Fastjet
has announced that they will be launching flights between Kilimanjaro
International Airport and Entebbe on March 31, extending the present Dar
es Salaam to Entebbe service with the stop at Kilimanjaro International
Airport (JRO).
Arusha,
some 50 kilometers away, is the seat of the East Africa Community, and
as such, a center of political gravity for the region. Travelers to
Arusha have over the past 9 months had to contend with indirect flights
via Kigali with RwandAir or via Nairobi with Kenya Airways/Precision
Air, and the newly-restored option of nonstop flights will no doubt be
appealing to many.
The
combination of the two routes is also thought to be raising the load
factors on the route for Fastjet, which had launched the Dar to Entebbe
route last year but was looking for a passenger boost.
Only
a few weeks ago, Fastjet launched flights from Kilimanjaro to Mwanza,
giving travelers booking early, the option to fly at a cost not much
greater than a bus fare.
There
has, sadly for Fastjet, not been any movement on them getting landing
rights in Nairobi for which the airline, designated on the route by the
Tanzanian Civil Aviation Authority, has applied earlier last year. Also
still stuck in government “bureaucrazy,” pun intended, is the airline’s
application to set up a business in Kenya, where no air service license
has been granted yet.
Next
on the horizon for Fastjet will be the launch of their operation in
Zambia where the airline plans to fly from Lusaka to Johannesburg and on
the domestic routes to Livingstone and other key Zambian towns.
Source: Eturbo News
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