niamey |  Niger | NIM | DRRN | Diori Hamani International Airport | |
| Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | OUA | DFFD | Ouagadougou Airport | |
Fleet
The Air Burkina fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 25 February 2014):[9]
| Aircraft | In Service | Passengers | Routes | Notes | ||
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| C | Y | Total | ||||
| Embraer E-170 | 2[10] | 12 | 56 | 68 | Domestic and African routes | |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-87 | 0 | 20 | 79 | 99 | Domestic and African routes (formerly) | two MD-87 stored at Olbia Airport |
| Total | 2 | |||||
References
- 1 2 Flight International 27 March 2007
- ↑ "Ouagadougou mulls Air Burkina's future with AKFED". ch aviation. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- 1 2 "Air Burkina profile at AFRAA". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Notre historique (Our History)" (in French). Air Burkina. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ↑ "Profile of Air Burkina". AirValid. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ↑ "Annual Report 2014". African Airlines Association. 2014.
- ↑ "Contact-us." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 19 October 2009.
- ↑ "Contactez-nous." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 8 December 2011. "Agence Centrale Ouagadougou 29, Av. de la Nation Immeuble Air Burkina 01 BP 1459 Ouagadougou 01"
- ↑ "Aircraft and Fleet Lists - ch-aviation.com". ch-aviation. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ↑ "Air Burkina on course to add first E170 shortly". ch-aviation. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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