DIG/ At a time when the Transition is making great promises in the airline sector with Fly Gabon, what passenger would still agree to pay 250,000 FCFA for an 18-minute round trip between Libreville and Port-Gentil or 400,000 francs between Libreville and Franceville?
Can the new airline Fly Gabon win its bet to make airline tickets more attractive to its future customers? Nothing is less certain.
According to the head of the national airline, Nyl Moret-Mba, among the structural handicaps that make the balls so expensive today, There are navigation fees among the highest in the world, exaggerated airport fees, outdated infrastructure which increases the cost of aircraft maintenance, overtaxed aeronautical insurance, but also and above all a price of kerosene, among the most expensive in the region, twice as high as a European price.
« The public is right to complain about the high price of tickets. It is also the first intention of the Head of State through the Fly Gabon project to restore the right to mobility of Gabonese people on the national territory (…).
Gabonese oil is nevertheless refined here and should constitute a competitive advantage for air transport, similar to what has been done in the Gulf countries. The exact opposite has happened so far.
In all these areas, we will initiate discussions with government services in order to succeed in reducing prices.
We feel a new approach from the authorities, more open to these issues.
This will take some time because these are complex cross-cutting issues, which require government decrees.
However, we could not launch Fly Gabon based on this observation alone, which is why we decided to launch a new pricing policy, which will be valid from Monday. », indicated Nyl Moret-Mba.
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2024-08-05 08:08:41