Air Algérie will regain 100% of its pre-pandemic capabilities as early as March 2023

Air Algérie will regain 100% of its pre-Covid-19 pandemic capacity from March 2023, according to the CEO of the public airline, Yacine Benslimane.

The first manager of the national pavilion announced, in an interview given on Monday, that “Air Algérie’s offer will be restored to its full pre-pandemic capacity from March 2023”, adding “that before the 31st of current month (December), there will be a substantial increase in flights, with the restoration of the most important lines”.

Mr. Benslimane recalled, on the occasion, that when he arrived at the head of the company last June, “Air Algérie’s offer was equivalent to 56% of its capacity in 2019”, welcoming the intervention of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to release traffic “having made it possible to reach nearly 68% of the company’s offer at the beginning of August, to stand at nearly 78%”.

Air Algérie thus aims “to reconquer its place on the continental market and move towards new markets, in particular Asian”, as required by the President of the Republic and this “through the development of an action plan which follows its course” having started with the opening of the Algiers-Doha link, explained the official, announcing, in passing, the upcoming launch of other links, in particular Addis Ababa, Johannesburg or Libreville.

This development plan “will extend throughout the company’s strategic plan until 2025, which provides for the opening of 18 new routes in all,” he said.