AV Cargo

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AV Cargo Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
Z3SMJAVAVIA [1]
Founded2013
Ceased operations2014
Hubs Liège Airport
Fleet size1 (+ 2 On Order/Planned)
Destinations68 (scheduled)
Headquarters Harare, Zimbabwe
Key peopleSimon Clarke (CEO)
Website www.avcargo.co.uk

AV Cargo Airlines Ltd was an international cargo airline, with its head office in Harare, Zimbabwe, It operated scheduled domestic, regional and international cargo services, its commercial center in the London Gatwick United Kingdom, The Zimbabwean company was established in 2013 by Neil and Glover Simon Clarke, CEO of bankrupt Avient Aviation, and offered scheduled and chartered flights - based on Avient's market - to UK and Ireland, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America, its European hub in Liège Airport Belgium. [2]

Cargo airline airline primarily involved in transport of air freight as opposed to passenger services

Cargo airlines are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of cargo by air. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.

Harare City and Province in Zimbabwe

Harare is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 960.6 km2 (371 mi2) and an estimated population of 1,606,000 in 2009, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area in 2006. Situated in north-eastern Zimbabwe in the country's Mashonaland region, Harare is a metropolitan province, which also incorporates the municipalities of Chitungwiza and Epworth. The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1,483 metres above sea level and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category.

Zimbabwe Republic in southern Africa

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare and the second largest being Bulawayo. A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.

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Destinations

AV Cargo Airlines offers scheduled flights to the following destinations [3]

Africa

Burkina Faso Country in Africa

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of around 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) and is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north; Niger to the east; Benin to the southeast; Togo and Ghana to the south; and Ivory Coast to the southwest. The July 2019 population estimate by the United Nations was 20,321,378. Burkina Faso is a francophone country, with French as the official language of government and business. Roughly 40% of the population speaks the Mossi language. Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabé. Its capital is Ouagadougou.

Ouagadougou City in Centre Region, Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou, also Vagaga, is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,200,000 in 2015. The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais. The spelling of the name Ouagadougou is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies.

Ouagadougou Airport airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou Airport, officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an airport in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s, and it is approximately 1.5 km southeast of the main commercial area. The site itself is approximately 4.8 km in length, 0.5 km in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 4.26 km2. Its runway is 3 000 m long. When the airport was built it was on the southern boundary of the city. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.

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  2. ↑ "AV Cargo Airlines on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
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