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Soul Air plane expected to make its maiden flight this week
25 Apr 2012 at 04:42hrs | Views
HARARE - A new 19-passenger Soul Air plane is expected to make its maiden flight this week doing charter flights for Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) participants, taking over where Air Zimbabwe has failed.
The plane, a Beech craft 1900 D model made in the United States will fly the Bulawayo-Harare route during ZITF, awaiting approval for other scheduled routes from the ministry of Transport.
Soul plane managing director Nkosilathi Sibanda said they are acquiring more planes for local and regional routes.
"We will be getting bigger 90-passenger planes; we are looking at flying to Bulawayo, Kariba, Victoria Falls and even Beira. But at the moment we are just doing chartered flights."
The local air market is now open after the fall of Air Zimbabwe, which had a monopoly over air transport in Zimbabwe.
Air Zimbabwe has been promising to resume local flights since early this year after its collapse and grounding of planes.
The national airline's collapse attracted other international aircrafts like Fly Emirates and Qatar airways to land at the Harare International Airport, joining South African Airways, Kenya Airways, Air Malawi and the British Airways; which were already servicing the Zimbabwe route.
The plane, a Beech craft 1900 D model made in the United States will fly the Bulawayo-Harare route during ZITF, awaiting approval for other scheduled routes from the ministry of Transport.
Soul plane managing director Nkosilathi Sibanda said they are acquiring more planes for local and regional routes.
"We will be getting bigger 90-passenger planes; we are looking at flying to Bulawayo, Kariba, Victoria Falls and even Beira. But at the moment we are just doing chartered flights."
The local air market is now open after the fall of Air Zimbabwe, which had a monopoly over air transport in Zimbabwe.
Air Zimbabwe has been promising to resume local flights since early this year after its collapse and grounding of planes.
The national airline's collapse attracted other international aircrafts like Fly Emirates and Qatar airways to land at the Harare International Airport, joining South African Airways, Kenya Airways, Air Malawi and the British Airways; which were already servicing the Zimbabwe route.
Source - DN
