Zambezi Airlines, Air Malawi in partnership talks

ZAMBEZI Airlines’ growth strategy is focused on partnerships with other carriers in the region, chief executive officer Cornwell Muleya has said.

And Muleya has disclosed that Zambezi Airlines is currently in talks with Air Malawi for a possible partnership to enhance operations of the two airlines.

In an interview after the launch of the airline’s flights between Lusaka and Dar es Salaam, Muleya said partnerships were an important factor under the current economic environment.

“Partnerships are the best way to go in the times we find ourselves operating in…,” Muleya said.

He said the airline was in different stages of negotiations with several carriers in the region for strategic partnerships.

I can confirm for example that talks with Air Malawi have reached an advanced stage and you should be hearing an announcement concerning the same as early as next month,” said Muleya.

And Zambia’s High Commissioner to Tanzania Professor Royson Mukwena has appealed to the Zambian and Tanzanian tourist’ boards to develop packages that could bring great benefits to both countries.

During the launch of Zambezi Airlines’ flights between Lusaka and Dar es Salaam at a dinner in Dar es Salaam, High Commissioner Mukwena said there was need for the two countries to work together.

The Bilateral Services Agreement (BASA) that was signed between the two countries must serve as a launch pad not only for what we are witnessing today but better benefits to the peoples of the two countries. These benefits should translate into various economic benefits such as increased trade and investment, employment creation, poverty reduction and general stability in people’s standards of living,” said High Commissioner Mukwena. “Furthermore, the benefits should enhance and increase the contribution of the tourism sectors to economic growth of the two countries by increasing the number of local and foreign tourists to our attractive tourist destinations such as the Kilimanjaro and Nogorongoro crater in Tanzania and the mighty Victoria Falls and Kalambo Falls in Zambia to name but a few.”