Something from OneDrive Memories today 3 October: an Airlink Avro RJ85 on the apron at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Gaborone, Botswana back in 2019.
As a regular flyer on Airlink for the last few years flights become a bit of a blur, so I don’t remember if I flew on this aircraft or if it happened to be on the apron while I was waiting for another flight.
Airlink operated a dozen of these, and a month after I saw this one they had all been retired from the Airlink fleet. Before that they used one for the first commercial flight to Saint Helena, albeit a charter flight, a route they now operate with Embraer E190-100 IGW aircraft on a weekly basis, and once a month linking with Ascension Island.
Air Botswana also operated two Avro RJ85s, retiring theirs in 2015. One of them is visible on Google Earth on the periphery of SSKIA.
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