Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation

Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, branded as flyCAA, is a regional airline from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa.

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History

Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation was originally founded in 1991 and started operations on 26 December 1992. In 2013, CAA merged with FlyCongo and formed flyCAA.
In January 2016, the airline terminated their only international route to Johannesburg after failing to receive renewed traffic rights. In 2020, the airline acquired an Airbus A330-200 with the stated intention of flying to Brussels, Belgium which under current European Union restrictions would require CAA to operate the service using foreign registration and crew as FlyCAA has been banned in the EU.
On August 29, 2023 flyCAA passengers ended up having to take their trip by bus after multiple delays. Also in 2023 CAA had multiple fare increases in the city of Mbuji-Mayi.In Mbuji-Mayi many passengers also began struggling to get plane tickets and flyCAA and Congo Airways were overwhelmed as a result.
In 2024, flyCAA expanded its fleet with a leased Boeing 767-200BDSF cargo aircraft.
In 2025 KF Aerospace bought a third ATR 72-500 from FlyCAA, flyCAA added an A321 freighter to boost cargo capacity reactivated it's sole A330-300. flyCAA also faced numerous cancelations in 2025 along with other carriers.

Destinations

According to the August 2013 timetable, flyCAA operated scheduled flights to the following destinations: As of 2024, they downsized their network to 18 routes between 11 destinations.

State	City	Airport
DR Congo	Beni	Beni Airport
DR Congo	Boende	Boende Airport
DR Congo	Bukavu	Kavumu Airport
DR Congo	Bumba	Bumba Airport
DR Congo	Bunia	Bunia Airport
DR Congo	Gemena	Gemena Airport
DR Congo	Goma	Goma International Airport
DR Congo	Isiro	Matari Airport
DR Congo	Kalemie	Kalemie Airport
DR Congo	Kananga	Kananga Airport
DR Congo	Kindu	Kindu Airport
DR Congo	Kinshasa	N'djili Airport base
DR Congo	Kisangani	Bangoka International Airport
DR Congo	Kongolo	Kongolo Airport
DR Congo	Lisala	Lisala Airport
DR Congo	Lodja	Lodja Airport
DR Congo	Lubumbashi	Lubumbashi International Airport focus city
DR Congo	Mbandaka	Mbandaka Airport
DR Congo	Mbuji-Mayi	Mbuji Mayi Airport
DR Congo	Tshikapa	Tshikapa Airport

Fleet

Current fleet

As of November 2024, the flyCAA fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Former fleet

Previously, flyCAA also operated the following aircraft types:

Aircraft	Introduced	Retired	Refs
Airbus A321-200	2016	2021
Fokker 100	2011	2014
McDonnell Douglas MD-81	2005	2010
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	2008	2012
Ilyushin Il-18	unknown	unknown
Douglas DC-8	unknown	unknown

Accidents and incidents

On 1 April 1997, a Convair CV-580 was destroyed at Tshikapa Airport when it overshot the runway and hit an embankment following a failed take-off abortion. There were fourteen occupants on board the scheduled flight to Mbuji-Mayi.
On 18 November 1999, another CV-580 had to be written off following an off-airport emergency landing near Tshikapa due to an engine failure that had been encountered shortly into the flight to Kananga.
On 19 November 2009, Flight 3711 from Kinshasa overran the runway upon landing at Goma Airport. Of the 117 occupants on board the aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 registered 9Q-CAB, around 20 were injured.
On 2 January 2010, a cargo-configured Boeing 727 veered off the runway during an emergency landing attempt in heavy rain at N'djili Airport. Previously, the pilots had reported a loss of hydraulic pressure.
The only fatal accident involving an aircraft of Compagnie d'Aviation Africaine occurred on 4 March 2013, when a Fokker 50 crashed near Goma International Airport. Of the nine people who had been on the flight from Lodja, six were killed.
On January 29 2023 an A320 departing from Mbuji Mayi dropped a part of the left elevator on departure. Everyone onboard survived the incident