New airline to start next month
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk

11 August 2009

By STAFF REPORTER

BULAWAYO - Struggling state-owned airline, Air Zimbabwe, is to face stiff
competition from a privately-owned airline to be launched next month.
Reeling from decades of government abuse and corruption, the airline has
been struggling for survival and recently retrenched 420 workers.

A new local airline, Fly Kumba, is to be launched in September. The new
airline says its thrust will be on ensuring that flying is both affordable
and convenient and is geared to cater for the burgeoning travelling
population plying the Harare-Johannesburg and Bulawayo-Johannesburg routes.

Chief Executive Officer, Lloyd Muchaka, said the airline's vision and
mission was centred on ensuring that flying was affordable to everyone. "We
intend to become Zimbabwe's preferred low-cost airline, delivering the
cheapest air fares with the highest consumer value and offering world-class
service to the price sensitive consumer. Fly Kumba intends to fulfil
everyone's dream of flying based on very low fares," said Machaka.

He added: "The new airline seeks to complement the tourist sector and sees
ongoing efforts to rebrand the country as an opportunity for the airline to
play its part in enhancing the image of the country to the outside world."

Fly Kumba has acquired a new generation fleet of Boeing 737-200 backed by
cutting edge technology and infrastructure to ensure the highest standards
in operating efficiency.

Perhaps they should have inserted the word safety in there somewhere.

737-200... hardly cutting edge.

no thanks. any airline based in Zim is off my list of travel options.

+1

There is no such thing as a new generation 737-200. The last 200 was built in the 70's or the early 80's.

How do you convert a hundred million dollars into a million dollars?

Buy an airline.

What a scary thought!!
You couldn't pay me enough for that one!!

Could it be worse than Air Zimbabwe?

Not a word about larger more comfortable seats either.