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Watch: Ambassador Aviation increases competition in Mozambique
2:02 CAT | 08 Dec 2016
DW / Ambassador Aviation's C9-MAF airplane
Air transport of people and goods should be easier and more competitive since Monday, especially in the north of the country, with the entry into service of the first of the two 15-seater C9-MAFaircraft owned by Ambassador Aviation
The Mozambican airline was established in 1999 and launched services in Nampula in March 2015, with the focus on tourist sites.
Initially the company will operate flights to Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Niassa, reaching destinations with difficult land access and where the runways are short.
Enthusiasm
Residents in Nampula are enthusiastic because they believe the airline will increase competition and improve air services, until now the monopoly of public company Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM).
Ortigo Marcos is one of the optimists who would like to see the new airline not only make a profit, but also provide better service to the population. “This company will allow us to get to places LAM does not serve,” he said.
Elisa Rodrigues, also interviewed by DW Africa, believes that the company will “make travelling flexible”, as well as reaching more remote places and communities. However, she cautions the companies not to peg prices beyond the reach of the average consumer.
Other companies
Another company, Air Corridor, previously operated in the north-centre region, but succumbed to financial difficulties. Rodrigues hopes the new company will be more permanent. “We were used to Air Corridor, but they did not last. I hope this company is here to stay,” she said.
Ambassador Aviation administrator Dinis Cardoso say the company will serve communities in Nampula province, including businesses, government and non-governmental organisations, transporting goods and people to places that are difficult to reach by land and where aircraft do not usually land.
“These aircraft can land on very short runways,” Cardoso says. He has already marketed low-cost flights to churches and organisations working in remote communities. “We want to keep this way of thinking, but without ignoring the profit that will help us grow,” he added.
Nampula province governor Victor Borges presided over the inauguration and said that the company could play an important role in the growth of the tourism sector in the province and the country, as well as improving the transportation of people and goods.
“The provincial government is happy to support this company going forward,” he said.
Source: Deutsche Welle / TVM
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Hilarious!
C9-MAF is the ICAO/Mozambique aircraft registration, NOT the aircraft type.
The aircraft is in fact (as far as I can see) a Cessna C208 Caravan…