Senegal Airlines (Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International) has concluded its Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) operations with the recent return of its last remaining A320-200, 6V-AIH (cn 799), to lessor, CIT Aerospace. As it stands, the Senegalese national carrier continues to operate a B737-300 and CRJ100 wet-leased from Eastern SkyJets (Dubai International) and CemAir (5Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) respectively.

Despite government efforts to find new local investors, Senegal Airlines remains in critical condition given the poor state of its finances. In January, it was revealed that South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) and Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) were among a list of carriers that Dakar had courted with a view to their taking over the crippled airline.

However, SAA has since discounted itself from the talks when South African media reports claimed airline chairwoman Dudu Myeni and another board member, Lindi Nkosi-Thomas, had accused CEO Monwabisi Kalawe of "serious" breaches of governance claiming he had negotiated the purchase of Senegal Airlines shares without board consent.

According to the Beeld Afrikaans newspaper, an auditor general's investigation into Kalawe's dealings reveal he had allegedly been trying to acquire a private investor's shares in Senegal Airlines with SAA's board only discovering the move when the Senegalese government approached them about the proposed sale.