Fly Angola (EQ, Luanda 4 De Fevereiro) resumed domestic services between Luanda 4 De Fevereiro and Lubango in Huíla province on April 1 following a 20-month hiatus as it works to restore its domestic network.
Since March 31, Fly Angola has also connected Lubango 3x weekly with Cabinda, 1x weekly with Benguela, and 1x weekly with Windhoek International in the Namibian capital. This makes it the only airline offering direct connections on these routes, according to CEO Belarnicio Muangala.
He confirmed ADS-B data that the inaugural flight on the Luanda-Lubango route was operated with a Beech 1900D, D2-FFN (msn UE329), chartered for the occasion from Sonair (SOR, Luanda 4 De Fevereiro) due to the unavailability of the airline's own E145s, which will, however, be deployed on all the scheduled flights.
Fly Angola suspended all its domestic flights on August 18, 2023, due to economic and operational constraints exacerbated by a weakening Angolan kwanza, which, at the time, left state-owned TAAG Angola Airlines as the only scheduled domestic player.
Fly Angola's in-house fleet comprises two E145s: D2-FYE (msn 145510), subleased to the airline by International Aircraft Holdings FZCO (IAH), an associated company in Dubai; and D2-FDF (msn 145221) owned by Gestomobil.
Regionally, Fly Angola has been focusing on connections to Namibia. Since March 31, it has been serving Windhoek 2x weekly from Luanda, 3x weekly from Cabinda, and 1x weekly from Lubango.
