Summary Air Sénégal's over-ambitious growth led to financial troubles, forcing cuts in its network, including flights to New York JFK. The carrier's heavy debts have resulted in its aircraft being repossessed, highlighting its financial instability. Despite challenges, efforts are being made to reevaluate the airline's operations and implement a rescue plan to revamp its strategy.
Heavily indebted, with poor loads and overly ambitious growth, Air Sénégal's problems have blown up in its face. It recently emerged that the carrier would be cutting its flights to New York JFK, meaning it is leaving the United States indefinitely. Once planning to become a shining example of West African airlines with connections to Europe and North America using modern aircraft, it has now announced a number of network cuts that set it back close to square one.
The overall downsizing of Air Sénégal is unfortunate, especially given its wonderful livery and modern aircraft. Among them are the Airbus A330neo and A320ceos. Together with Romuald Ngueyap, Editor-in-Chief at NewsAero , we take a look at the specific reasons for Air Sénégal’s New York suspension, as well as the carrier’s overall operation and reasons for failure.
Network trimming The carrier’s twice-weekly flight between Dakar (DSS) and New York JFK Airport (JFK) is being suspended as of September 15, 2024, according to Aeroroutes . The following day, the aircraft will operate Air Sénégal’s last flight from th.