GABON: Gabon Launches Low Cost FlyAfrica.com

After Zimbabwe and Namibia, the South African group FlyAfrica.com launches new low-cost subsidiary in Gabon.

This is Gabon's President Ali Bongo who has himself announced the arrival of low cost Pan in Gabon following a partnership agreement between the Gabonese government and the South African group: "We must be connected between partner countries . Africa is our continent, it is up to us ", he said. It is true that Gabon no longer national airline since the collapse of Gabon Airlines in 2011. "The extension of FlyAfrica.com network of Southern Africa to Central Africa responds to the aspiration of the Heads of State of the continent ", welcomed in a statement FlyAfrica.com Group, owned by the South African company Paramount.

The headquarters will be based in FlyAfrica Gabon Libreville, the Gabonese capital. No decision has yet been taken regarding its fleet, offers and routes. But the goal is to provide low cost flights at very low prices, like the subsidiaries in Zimbabwe and Namibia.

If the group's subsidiaries FlyAfrica.com -Gabon FlyAfrica, Namibia and Zimbabwe FlyAfrica- FlyAfrica are legally separate, they use the same website, which now features eight destinations in Southern Africa (Windhoek, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Bulawayo, Harare and Lusaka) pending the opening of the destinations of the Gabonese subsidiary in Central Africa.