Through the “Staff Travel” program, plane tickets are reserved for staff. But, according to the report, certain rights holders took the opportunity to sell the titles to third parties. “These abuses led to the dismissal of an agent responsible for ticket sales,” reports the daily newspaper of the Future Media Group (Gfm).
The management of Air Senegal does not intend to stop there. “She has launched steps to recover the sums unduly received, including from external beneficiaries,” the newspaper informs. The report also accuses certain officials of having ordered the distribution of ‘Staff’ tickets for the benefit of third parties, at the company’s expense. These same officials also allegedly purchased tickets on foreign companies, in unlimited numbers, often in business class, for external beneficiaries. A waste estimated at several tens of millions of CFA francs.”
Shenanigans on flights from Abidjan cost the Air Senegal station manager his job in the Ivorian capital. The latter, informs L’Observateur, “would have boarded passengers by charging them the lowest fare, without the agreement of his representative and beyond the capacities of the class concerned.” “In addition,” says the same source, “certain agents have frequently canceled penalties in flagrant violation of procedures, causing a considerable loss of income for the company.”
-The Observer continues: “Operation Hadj 2024, which was supposed to be a breath of fresh air in terms of revenue, ended in a loss of several billion Cfa francs. The general management [d’Air Sénégal] does not rule out legal action against the people identified by the internal audit, investigations being underway to determine the exact reasons for this deficit.”
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