SIXTH CONSECUTIVE WORLD TRAVEL AWARD FOR FASTJET AS AFRICA’S BEST
(Posted 23rd October 2021)
Fastjet has been awardeD the World Travel Award as “Africa’s Leading Low-Cost Airline 2021” for the sixth consecutive year.
The results follow a year-long search for the world’s top travel, tourism and hospitality brands. Votes were cast by travel industry professionals and the public, with the nominee gaining the most votes in each category named as the winner.
World Travel Awards is a leading authority that recognises and rewards excellence in travel and tourism – and today they unveiled their Africa and Indian Ocean 2021 winners. The awards acknowledge, reward, and celebrate excellence in the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries and are recognised globally as a sign of industry excellence.
A fastjet spokesperson said, “We take pride in making the customer the centre of our business philosophy, operations and new business initiatives, and we thank all customers and industry professionals who voted for us. This recognition is an acknowledgement of the dedication and hard work of our staff, and the airline’s commitment to maintain and grow services against a backdrop of significant global challenges. We are therefore proud to be named the Africa’s Leading Low-Cost Airline for 2021, in this our sixth consecutive year of winning this award”.
Graham Cooke, Founder, World Travel Awards, said “Our winners represent the very best of travel and hospitality in Africa and the Indian Ocean and my congratulations to each of them. They are all playing starring roles in spearheading the travel and tourism recovery.”
The multiple award-winning airline has recently introduced an additional (third) Embraer ERJ145 to their fleet and offers several service enhancements such as car hire through Avis, new payment options through partnerships with Chicken Inn, CBZ Bank and Stanbic Mobile Money and this week announced a new route for 2022, connecting Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe with Nelspruit’s Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, South Africa.
This route will commence service from 16th of March 2022 initially every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Effective July 2022 will the service be upscaled to daily flights between the two destinations.
The Victoria Falls – Kruger Mpumalanga route brings to three routes that Fastjet connects destination Victoria Falls with, after scheduled flights from Harare and Johannesburg.
