Air Zimbabwe resume Gatwick flights
26.09.11
Air Zimbabwe resumed Gatwick flights yesterday, just over a week after pilots returned to work following a 50-day strike. One of the airline’s two Boeing 767-200 planes flew out of Harare on Sunday morning with 107 passengers and touched down at Gatwick just before 21:00 last night.
The plane, with a capacity of 198 passengers, will make its return flight tonight, with this single weekly schedule to continue until at least early November, by which time airline bosses hope to return to their previously two flights a week schedule.
David Mwenga, the airline’s general manager for Europe, said: ‘It is a phased return. We have to work hard to re-earn the trust of our customers who have been severely inconvenienced by the industrial action by pilots. We will expand the service as soon as passenger numbers pick up.’
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