[2] It was founded on behalf of Brussels Airlines and other Belgian investors in 2009, and operated scheduled regional flights from its base at Lubumbashi International Airport.

On 4 September 2015, Korongo Airlines ceased all operations[1] because it did not have enough reservations (despite a 70% load factor), and because of damage caused to the only airplane in the fleet a week earlier.

In that year, airDC was founded as a joint venture with Hewa Bora Airways, and the launch of commercial regional flights from Kinshasa-N'djili Airport using a fleet of BAe 146-200s handed over by Brussels Airlines was planned for early 2008.

[3][4] Concerns about the success of the project were voiced in 2008 when the disaster of Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 revealed serious aviation safety flaws in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The competition from the newly established Congolese competitor Congo Airways, and an incident two weeks[11] prior to the declaration, involving the only airplane in the fleet, Boeing 737-300 OO-LTM, were referred to as cause for the liquidation of the company.