Air Sierra Leone is back!

Air Sierra Leone will commence operations on the second of December with flights between Freetown (FNA, Seirra Leone) and London Gatwick (LGW, United Kingdom). The two countries last had direct flights in 2016.

Initial plans are to serve the route three times weekly using a Boeing 737-8, which will be operated under a wet lease. The remainder of the fleet will include one Boeing 737-400, and one Embraer ERJ145. Other planned destinations include Abidjan (ABJ, Côte d’Ivoire), Accra (ACC, Ghana), Banjul (BJL, The Gambia), Conakry (CKY, Guinea), Dakar (DSS, Senegal) and Monrovia (ROB, Liberia).

“Plans for the new airline have been in the pipeline for many years, and we are now truly excited to share our progress with the world,” Turay says. “We hope that the new routes will provide increased numbers of visitors with the chance to experience Sierra Leone’s renowned hospitality and wealth of cultural, natural and historic assets, first-hand. We hope to develop additional routes linking Sierra Leone with the U.S. in 2025.”