The Minister of Transport, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o, has informed MPs that "the two MA 60 aircraft have already received their technical certification by the aviation authority. Allowing commercial exploitation by Camair-co."

Theus, the MA60 planes will finally fly after they were had been in the workshop of the Cameroon Airlines Corporation (Camair-Co) in Douala.

According to the announcement, “camair-co is recruiting pilots and co-pilots for Boeing 737, Boeing 777 and MA 60. Please send your application to the address careers@camair-co.net."

The daily newspaper, Economie, reported yesterday that MA 60 aircraft will be used to cover domestic routes, and to some extent for some sub-regional lines.

A senior camair-co confided that “cities like Bafoussam, Bamenda, Ngaoundere, Garoua, Maroua, and Yaounde will be covered through the setting operations of aircraft MA 60. Those same aircraft will be used to cover lines like Douala-Yaounde, Douala-Bata, and Equatorial Guinea. ”

Although the company is still buckling under the weight of debt, its officials in a recovery plan approved by the Board of Directors, is expected to reduce the company’s workforce (from 700 to 400 employees), invest in domestic and sub-regional lines (hence the announcement of the commissioning of the MA 60), and invest in the comfort of long-haul passengers (hence the acquisition of a Dreamliner), the paper said.

The Boeing Consulting firm was retained to audit the management of the company. This was before deploying any new funding.

For some camair-co frames, “the audit does not prevent the current management of the company from providing recruitment for the operation of the advertised aircraft (Boeing 737, Boeing 777 and MA60).”