-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Likely to be legacy routes from the old colonial days with the exception of the Swiss route I would think. Can't really comment on the facilities at the end of the line, but I would be suprised if they used exclusively 'local' crews. As an interesting aside VS use / used an Air Atlanta aircraft and crew? on their Lagos route. Anyone know why? David On Monday 24 Mar 2003 9:02 pm, Brian Rynott wrote: > Here?s a question for some of our list experts. I was doing a search in > Sabre and found some interesting city pairs between Europe and western > Africa, principally on Air France but also on SN Brussels and Swiss. Some > of these include: > > CDGNIM Niamey, Niger > CDGNKC Nouakchott, Mauritania > CDGOUA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso > CDGCKY Conakry, Guinea > SSGZRH Malabo, Equatorial Guinea > BGFCDG Bangui, Central Africa > BRUKGL Kigali, Rwanda > BRUROB Monrovia, Liberia > CDGCOO Cotonou, Benin > > My area of expertise is in Latin America, so I apologize in advance of any > ignorance. Any idea what these markets principally serve, ie, oil, VFR, > former colonial alliance, etc.? It would appear based on frequencies, > published fares, and aircraft type that they would net good yield ? but I > don?t know anything about most of these smaller cities. > > Also, is there adequate security and international hotel facilities for the > crew or, like in the case of AA in Colombia, do they use locally-based > cabin crew or dead-head a second crew to operate the turn and don?t layover > at all? > > In the case of SN Brussels, it says that flights are operated by Birdy > Airlines. Anyone know anything about them? > > Thanks, > Brian > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+f3lSKsvwCXwmAPgRAmV4AJiljSWrrU37CP4Y1lBbbmEmAL7bAJwMVTGZ S4bIUnkrXw0NMhYqit3RFQ== =b+QR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----