Here's what I noticed about the African cities The flights from CDG are to former colonies of France. Rwanda was a colony of Belgium Birdy Airlines: http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/planitram/EN/misc/ENairport.html http://www.birdy-airlines.com/ David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross > 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