{"id":20288,"date":"2023-07-20T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/airfrance-suspend-flights-to-sierra-leone"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:01:51","slug":"airfrance-suspend-flights-to-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/airfrance-suspend-flights-to-sierra-leone","title":{"rendered":"AirFrance Suspend Flights to Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mohamed Foday Conteh<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The French national airline, AirFrance has suspended its operations to Sierra Leone. The reason for the suspension is said to be due to low traffic volume.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"aswift_1_host\"><\/a>The flight\u2019s customer base to Freetown International Airport has dwindled over the past months.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the issue, popular journalist, Umaru Fofana suggested Sierra Leone rethink their tax policy.Currently, passengers pay higher to travel to Sierra Leone than other destinations in the West African sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne saves several hundred dollars flying from Europe or the US \u2013 and a lot more to Australia and South America on ticket cost alone,\u201d Fofana said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was told the reason for the high cost is due to taxes. The airport has a number of extra charges that passengers complain to be exorbitant including a $50 security fee.<\/p>\n<p>The body responsible for the management of the airport and airlines in the country, the Civil Aviation Authority expected costs to be reduced by the end of the year. The airport, which now has a modern terminal, successfully passed the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) audit for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>There are expectations that the result would attract more flights to Sierra Leone by the end of the year thereby resulting to an increment in revenue and subsequently a reduction in the high cost of travelling to Freetown from other destinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s a no-brainer that many passengers would rather travel to Guinea by road or boat and fly from Conakry,\u201d Fofana said.<\/p>\n<p>AirFrance has a fleet size of over 245 and fly to 201 destinations in 78 countries. The flight was one of the few non-regional flights that fly to Freetown at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Foday Conteh Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. The French national airline, AirFrance has suspended its operations to Sierra Leone. The reason for the suspension is said to be due to low traffic volume. The flight\u2019s customer base to Freetown International Airport has dwindled over the past months. Commenting on the issue, popular journalist, Umaru Fofana suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AirFrance Suspend Flights to Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The French national airline, AirFrance has suspended its operations to Sierra Leone. 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