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Apr 05, 2019 (newstodate): Cabo Verde is keen to develop its airline and airports infrastructure to attain the status as a hub for traffic between North America, Africa and Europe.
The country's airline TACV Cabo Verde Airlines, now majority-owned by Iceland's Loftleidir Cabo Verde, has announced the opening of a spree of new routes to Lagos, Luanda, Milan, Rome, and Washington in 2019, but would need to build up its aircraft fleet to sustain this growth in the network.
In the fleet is now one Boeing 757-200 aircraft leased from Icelandair, and one more Icelandair aircraft is planned to join, after which a third Boeing 757 will be sourced from a yet-unnamed operator.
The ambitions may, however, be bogged down by the fact that Icelandair does not have any aircraft redundancy after the grounding of its five Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, but has to lease extra capacity itself to cover up for the shortage.
In August 2017, Loftleidir Icelandic, TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and the Government of Cabo Verde signed a management agreement on the restructuring of the loss-making TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and position it as a key strategic asset to contribute to Cabo Verde's potential as a year-round tourist destination, and to develop Cabo Verde's position as a connecting hub with a CAT 1 airport linking four continents.
Since then, the Icelandic experts allocated to the project have worked out a new five-year plan for TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and have been engaged in the task of implementing the new strategies.
The country's airline TACV Cabo Verde Airlines, now majority-owned by Iceland's Loftleidir Cabo Verde, has announced the opening of a spree of new routes to Lagos, Luanda, Milan, Rome, and Washington in 2019, but would need to build up its aircraft fleet to sustain this growth in the network.
In the fleet is now one Boeing 757-200 aircraft leased from Icelandair, and one more Icelandair aircraft is planned to join, after which a third Boeing 757 will be sourced from a yet-unnamed operator.
The ambitions may, however, be bogged down by the fact that Icelandair does not have any aircraft redundancy after the grounding of its five Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, but has to lease extra capacity itself to cover up for the shortage.
In August 2017, Loftleidir Icelandic, TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and the Government of Cabo Verde signed a management agreement on the restructuring of the loss-making TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and position it as a key strategic asset to contribute to Cabo Verde's potential as a year-round tourist destination, and to develop Cabo Verde's position as a connecting hub with a CAT 1 airport linking four continents.
Since then, the Icelandic experts allocated to the project have worked out a new five-year plan for TACV Cabo Verde Airlines and have been engaged in the task of implementing the new strategies.