FASTJET SIGNS COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT WITH ZAMBIA’S PROFLIGHT
(Posted 04th April 2014)
Confirmation was received yesterday of Tanzania’s Fastjet having signed a commercial agreement with Zambia’s ProFlight. The two airlines put pen to paper and agreed that Fastjet will be the only airline operating on the Dar es Salaam to Lusaka route, with ProFlight withdrawing their own services effective 01st of May. Fastjet will continue to use their Airbus A319 on the route while ProFlight has been operating with a British Aerospace Jetstream 41 turboprop.
Tickets purchased on for the route can now be extended in either direction to include the respective domestic destinations which the two airlines serve in Tanzania and Zambia, with ProFlight adding a further international destination, Lilongwe in Malawi, to the deal. When tickets, using both airlines, are purchased together a free baggage allowance of 23 kg’s will apply to travelers, a feature otherwise not available for Fastjet passengers.
ProFlight services can be booked via Fastjet’s website www.fastjet.com and vice versa via www.proflight-zambia.com.
‘Fastjet has cemented its reputation as a reliable, affordable low-cost carrier, maintaining excellent punctuality and reliability records’ says Richard Bodin, Fastjet’s Chief Commercial Officer before adding ‘This collaboration with Proflight Zambia adds momentum to fastjet’s vision of democratising air travel on the African continent, while boosting growing trade relationships between Zambia and Tanzania. An efficient aviation sector that offers passengers affordable, safe and reliable flights to the destinations of their choice is sure to boost tourism and commerce in both countries’.
Captain Philip Lemba, Director of Government and Industry Affairs at ProFlight responded by saying: ‘The agreement signed with Fastjet is the latest step in our strategy to develop a network in the region, making air travel in Southern Africa more convenient and accessible. We look forward to being able to combine the service and value for money that the joint initiative brings’.
This first commercial agreement by Fastjet with another airline sees passengers able to book flights on a single ticket from any of ProFlight’s domestic Zambian destinations such as Livingstone, Ndola, Mfuwe, Chipata, Solwezi, Lower Zambezi, Mongu, Kasama and Mansa, and Lilongwe in Malawi, all via Lusaka – to Dar es Salaam, or via that city to Kilimanjaro, Mbeya and Mwanza in Tanzania, on Fastjet. Watch this space for breaking and regular aviation news from the Eastern African region.
