Interair of South Africa has announced that they will begin flying
from Johannesburg to Dar es Salaam, initially three times a week. The
airline will use a Boeing B737-200 in a two-class configuration of 12
business and 91 economy class seats and flights will operate every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Flights are due to commence with immediate effect, raising questions as to how well prepared the airline is in regard to marketing their new services in both Tanzania and South Africa.From regular aviation sources in Dar es Salaam, it is also understood that Tanzania’s ailing national airline, Air Tanzania, intends to sign a codeshare deal with Interair to allow them to sell tickets to and from South Africa, a destination they cannot fly to themselves due to lack of aircraft.This now puts three operators on the route between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg - Fastjet, South African Airways, and the latest addition Interair - with Mango of South Africa also flying to Zanzibar on scheduled services.
Travel between the two countries has been made simple by waiving visa requirements for their nationals, which allows South Africans to travel for beach vacations to, for instance, Zanzibar without having to obtain a visa in advance, unlike as is now threatened by Kenya, while Tanzanians can enter South Africa for up to 90 days on a tourist visa issued free of cost on arrival, a measure which has already left an impact on increased trade and tourism business for both countries. Both countries are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) trade bloc.
Flights are due to commence with immediate effect, raising questions as to how well prepared the airline is in regard to marketing their new services in both Tanzania and South Africa.From regular aviation sources in Dar es Salaam, it is also understood that Tanzania’s ailing national airline, Air Tanzania, intends to sign a codeshare deal with Interair to allow them to sell tickets to and from South Africa, a destination they cannot fly to themselves due to lack of aircraft.This now puts three operators on the route between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg - Fastjet, South African Airways, and the latest addition Interair - with Mango of South Africa also flying to Zanzibar on scheduled services.
Travel between the two countries has been made simple by waiving visa requirements for their nationals, which allows South Africans to travel for beach vacations to, for instance, Zanzibar without having to obtain a visa in advance, unlike as is now threatened by Kenya, while Tanzanians can enter South Africa for up to 90 days on a tourist visa issued free of cost on arrival, a measure which has already left an impact on increased trade and tourism business for both countries. Both countries are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) trade bloc.
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