DR Congo’s flyCAA set to resume A320 operations

Five years after it retired all of its A320-200s, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s flyCAA (BU, Kinshasa N’Djili) took delivery of a new unit of the type on July 2, 2021. 9S-ABM (msn 3900), a 12.2-year-old aircraft that was previously operated by GoAir. It was ferried to Kinshasa N’Djili directly from Toulouse Francazal but has yet to be deployed into revenue service. The airline did not respond to ch-aviation’s query about its plans for the A320 going forward.

According to the ch-aviation fleets history module, flyCAA used to operate a total of five A320-200s between 2010 and 2016. The last of the five, 9Q-CPB (msn 279), was retired on April 30, 2016. The carrier’s current fleet does not include any narrowbody aircraft – it operates two ATR72-500s, one ATR72-500(F), and one A330-200. Both the A330 and the ATR freighter variant were added to the carrier’s fleet earlier this year.

State-owned Congo Airways (8Z, Kinshasa N’Djili) operates two A320-200s (besides two DHC-8-Q400s), the ch-aviation fleets advanced module indicates.