Reports from the airline's headquarters in
Tanzania's capital city of Dar es Salaam said a fast-growing airline
will increase its flight frequencies to East Africa's leading tourist
destinations of Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania and the Spice Island of
Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean.
Tanzania's privately-owned Precision Air is set to extend its
frequencies to cover key tourist areas in northern, southern and the
Indian Ocean beach sites.
The Kilimanjaro route serves tourists booked to visit East Africa's
premier wildlife parks of Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, Lake Manyara
which is famous for tree climbing lions, Arusha and Mount Kilimanjaro.
Zanzibar route serves visitors to the beach sites of Zanzibar and the
twin island of Pemba; all famous for water sports, dolphin watching,
beach excursions and deep sea fishing.
Other than these key tourist hotspots, the airline will fly to the
upcoming Mtwara town in southern tip of Tanzania near the Mozambican
border. This area is best for cultural, beach and historical
attractions, while discovery of natural gas and oil had so far attracted
scores of business executives to visit the area.
The airline's Group Managing Director Sauda Rajab said the adjusted
scheduled flight frequencies to Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and Mtwara will
start March 16 with expectations to give passengers more options in
their itineraries.
The airline has suspended its operations between Dar es Salaam and
Entebbe in neighboring Uganda in favor of code sharing with Air Uganda, a
partner airline and Kenya Airways, a shareholder airline.
Under such an arrangement, passengers flying between Dar es Salaam
and Mtwara will now have an option of ten flights a week from seven,
including evening flights, all operated Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
After the collapse of Tanzania's state owned Air Tanzania Corporation
(ATC) that was launched in 1977, Precision Air had taken a tough task
to serve domestic and regional destinations, some of which, once
abandoned by the state owned ATC.
Tanzania, the biggest nation in East Africa, had for decades lacking
reliable air connection before Precision Air took the skies.
Rich in tourism, regions in Southern parts of this country are still
lacking air services caused by poor aircraft handling facilities and
airports of international standards.
Only the coastal, western and northern zones of Tanzania are
accessible by air, while the remaining zones are lacking air services.
Mbeya, an upcoming investment and tourist destination has been linked
to the rest of Tanzania and the world after Precision Air launched its
schedule flights there.
Mbeya is an entry point for tourists traveling from Southern African states to Eastern Africa.
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