The management of the company specifies that initially, the service will be primarily domestic. Interrupted for seven months, CAMAIR-CO’s activities will resume on October 12, 2020, announces the Cameroonian national air transport company through a message posted on social networks.
The management of the carrier specifies that for a start, it will be mainly to provide domestic flights.
In the grip of financial difficulties and faced with the occurrence of COVID-19, the Cameroon Airlines Corporation had, last March, to suspend the operating component of its activities.
Since June 22, 2020, 371 public company employees, or around 65% of the workforce, have been on technical leave for a renewable period of three months. A decision taken by the director general, Louis Georges Njipendi Kuotu, due to the health crisis, which came as staff were accumulating several months of salary arrears.
But, on July 14, 2020, in a correspondence addressed to the Prime Minister, the Secretary General of the Presidency echoed the instructions of the Head of State relating to the privatization of the national airline of Cameroon.
President Paul Biya has in fact ordered the opening of the share capital of CAMAIR-CO up to 51% to a private partner. Privatization accompanied by a demanding stimulus plan that includes downsizing.
In recent months, meetings have multiplied between the Secretary General of the Prime Minister’s Services, the various supervisory bodies of CAMAIR-CO and the public bodies responsible for the restructuring and privatization of public and parastatal enterprises. At the center of the discussions, the restructuring and privatization plan of ‘Etoile du Cameroun’ ’.
To this day, it is difficult to say for sure whether this restructuring is already in effect when the company is about to return to service.
