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Air Senegal in recent schedule update filed changes to Dakar – Barcelona – Marseille – Dakar route. The airline will continue to operate this route with A330-900neo aircraft 3 times weekly, upon service resumption from 01JUL20. Previously planned 4th weekly flight from 28JUN20 to 06SEP20 is no longer in effect.
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Air Senegal in the last few days further adjusted its inventory for planned service to Geneva and London. Reported on Airlineroute on 06MAY20, the airline closed reservation for travel between June and October 2020.
As of 13MAY20, the airline has closed reservation for travel until late-January 2021. Latest adj… read more
Reconstruction of the metre-gauge freight railway through the suburbs of Dakar has been successfully completed, despite the constraints imposed by new working arrangements to protect against coronavirus.
The electrified 1 435 mm gauge TER express rail link to the capital’s Blaise Diagne International Airport is being built alongs… read more
As of winter 2020, Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar and London will be connected with a nonstop flight. Air Senegal will operate three times per week flights between the both airports and the initial flight will take of on the 26th of June, 2020.
The flights will head London's Stansted airport.
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Geneva is the latest new destination of Air Senegal.
Beginning as of 18th of June 2020, Air Senegal will combind Dakar with Geneva in Switzerland. This new service will be operated 3-times per week (Monday, Thursday and Saturday) on an Airbus A320 with a total of 165 seats, with 16 in Business- and 149 in Economy class.
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ASKY Airlines will operate flights into Cape Verde Islands with effect from 2 March, 2020.
The new three-weekly service to the island of Cape Verde will operate between Lome in Togo and Praia in Cape Verde via Dakar in Senegal. The service will be operated using a Boeing 737-800NG offering 154 seats including 16 in Busine… read more
Air Senegal's second Airbus A330-900neo has arrived. The brand new aircraft was received Tuesday, December 3, 2019 by Alioune Sarr, the Senegalese Minister of Civil Aviation in Airbus workshops in Toulouse. The aircraft landed at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar yesterday.
Equipped with RollsRoyce's Trent 7000 engines, the airc… read more
Air Senegal introduces from mid-November 2019 a new domestic route, as the Airlines is going to operate the sector Dakar – Cap Skirring. As of 15th of November, Air Senegal will operate with an ATR72 aircraft this route twice weekly on Fridays and Sundays.
Cap Skirring is located … read more
As of December 12th, 2019, Air Senegal will operate three weekly flights into its new destinations, Marseilles and Barcelona. The flights will be operated on brand new Airbus A330 neo.
New destinations have been also started within Africa (Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria and Accra in Ghana) and in the United States (New York plus Washington) in… read more
Effective already on the 3rd of December 2019, Air Senegal introduces a new route between Dakar and Casablanca.
This daily service will be operated by Airbus A319 and allows to connect via Dakar to Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Conakry and Ouagadougou.