Air Sénégal (HC, Dakar Blaise Diagne International) has announced it has redeployed a 312-seater B777-200ER between Dakar Blaise Diagne International and Paris CDG, restoring full widebody capacity on the route after weeks of operational disruption.
ADS-B data shows that 23-year-old 4L-MWB (msn 32891), wet-leased from MyWay Airlines (MJ, Tbilisi), resumed flights on the route on January 25 after being repositioned from Tbilisi the day before.
The aircraft’s introduction also allows for the resumption of cold cargo activity on the Dakar-Paris sector, the airline announced on social media. Air Sénégal apologised to passengers for disruptions in recent weeks and promised to improve the quality of service on the route.
It is not the first time Air Sénégal has deployed 4L-MWB to Paris. The same aircraft was wet-leased from MyWay Airlines between August and the end of November last year to boost capacity while the Senegalese carrier's pair of in-house A330-900Ns remained grounded.
Over December and early January, the airline relied on several short-term ACMIs to service the Dakar-Paris route, including:
- Corsair, which operated A330-900N F-HHUG (msn 1993) on December 6-7;
- USC (Germany), which provided A340-300 D-AUSC (msn 646) on December 11-13;
- Fly2Sky, which flew the route with A321-200 LZ-FSH (msn 1932) between December 22 and January 9.
For its narrowbody requirements, Air Sénégal also still relies on Lithuanian ACMI/charter specialist GetJet Airlines, from whom it wet-leases three A320-200s and one B737-800.
Air Sénégal's entire in-house fleet of two ATR72-600s and two A330-900N widebodies are currently grounded. The A330s are the subject of a legal dispute with France's public investment bank Bpifrance over unpaid fees.
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