Fly Africa to refund passengers

Fly Africa Zimbabwe will refund over 15 000 passengers who bought tickets just before and after the airline's operating licence was withdrawn recently.

This came as employees of the grounded airline received letters sending them on unpaid leave.

Fly Africa chief executive officer, Adrian Hamilton-Manns, yesterday said that the shareholder dispute led to its Zimbabwe side's bank account being frozen with the parent company having to step in.

He could, however, not say how much money the airline was refunding to passengers. Manns said passengers will be refunded after one and half months from the date that their flights were cancelled.

The shareholder dispute is over funds that went missing and were suspected to have been externalized leaving the company without money to pay the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ).