Air Afrique information

Air Afrique
Founded	28 March 1961
Commenced operations	1 August 1961
Ceased operations	January 2002
Hubs	Port Bouet Airport;
Secondary hubs	Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport;
Subsidiaries	Air Burkina; Air Mali; Air Mauritanie;
Destinations	22 (at the time of closure)
Headquarters	Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Key people	Saleh Ahmet Mahamet (Chairman of the Board) (at the time of closure);
Website	airafrique.com (currently unavailable)

Air Afrique was a Pan-African airline,^[3] that was mainly owned by many West African countries for most of its history. It was established as the official transnational carrier for francophone West and Central Africa, because many of these countries did not have the capability to create and maintain a national airline,^[4] and had its headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.^[5] The carrier was a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as well as the French Union's smaller IATA-like ATAF.^[6]

Air Afrique began a steady decline in the early 1980s, yet many years later the company was still considered the most reputable carrier in West Africa,^[7] and even one of the top five airlines of Africa. Mismanagement, corruption, and the downturn in the aviation industry after the 11 September 2001 attacks led the airline to a crisis that ended with its liquidation in early 2002.^{[citation needed]} Even though there were plans to revive the airline with the creation of a new company,^[8]^[9]^[10] they never materialised, as it was succeeded by short-lived Afrinat International Airlines.

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