Cape Verdean TACV flights to Portugal for six frequencies increases per week – Observer
Cape Verdean TACV will only operate the single flights it operates to Portugal, currently the country of destination, from 4 July, increasing to six weekly frequencies connecting to the archipelago, the airline announced this Tuesday.
In a statement, Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) states that will increase from the data to three weeks (currently there are two) the connections between Praia and Lisbontaking place on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with return to the Cape Verdean capital on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
He adds that he starts flying from Sal to Lisbon on Wednesdays and Saturdays (currently there is one connection per week) and returns on Mondays and Fridays, and from São Vicente to the Portuguese capital on Mondays and Thursdays (currently one flight on the island per week) and return to the Cape Verdean island on Wednesdays and Sundays, using the Boeing 37-700 already included by the Angolan island TA already under a ‘leasing’ regime.
Cabo Verde Airlines is gradually at the base of the operation, adjusting the operation with the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and the recovery of the issuing markets”, reads the company’s statement, also referring that “already with the mixed crew , Angolan and Cape Verdean crew”.
According to TACV, the objective is to “operate with 100% Cape Verdean crew at the beginning of June”.
The president of TACV said this Monday, in parliament, that the company to hire a plane to operate as operations later this year to Boston, Brazil and Paris.
In response to a question from deputies during a national hearing at the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) of the National Assembly on the privatization of the flag company, Sara Pires recalled that the company began last year a “very timid” review, with only one flight weekly Praia — Lisbon, which later increased to two, going from three weeks to three months in each direction.
Furthermore, it advanced that The steps of the future were sent along the routes of São Vicente and Sal, “all in firm steps” to avoid errors. “And the targets are defined gradually, according to market conditions, namely the route from Boston, Paris and Brazil this year”, he added.
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“It could also be a possible company to rent equipment to TAAG”, predicted the leader indicating that all these devices will be added to a Boeing 737-700 is needed by the Angolan TAAG, under a ‘leasing’ regime.
Sara Pires said that she completed the registration process, the plane provided by TAAG has been operating since March 25, with flights to and from Lisbon, with Angolan crew, and for a week it has been in Cape Verde and under a regime of dry leasethat is, with Cape Verdean crew and all other costs paid by Cape Verde.
Several months into the negotiations of the operations, the five said that the president is proceeding at a good pace, with an “excellent occupancy rate” on the route to and from Praia, with an average of 80%.
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Regarding flights to and from São Vicente, advances that have had an average occupancy rate of around 75%, considered good, but the same cannot be said for Sal, between 45% and 50%.
Sara Pires justified this low rate with the fact that Sal, which started in February, to be a tourist market and not “saudade”but guaranteed that there is already a tour operator that bought the summer flights, as a way to monetize the air route.
“It is to continue to operate so that the market sees the company operating, so that there is a precise signal to the market so that it can arrive, and we are already reaping results, with the summer flights that already have a good occupancy rate. ”, he expressed.
At the moment, a TACV has a total of 204 workers, but that is still an excessive number, mainly in the operational area, waiting for 45 to be at a level of reduction, which should occur via reduction by mutual agreement, as well as pre-retirement, as well as Unilateral termination affects “last resort” termination areas.
In August 2017, Icelandair, from Iceland, took over the management of the international business of the Cape Verdean public airline and in March 2019 the State of Cape Verde sold 51% of TACV for 1.3 million euros to Lofleidir Cape Verde. .
The company is 70% owned by Loftleidir Icelandic EHF, which holds 6% of Cabo Verde Airlines’ commercial name and 30% by Icelandic representatives with experience in the booking sector (who assumed the remaining 15% of the 51% share privatized).
However, following the company’s stoppage during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cape Verdean State assumed on July 6, 2021 the 51% position in TACV, claiming several compliments in the management and immediate dissolution of the bodies.
On November 26, 2021, Loftleidir Cabo Verde announced that it had started a arbitration proceedings against the Cape Verdean State alleging “violation of the agreements concluded between the parties”, in view of the renationalization of the flag airline.
TACV suspended commercial flights in March 2020, due to measures just to contain the Covid19 pandemic, and I took back the hands of the Cape Verdean State, in December 2021, with only one plane and two weekly connections between Praia and Lisbon.
The CPI was requested by the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV, opposition since 2016), has deputies from the Movement for Democracy (MpD, in power) and one from the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID, opposition). ) and during the next few years you will hear from various personalities linked to the company and the process of dias-privatization.