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| The competitive airline set to grace Zimbabwean skies... |
One of the world’s leading airlines Emirates
recently launched its inaugural flight to Zimbabwe via Zambia on the 1st
of February 2012. A first for Zimbabwe,
Emirates will fly 5 times a week. Although this has sparked renewed hope for
horticultural producers and business people alike, our local airline continues
to bleed.
In recent times Air Zimbabwe has been experiencing industrial
action by pilots, debilitating air traffic control equipment, not to mention
the ageing fleet of aircraft. According
to sources Air Zimbabwe is in the process of near liquidation with most of its
assets undergoing Judicial Management with debt in excess of USD 140million.
The airline will be plying the Dubai-Harare route. Such trends have also seen Zimbabwe losing the
Johannesburg-Victoria Falls route to SAA.
It has been revealed that Emirates employs 87 Zimbabweans worldwide of probably
foreign educated universities which leave several local trained pilots and airline
staff in the doldrums. It appears the
adoption of more foreign airlines at the expense of our own local airline industry.
International flights has opened up the country to
new markets and increased the possibility of growth within the tourism industry. Unfortunately the ordinary Zimbabwean is deprived
of a wholly Zimbabwean national carrier.
Nice. Air Zimbabwe is very much delapidating, they need to privatise it and open it up to foreighn investments, otherwise it will crumble and the best we will have is the NRZ if we are not careful! :)
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