{"id":200,"date":"2011-05-17T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandair-adds-libreville-to-its-growing-network\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:47:55","slug":"rwandair-adds-libreville-to-its-growing-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandair-adds-libreville-to-its-growing-network\/","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir adds Libreville to its growing network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong><span data-scaytid=\"1\" data-scayt_word=\"RwandAir\">RwandAir<\/span> the national carrier of Rwanda today launched flights from Kigali to Libreville the capital city of the West Central African republic of Gabon. The three weekly flights have been designed to operate a triangular schedule between Kigali, Libreville and Brazzaville with full right to ferry passengers between Libreville and Brazzaville.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making this announcement at a <span data-scaytid=\"24\" data-scayt_word=\"colourful\">colourful<\/span> ceremony hosted by the Gabon Ministry of Transport in Libreville , <span data-scaytid=\"20\" data-scayt_word=\"RwandAir\">RwandAir<\/span> CEO John <span data-scaytid=\"5\" data-scayt_word=\"Mirenge\">Mirenge<\/span> affirmed the airlines\u2019 commitment to linking Central and West African cities with East Africa. \u201cEarlier this year we launched flights to Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, but that was not the end of it, we were just finalizing arrangements for Libreville which we are now proud to launch,\u201d said Mr&nbsp;<span data-scaytid=\"6\" data-scayt_word=\"Mirenge\">Mirenge<\/span>. He further added that the memorandum of understanding for bilateral air services agreement signed between the representatives of governments of Rwanda and Gabon will allow the carriers of both countries fifth freedom rights. Kigali \u2013 Libreville flights will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>Libreville, located on the west coast of Africa along the banks of <span data-scaytid=\"7\" data-scayt_word=\"Komo\">Komo<\/span> River and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean becomes the fourth port city for <span data-scaytid=\"3\" data-scayt_word=\"RwandAir\">RwandAir<\/span> after Mombasa, Dar <span data-scaytid=\"8\" data-scayt_word=\"es\">es<\/span> Salaam and Dubai. The Brazzaville route was launched March this year and is expected to get a major boost from the planned triangular operation.<\/p>\n<p><span data-scaytid=\"4\" data-scayt_word=\"RwandAir\">RwandAir<\/span> makes Libreville its second new destination this year with another &nbsp;domestic destination, <span data-scaytid=\"39\" data-scayt_word=\"Gisenyi\">Gisenyi<\/span>, set to launch May 31, 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The airline will later this year take delivery of two Boeing 737- 800 from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. These aircraft become the first on the continent to be fitted with the Boeing \u201cSky Interior\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrier launches three weekly flights linking Kigali to Libreville and Brazzaville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[277],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-com-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}