CVA says that two aircraft are enough for the routes it intends to operate until next year

The chairman of the board of directors of Cabo Verde Airlines (CVA), Sara Pires, said today, in the city of Praia, that two aircraft are enough to ensure the routes that the air carrier wants to operate until next year.

Sara Pires gave this guarantee in statements to the press, on the sidelines of a meeting held with travel agencies in the city of Praia to talk about the company's commercial strategy and also appeal to travel agencies to sell the CVA product.

“This meeting foresees that we will present the products that Cabo Verde Airlines has available at the moment, but also products that we intend to introduce in the future”, he explained.

Sara Pires also recalled that at the moment Cabo Verde Airlines has flights to and from Lisbon, adding that from the month of July it will be introducing flights to Paris and, from the Iata Winter, to introduce flights to Boston and Brazil .

“Prices are competitive. We have several tariffs available, from a simple business traveler, who can travel with a simple hand luggage, as passengers on tourist flights or visiting family members who can add more luggage”, he presented.

Asked whether CVA intends to acquire more aircraft, Sara Pires replied that it currently has a plane, the Boeing 737-700 from Angolan TAAG, and that it expects the arrival of another aircraft at the beginning of the second half of the year, a Boeing 737-8 MAX, believing that these two aircraft are sufficient for the routes it intends to operate until next year.

TACV, which has CVA as its trade name, was sold (51%) to Icelandic investors and renationalized in July 2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic, having only resumed flights in December 2021.

In March 2019, the State of Cape Verde sold 51% of TACV for 1.3 million euros to Lofleidir Cabo Verde, a company 70% owned by Loftleidir Icelandic EHF (Icelandair group, which took 36% of Cabo Verde Airlines) and 30% by Icelandic entrepreneurs with experience in the aviation sector (who took over the remaining 15% of the privatized 51% share).

The company was later renationalized in July 2021 and resumed flights to Portugal in December of the same year, initially between Praia and Lisbon. Later, it extended flights to the Portuguese capital also from the islands of Sal and São Vicente, a program that is still in place.