Updates on Air Tanzania's Guangzhou and Mumbai flights until further notice

 Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image : YouTube

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Air Tanzania postpones Guangzhou flight from 20 March 2021 until further notice

Air Tanzania, that intended to launch its official inaugural scheduled flight to Guangzhou from Dar Es Salaam via Mumbai on 20 March 2021 has cancelled the inaugural flight and the new inaugural flight date will be advised in due course.

The Tanzanian flag carrier originally planned to operate flights to Guangzhou every Saturday. However, due to the "current pressure and capacity limit of Guangdong Local Government on COVID19 control and prevention for inbound flights", it decided to defer the flight until further notice.

The flight suspension has come at the time when the Tanzanian President John Joseph Pombe Magufuli passed away suddenly, recently and suspectibly from covid.

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Air Tanzania resumed flight to Mumbai, partners with Air India on Indian domestic flights

Air Tanzania resumed its intercontinental flight to Mumbai from Dar Es Salaam on 9 November 2020 under the "India bubble flights" agreement, which sees its 787-8 flying thrice weekly to Mumbai on Sundays, Mondays and Fridays. 

In January 2021, Air Tanzania signed a partnership agreement with Air India on feeding African passenger traffic to the latter's domestic flights from Mumbai to such cities as Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kochi and Madurai. On 29 January 2021, it started ticketing partnership arrangements on flights to the first four Indian cities Jaipur, Delhi, Bhopal and Bengaluru with Air India.