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More domestic flights between Maputo, Beira and Tete

1:34 CAT | 18 May 2018

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Domestic flights between Maputo and the city of Beira, and Tete, are to be more frequent, one of the domestic flight operators in Mozambique announced today.

“The route between Maputo and Beira now has two flights a day, six days a week,” Fastjet said in a statement, while the route between the capital and Tete, in the central interior of the country, now has an additional return flight on Thursdays.

“Additional flights between Maputo and Beira now make it possible to do business in both cities on the same day,” said Fastjet Mozambique Country Manager Susana Ribeiro. “With flights in the morning and late afternoon, the schedule was designed to focus on business travel and to enable leisure travel with affordable and sustainable fares.

“The increase in flights between Maputo and Tete also allows for better connections between the cities. Following an analysis of the needs of its customers, Fastjet has introduced an additional return flight on Thursdays,” she said.

The statement notes that the airline started operating in Mozambique in November last year and “has since been gaining the confidence of travellers with an increasing volume of passengers and exemplary punctuality” 90 percent overall in the first quarter, according to the communique.

The more-than two thousand kilometre extent of the country and the poor road network mean that air transport is vital, but the operating difficulties of the state-owned company, LAM, has prompted complaints, even from the president of the country himself.

In such a scenario did Fastjet in November, 2017, become the first foreign company to make domestic flights in Mozambique., followed in March of this year by the signing of a memorandum covering the sharing of passenger aircraft between LAM and Fastjet.

The memorandum also provides for other forms of “route exploration agreements, optimisation of synergies in the operations of flights to common and complementary destinations, as well as cooperation in other commercial, cargo, engineering and maintenance activities”.

Source: Lusa / fastjet / Press Release