Domestic flights to Cape Verde, operated by a single company, handled more than 21,000 passengers in May, up 22.8% from last year, according to data from the Civil Aviation Agency (AAC) compiled this Friday by Lusa.
There were 42,106 global movements of passengers on domestic flights, departures and arrivals, at the country’s four international airports and three airfields in May, according to the agency that regulates the sector in Cape Verde. Since each passenger is counted when embarking and disembarking (at different airports), this movement is equivalent to 21,053 passengers on domestic flights per month.
This global movement is comparable to 17,142 passengers in May 2022 and a record high since the start of the pandemic of almost 30,000 in August 2022. flights in the archipelago.
In May 2023, 718 domestic flights were booked in Cape Verde, compared to 662 in the same month of 2022.
Domestic flights to Cape Verde handled nearly 250,000 passengers during 2022, up 70% from last year, according to previous AAC data.
Domestic flights were operated from May 17, 2021 only by the Angolan company BestFly, under a six-month emergency concession granted by the Government of Cape Verde. From October 24 of the same year, BestFly began to work only with Transportes Interilhas de Cabo Verde (TICV, a company it acquired in July 2021), canceling the emergency concession regime.
The Angolan group BestFly bought out 70% of TICV’s share capital from the Spaniards of Binter two years ago, leaving the remaining 30% to the state of Cape Verde, and concentrated domestic flights only on TICV, which has not operated commercial flights since 16 years. May 2021.
In 2020, domestic flights to Cape Verde, then operated only by TICV, handled about 125 thousand passengers, a decrease of 286 thousand (-230%) compared to the previous year, taking into account the restrictions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, and in 2021 increased to 143,876 passengers.
In 2017, the number of passengers on domestic flights in Cape Verde reached a record level of almost 465,000 people (total 929,595 departures and arrivals), while more than 10,200 flights were made.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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