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Axis Lines International

defunct Cameroonian airline (2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2874807
Source-derived summary

Axis Lines International was a start-up airline planned to be based in Douala, Cameroon. It was intended to fly regional services with two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft and international services to Brussels, Madrid and Paris with a Boeing 767-300ER.

History

The predecessor of Axis Lines International was Axis International Lines, a Cameroon-based airline that was operational in 2005 and 2006. When bankruptcy was declared, some of the old staff and former Cameroon Airlines staff tried to raise a new airline under a slightly different name in late 2006. Further help came from local and Spanish investors.

Axis Lines International never became operational. There was never a formal declaration of bankruptcy, but airline and staff have completely dissolved.

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“Axis Lines International” enters the record as defunct Cameroonian airline (2006). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Axis, Lines and International can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Axis Lines International” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.