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Air Burkina
Founded	1967
Hubs	Ouagadougou Airport
Fleet size	5
Destinations	10
Company slogan	"Le sentiment d'une bonne compagnie"; ("The feeling of a good company")
Headquarters	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Key people
Website	http://www.air-burkina.com/

Air Burkina is the flag carier airline of Burkina Faso headquartered in the Air Burkina Storey Building (French: Immeuble Air Burkina) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.^[1]^[2] It is the national airline, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination (Bobo-Dioulasso), as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Its main base is Ouagadougou Airport.^[3]

[edit] 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 on 21 February 2001 privatised Air Burkina, transferring 56% of the shares to the AKFED / IPS consortium (part of the Aga Khan Development Network).^[3]

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.^{[citation needed]} The company works closely with Compagnie Aerienne du Mali of Bamako, and codeshares with that airline on many routes.

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Africa

Benin
- Cotonou (Cadjehoun Airport)
Burkina Faso
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Bobo Dioulasso Airport)
- Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou Airport) – Main Hub
Côte d'Ivoire
- Abidjan (Port Bouet Airport)
Gabon
- Libreville - Libreville International Airport
Ghana
- Accra (Kotoka International Airport)
Mali
- Bamako (Senou International Airport)
Niger
- Niamey (Diori Hamani International Airport)
Senegal
- Dakar (Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport)
Togo
- Lomé (Lomé-Tokoin Airport)

[edit] Europe

France
- Paris (Orly Airport)

[edit] Fleet

The Air Burkina fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 22 July 2009):^[4]

**Air Burkina Fleet**^[5]
Aircraft	Total	Passengers (Business/Economy)	Routes	Notes
Airbus A319-112	1	116 (8/108)	African and European Routes	operated by Air Ivoire
McDonnell Douglas MD-87	2			operated by Celestair
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	1			formerly operated by Avianca
Saab 340B	1	33	Domestic and African Routes	operated by Norse Air
	Total Number of Aircraft	5	Updated: July 2009

[edit] References

^ "Contact-us." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 19 October 2009.
^ "Contactez-nous." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 19 October 2009.
^ ^a ^b Flight International 27 March 2007
^ http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=2J&al_op=1
^ "Air Burkina – Notre FLOTTE" (in French). http://www.air-burkina.com/air-burkina/racine_site/air-burkina_flotte.asp. Retrieved 2007-04-20.

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[0] "Contact-us." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 19 October 2009.

[1] "Contactez-nous." Air Burkina. Retrieved on 19 October 2009.

[FI-2] Flight International 27 March 2007

[3] ttp://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=2J&al_op=1

[4] "Air Burkina – Notre FLOTTE" (in French). http://www.air-burkina.com/air-burkina/racine_site/air-burkina_flotte.asp. Retrieved 2007-04-20.

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