A lot has been changed in West Africa since the demise of
Swissair, Sabena and AirAfrique .
New companies are coming and going, for the time being it is very difficult to
hold this page updated.
Also there is no longer the possibility to fly via Togo with KLM.
Aeroflot, in earlier times the bigest company with most of
destinations over the the world, serves today neither Bénin nor Togo.
Cotonou is actually being served from Europe by :
AirFrance,
(ca. 600* - 1'500 EUR),
4 times weekly, Mo, We, Fr & So, with connections in Paris to
many European cities.
(Since 2007 only 4 times a week, Sa has been cancelled).
Attention, there is no flight at Thursday, this is a technical
flight to Lomé, it stops at Cotonou, but only for the
personnel of AirFrance!
Please note : A new luggage system has been introduced since
1st of November 2005, 2 pieces of each 23 kg (or 32kg in
Business Class) are allowed.
Each of the two pieces may weight up to 32 kg (Economic), then a
supplementary tax of 50 EUR is applicable for each of them.
Additionally Notebook and Handluggage up to 12 kg.
An aditionally tax has to be paid for a third piece of luggae up to
23/32 kg of 125 EUR (23kg), respectively 175 EUR (32kg).
*) Flightrates down to 600 EUR can be found in the internet, but they
are very well hidden. Try a flight reservation 15 to 30 days in advance
and a stay from one weekend to 30 days!
Examples of prices :
Paris (CDG) <==> Cotonou (COO), 28.02.2007 - 30.03.2007, 786.16 EUR, Request @ 20.01.2007
Mulhouse(MLH) <==> Cotonou (COO), 28.02.2007 - 30.03.2007, 831.13 EUR, Request @ 20.01.2007
Tips for travellers from Switzerland and Germany : If you travel from "Basel Mulhouse MLH" (the french side) or from
"Strasburg SXW", you pay 100 up to 200 Euro(!) less, than if you
check in on the Swiss side (BSL), respectively flying from
Frankfurt.
- For economic tickets and good advice ask at
Globetrotter Travel Service or via mail in Zürich
at "zh-loewenstrasse@globetrotter.ch", taking reference to
"Au Jardin Helvetia".
Ghana International Airlines,
vormals Ghana Airways.
The new airline serves only one times weekly from London to
Accra (no flights from Düsseldorf anymore).
Afrique Airlines (afriqueairlines.net), vormals auch Air Togo (airtogo.net) oder Air Togo (DE) does not fly anymore since mid March 2005 !
The service and the behaviour towards the clients was beyond any
discription ! Not to be recommended at all. The flights have been served
by "Eagle Aviation" (http://www.eagle-aviation.net).
Afriqiyah (Lybian Airways) &
Afriqiyah Deutschland,
(ca. 650 - 750 EUR),
2 - 3 times per week from Paris, Bruxelles, Düsseldorf &
Geneva to Cotonou (via Niamey) and to Lomé, with change in Tripoli.
The seats in the airplanes (A320) are very close together, the service
is not yet up to 100%. Instead of orangejuce a Fanta will be served or
even pure water...
Advantage, to bring luggage up to 40 kg for free (AF 46kg now),
but it has to be noted on the ticket!, otherwise 9 EUR per kg!)
Point Afrique, (ca. 750 - 800 EUR,
no meals).
The company is not flying itself and does not have a service all
the year.
You can bring up to 40 (to go) 30 kg and 30 kg (return) of luggage!
40 kg return has to be paid.
Nouvelles Frontières offers from time to time economic fligths from
Basel - Mulhouse and from Paris to Cotonou and Lomé.
On their website are flights to Togo only !
Better information than in the web is available by telephone in
the office at Mulhouse (F).
Groupe Royal Air Maroc offers very cheap flights from Europe (different destinations)
to Cotonou via Casablanca twice to four times a week, since 2nd of
November 2005.
The flights are now not noted in the Internet, but there is no online
reservation nor a pricelist available. A timetable in *.pdf can be
downloaded.
Timetableinformationen, tarifs and reservations :
callcenter@royalairmaroc.co.ma
Air Burkina,
(460 EUR, 299'000FCFA TTC).
New Company apearing in the last time, no experience up to now.
Its not sure if the company is flying itself and does have a
service all the year.
check if its not something similar to
• Afrique Airlines
or
• Air Togo above.
- We do not recommend flights with a change of airplane in Lagos
(Nigeria) for newcomers in Africa.
- There are a lot of inner-african flights, specially from and
to countries of West Africa.
- There are no flights inside of Bénin, the only other airport
is in Parakou (for small aircraft only).
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