Zambia plans new national airline
Zambia’s central government confirmed this week that it was considering re-establishing a national airline to help boost the country’s booming tourism industry.
The new proposed airline would be essentially a charter service for package tours to the country, and would attempt to avoid operating the crippling daily flight schedules that bankrupted Zambia Airways in 1994.
Zambian Board of Airline Representative (BAR) chairman Charles Tembo welcomed the government’s review, saying the country needed a more competitive international carrier to shake up the monopoly enjoyed by regional airlines.
“Any competition or decrease in airfares to Zambia would go a long way towards promoting the tourism sector,” he said.
Tembo added that national airlines were also important tourism marketing agents, and that a well-managed and clearly targeted airline could provide invaluable for the country’s tourism image.
(African Eye News Service)
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