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Routes profiles Air Senegal, the World Routes 2021 attendee that has just revised the launch plans for its inaugural route to the US.

Air Senegal hopes the new Sierra Leone service will provide feed for its medium and long-haul flights.

Service from Atlanta to Johannesburg will resume in August but plans to tag Cape Town on to the route have been dropped.

The airline will become the only African carrier to offer a nonstop link between Senegal and the US.

The Canary Islands-based airline will deploy its five new Embraer E195-E2s on the routes.

The Italian carrier hopes to grow its transatlantic network to fly to destinations in the US.

The carrier also plans to start a new Brussels-Frankfurt connection this summer.

The carrier has revived plans to add flights between West Africa and the US.

Air Senegal’s route to the Catalan city is set to include a stop in Casablanca.

The French city is being tagged on to the airline’s existing route to Marseille.

The Belgian flag-carrier will increase its flying to the continent by 40% compared to now from the beginning of December to early January.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Air Senegal’s European expansion; British Airways starting Cornwall Airport Newquay flights; and Jazeera Airways adding a fourth destination in Turkey.

Air Senegal has chosen London Stansted for its first ever UK service.

The West African market will be served alongside the airline’s existing route between Dubai and Dakar, in Senegal, which is operated using an Airbus A340-300 configured with offers 12 First Class, 42 Business Class and 213 Economy Class seats. Bamako will be linked directly from Dubai, but return flights will operate via Dakar.

ECAir, Equatorial Congo Airlines, the national airline of the Republic of the Congo has announced its plans to launch a route to Dakar in Senegal via Bamako in Mali.

UK charter provider and airline sub-charter specialist, Titan Airways , has secured a contract to support the flying activities of Gambia Bird after

United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier Emirates Airline is to introduce flights to Conakry, the capital city of Guinea from the start of the Northern

Air Côte d’Ivoire is starting operation in November 2012, with planned launch date set on 12NOV12. Initially the airline will operate service from

New African start-up Air Cote d’Ivoire has announced its initial network plans after the Abidjan-based carrier took delivery of its first aircraft