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Air France to resume flights to Kinshasa

    NAIROBI

    Air France announced on Tuesday that it would be resuming flights between Paris and Kinshasa as of 8 January 2002.

    There will be two flights per week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, using an Airbus A340-300 with a seating capacity of 252. Flights to Kinshasa will depart from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle at 11h00, arriving at 18h35 local time. Flights to Paris will depart at 22h30, arriving at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle at 6h15.

    Air France suspended its flights between Paris and Kinshasa on 4 August 1998, two days after an armed opposition coalition backed by Rwanda and Uganda launched an offensive from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo toward Kinshasa.

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