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Feb 01, 2021(newstodate): According to Cabo Verdian media, the country's national carrier Cabo Verde Airlines is planning for resumption of services in February 2021.
   All flights in Cabo Verde have been suspended since April 19, 2020, and three of four Boeing 757-200 aircraft in the fleet of Cabo Verde Airlines have been moved to Miami, USA, for preservation.
   The Icelandic management of Cabo Verde Airlines has claimed  that the aircraft are better and more safely stored at an aircraft maintenance and storage facility in Opa Locka, Miami, than in the humid climate reigning in Cabo Verde at this time of the year.  
   Suspicions are, however, that they were moved away from Cabo Verde to secure the assets under Icelandic control.
   In the meantime, one of the three aircraft has been redelivered to Icelandair while the other two may reenter operations with Cabo Verde Airlines as traffic is resumed.
    Cabo Verde Airlines has certainly not developed into a profitable project for the Icelandair Group that in 2019 set up Loftleidir Cabo Verde to take 70 percent in the carrier.   
   Now, the state is keen to see traffic opening up again as soon as conditions permit, but Loftleidir Cabo Verde would reportedly like to see the state to inject more capital into the venture before taking the aircraft back to the islands.
   Plans for Loftleidir Cabo Verde to take over the next tranche of 39 of the 49 percent still held by the Cabo Verde state were aborted in April 2020 due to the uncertainties around the airline's future in the current coronavirus situation.