While Air Senegal isn't exactly a major airline, they run a fascinating little operation, as far as I'm concerned. The airline operates a fleet of five planes, including an A330-900neo, two A319s, and two ATR72s. The airline has a second A330-900neo on order that should be delivered shortly, and it has been interesting to see…
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Flying "from Dakar to Senegal" makes no sense as Dakar is Senegals capitol. Guess you mean Paris considering the link.
A lot of typos in this post and the GCMapper image of Dakar - Marseille - Barcelona - Dakar is missing the last line segment. Lucky you must be too sleepy when writing this lol
@Lucky -- Interesting route. In today's newsletter from the Culinary Backstreets food-tour company, they announced a new Marseille tour: https://culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/marseille/2019/marseille/.
It kind of surprises me neither you nor Tiffany have taken a CB tour (they're considered among the best in the world). I've done one and hope to take another soon. I hope you get to try one, one day.
Interesting that in Sabre, a quick check shows that Dec 9, MRS-DKR has already been cancelled
19DECMRSDKR«
09DEC MON MRS/Z‡1 DKR/-1
X HC 405 J C MRSDSS 755A 205P 330 M 1 XTWF DC /E
D Z W A Y B M K H Q T L V R N E X
as well as Dec 12 DKR-MRS
X HC 405 J C D DSSMRS 1220A 630A 330 M 0 XTWF DC /E
Z W A Y B M K H Q T L V R N E X G
No way this route will support a 339. If it sticks around it will be an A319 within six months.
I won't be surprised if they get traffic rights between BCN and MRS. Ethiopian also has traffic rights between OSL and ARN, after all. 😀
But this route on a 339? It might be a bit optimistic, even given the population with Senegalese heritage at the Cote d'Azure and around Barcelona. They're not exactly known for their deep pockets, so they won't be commuting weekly. I guess tourists must fill the rest of the seats, and in that case BCN makes sense, as it's a large airport. So then they better start looking for some partner airlines for codeshare for feeders to BCN. In that respect MRS doesn't make sense, as it's more or less a low cost carrier hub. FR won't codeshare with anyone, nor offer connecting flights. NCE would be more logical in a way, but I don't know if their runway and airport can support such large aircraft.
So I guess what Sal says... better polish that A319 a bit again. 🙂
As others have mentioned, I am also surprised to see the route be operated by their flagship aircraft, especially given that the a319 should be well within range (IB operates a mix of a319s, a320s and a321s to DSS and they have a very dense configuration). Add in the IAD rumors and it makes it seem even more unlikely.
@import the vikings Air Senegal isnt going to get any significant connectivity in BCN either... only hosts hubs for LEVEL and Vueling (both partnered with IB who operates on MAD-DSS)