Air Senegal's Passengers Stranded: Disputing With Royal
Air Maroc
Al-Maghreb News Updates
23 April 2009
Some 500 passengers were stranded
on Friday after Air Senegal stopped operating and
cancelled all of its flights in an ongoing dispute
between Dakar and Air Senegal majority stakeholder
Royal Air Maroc.
In the Senegalese capital of Dakar, 274 people due to
fly out to Paris and several west African locations
were stranded at the airport.
In Paris and the other locations some 224 people due
to fly to Dakar were also stranded. In total 498
people are stuck due to the problems with Air Senegal,
according to figures given by an Air
Senegal official, who did not want to be named.
"All these passengers are stranded at the airports
where they were. We don't have the means to transport
them. Our accounts have been frozen and other carriers
are demanding to be paid in cash to fly them," the
source in the Air Senegal commercial branch told AFP.
Royal Air Maroc announced Friday that Air Senegal had
stopped operating and cancelled all of its flights.
"For several weeks Royal Air Maroc has warned its
Senegalese co-shareholders that there was a risk Air
Senegal would stop its activities. Today Air Senegal
has stopped operating and cancelled all its flights,"
the RAM said in a statement.
Air Senegal International (ASI), was created in 2000
with RAM holding a 51 percent stake in the company and
the Senegalese state 49 percent. For almost two years,
RAM and Dakar have been at odds with each other.
Late in 2007, the Senegalese state announced it was
taking control of ASI, accusing RAM of bad management.
The Moroccans have been pressing Dakar to take
effective control of ASI, saying they will withdraw
otherwise.
The row intensified earlier this month when a
Senegalese court ruling banned RAM from withdrawing
from the Senegalese carrier. RAM
is appealing the decision.
The Senegalese transport ministry said on Friday that
minister Habib Sy had invited his Moroccan counterpart
to attend a special meeting on April 29 to resolve the
crisis engulfing RAM and ASI.
They had not yet received a reply to the invitation. -
Sapa-AFP
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