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Air France offers a daily flight between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Libreville
Air France in Gabon On 7 October 1933, Air France was born from the merger of five French airlines: Air Union, Air Orient, Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA), the CIDNA and Aéropostale. It is one of the few airlines to have been created before the Second World War. • March 1937: launch of the first services by Aéromaritime between Dakar and Cotonou. There were several stopovers to transport mail and cargo, including Port Gentil. In Dakar, the connection was operated by Air France to South America, Morocco and France. • After the war, Air France services resumed with a Dakar - Baloma - Conakry - Robertsfield - Abidjan - Accra - Lome - Cotonou - Lagos - Douala - Libreville - Port Gentil - Pointe Noire - Brazzaville route, operated by Lockheed Lodestar, Junkers JU 52 and DC-3. • 1952: an Air France ticket office was opened in Libreville. Air France started operating services to this city on the Paris-Algiers-Kano-Douala-Libreville-Brazzaville route, operated by Constellation. • 22 October 1958: Air France launched its first nonstop Paris – Port Gentil flight, which continued on to Libreville and Brazzaville. • 1977: Air France and Air Gabon launch a joint Paris- Libreville service with stopovers in Nice, Geneva and Rome, with four weekly flights by Air Gabon Boeing 747 «combi». • 1981: U.T.A. and the Angolan airline TAAG launched a weekly Paris-Libreville- Luanda service, operated by UTA’s DC.10-30 or by TAAG’s Boeing 707. • 1983: three U.T.A. flights served the capital of Gabon by DC-10 or 747: Paris-Marseille-Libreville, Paris-Lagos-Libreville and a nonstop flight from Paris to Libreville. • 1 January 1992: Air France took over the lease management of U.T.A. and started operating the Paris-Libreville-Johannesburg and Paris-Lagos-Libreville routes by Boeing 747. Port-Gentil was served from Libreville by Air Gabon, as a connection with Air France’s Paris-Libreville route. • 1995: Air France served Libreville with three weekly nonstop flights, by Boeing 747 and Airbus A310. • 1998: Air France operated three weekly Paris-Libreville flights by A310-300, the fourth being operated by A340-300. • 2005: Air France started operating the Boeing 777-200 on its Paris-Charles de Gaulle – Libreville route, with four weekly flights. • 2010: five weekly frequencies to Libreville. • 2013: Air France offers daily flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Libreville 27
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