The announcement of the launch of the national airline Guinea Airlines by the GBM lottery group Antonio Souaré and Regourd Aviation led by Alain Regourd intervened in February 2017.
The two partners had agreed on the terms of the circulation of this company, which was to serve domestic flights to the regional capitals of Guinea and some capitals of the West African subregion as Dakar, Banjul, Abidjan, Monrovia, Freetown, Bamako.
A year later, the Guinean government and GBM decided to change partners. À now the place of Regourd Aviation, the choice is focused on African partners in this case Ethiopians Airlines and ASKY Airlines. The three partners signed the 30 January 2018 in Addis Ababa, a strategic partnership, concerning the management, equipment, maintenance and training of the staff of the future company.
Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines and Cheick Dem, CEO of Guinea Airlines and advisor to Antonio Souaré welcomed the progress of negotiations since the first inaugural flight to a capital of the sub-region is planned in next June with a fleet of three planes including twoDash-8 Q400 and oneBoeing 737.
The start of domestic flights is conditioned in the agreement to refurbishment by the government and its GBM partner of regional airports.
