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Zimbabwe: Airzim, DRC Airline Strike Deal

allafrica.com

AIR Zimbabwe will ply the Harare-Kinshasa-Brussels route on Thursdays and Mondays in conjunction with the Democratic Republic of Congo national airline, LAC, from the end of this month.

LAC has the licence to ply the Kinshasa-Brussels route but does not have planes to service it and Air Zimbabwe will provide the planes.

Air Zimbabwe public relations manager Mr David Mwenga said the national airline also had to reschedule its flights to Angola and DRC in line with the new development.

"We are introducing a new route, the Harare-Kinshasa-Brussels route, in which we will be using our Boeing 767. "We are obviously searching for extra foreign currency earnings.

"We want our flight on the new route to coincide with the European winter and this is why we have scheduled the first flight to the end of September. "LAC has the licence to Brussels but they have no planes so we will use our planes and we will be in charge of the flights," said Mr Mwenga.

He said the previous Harare-Luanda-Kinshasa flight would be rescheduled to Harare-Luanda only while there will be a Harare-Kinshasa route.

The new development comes hardly two months after Air Zimbabwe launched the Harare-Lusaka-Dubai and Harare-Lusaka-Gatwick routes. It comes also hardly three months after Air Zimbabwe reintroduced the Harare-Masvingo-Buffalo Range route to service the southern part of the country which includes the Great Zimbabwe National Monuments and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.

 Printable Version  | published Sep 06, 2007