Africa-Press – Cape verde. Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) told the Lusa agency today that it will not return to domestic flights, clarifying that it has only made a few seats available on the Praia-Sal flight, which leaves Lisbon, to make the operation profitable.
“TACV has not returned to domestic flights”, replied the company, after being questioned by Lusa about this possibility reported by several media outlets in the country and after announcing a route between Praia and Sal on its official pages.
In its responses, TACV, commercially known as Cabo Verde Airlines (CVA), stated that it had made some seats available on the Praia-Sal route to optimize operations on Friday’s flight, which leaves Lisbon, bound for the island of Sal.
“The same happens on Sunday when we have Lisbon/Praia flights, via Sal”, continued the company, emphasizing that domestic operations are in charge of Transportes Interilhas de Cabo Verde (TICV).
The company also guaranteed that its business plan has not defined a return to domestic operations in Cape Verde, and that the company’s devices are intended for international flights.
At the moment, the company only makes international connections with Lisbon and announced that from November 4th it will start flying to Bergamo (Italy).
The company also plans to resume flights to Bissau, as well as opening connections to Paris, the USA (Boston) and Brazil.
In March 2019, the State of Cape Verde sold 51% of TACV, for 1.3 million euros, to the Icelandic company Lofleidir Cabo Verde, together with businesspeople from that country.
Following the company’s shutdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cape Verdean State resumed that position in TACV in July 2021, alleging several breaches in management, immediately dissolving the corporate bodies.
Domestic air links between seven of the islands in the archipelago have been operated for several years by a single company, currently the Angolan company BestFly, which bought the majority of the capital of TICV, previously owned by the Spanish company Binter.
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