[2] The new airline is a merger of the defunct Air Burundi, which ceased operations in 2009, and SOBUGEA, a Burundian government-owned company responsible for ground handling and airport maintenance.
The new combined entity will own 92 percent of Burundi Airlines stock.
[1][3] The table below illustrates the shareholding in the stock of Burundi Airlines, as of February 2021.
Other shareholders include the state-owned insurer, Société d’Assurances du Burundi (SOCABU) and the estate of the defunct Belgian airline, SABENA.
[1][2][6][7] In 2012 the defunct Air Burundi took delivery of a Xian MA60, 52-seater, two-engine turboprop aircraft.