Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
According to a report featured in Zimbabwe Voice on 14 December 2019 and a prior report featured in Zimbabwe newspaper Newsday on 13 December 2019, Air Zimbabwe is planning to resume regional and international flights in 2020 with five aircraft.
Out of the five aircraft, two are Boeing B777-200 aircraft which previously belonged to Malaysia Airlines, the existing B777 in the former Zimbabwe Airways livery and two Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft. One of the Embraer aircraft will be leased from an African airline, according to Mthli Ncube, Zimbabwe's Finance and Economic Development Minister.
The two B777-200ER aircraft currently under renovation is expected to arrive in Harare from Kuala Lumpur before end of 2019 in the name of Air Zimbabwe.
According to the B777 aircraft purchaser Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John Mangudya, quoted by Newsday, the Zimbabwe Airways project did not take off as Zimbabwe Airways was a shelf company. There is no plan to launch another national airline in the name of Zimbabwe Airways.
John's objective of the aircraft purchase is to see Air Zimbabwe reclaiming its status as a reliable national airline of Zimbabwe in southern Africa and the world.
Air Zimbabwe plans to resume African domestic and regional routes with the Embraer while the Boeing aircraft will be utilized on routes to London, Johannesburg, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other terminated international destinations.
Air Zimbabwe's B767 has ad hoc charter flights to Singapore, of which its final flight from Singapore was fetching the dictator Mugabe's body back to Harare for memorial service in 2019. Its flights to Johannesburg, Dar Es Salaam, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls were cancelled intermittently due to mechanical faults.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
According to a report featured in Zimbabwe Voice on 14 December 2019 and a prior report featured in Zimbabwe newspaper Newsday on 13 December 2019, Air Zimbabwe is planning to resume regional and international flights in 2020 with five aircraft.
Out of the five aircraft, two are Boeing B777-200 aircraft which previously belonged to Malaysia Airlines, the existing B777 in the former Zimbabwe Airways livery and two Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft. One of the Embraer aircraft will be leased from an African airline, according to Mthli Ncube, Zimbabwe's Finance and Economic Development Minister.
The two B777-200ER aircraft currently under renovation is expected to arrive in Harare from Kuala Lumpur before end of 2019 in the name of Air Zimbabwe.
According to the B777 aircraft purchaser Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John Mangudya, quoted by Newsday, the Zimbabwe Airways project did not take off as Zimbabwe Airways was a shelf company. There is no plan to launch another national airline in the name of Zimbabwe Airways.
John's objective of the aircraft purchase is to see Air Zimbabwe reclaiming its status as a reliable national airline of Zimbabwe in southern Africa and the world.
Air Zimbabwe plans to resume African domestic and regional routes with the Embraer while the Boeing aircraft will be utilized on routes to London, Johannesburg, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other terminated international destinations.
Air Zimbabwe's B767 has ad hoc charter flights to Singapore, of which its final flight from Singapore was fetching the dictator Mugabe's body back to Harare for memorial service in 2019. Its flights to Johannesburg, Dar Es Salaam, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls were cancelled intermittently due to mechanical faults.
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