In 2009, the Agence France Press (AFP) reported that the CEO of CEIBA Intercontinental Mamadou Jaye, a Senegalese citizen of Gambian origin, left Equatorial Guinea with a suitcase containing 3.5 billion CFA francs (approximately 5 million euros or 6.5 million United States dollars) and spare ATR aircraft parts to negotiate trade deals with Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, and Senegal and to establish a West African office for CEIBA. The report said that Jaye never returned to Equatorial Guinea.[4] Jaye denied that he took money from the company and filed a lawsuit against Rodrigo Angwe, the Malabo-based correspondent for Agence France Presse and Radio France Internationale (RFI) who submitted the story. Angwe used an employee as a source; the employee said that he received the information from the internet. After the employee's admission, AFP and RFI retracted the story. Jaye accused Angwe of publishing the internet article himself.[5]
CEIBA Intercontinental aircraft have economy class and business class cabins. In addition, the airline's single Boeing 777-200LR includes a first class cabin.[13]
^"ATR 42-500". CEIBA Intercontinental (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
^"ATR 72-500". CEIBA Intercontinental (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
^"Boeing 737-800W". CEIBA Intercontinental (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
^"Boeing 777-200LR". CEIBA Intercontinental (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
^"3 clases de servicio" [Three classes of service]. CEIBA Intercontinental (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.