PRECISION AIR RELAUNCHES TABORA FLIGHTS
(Posted 11th May 2015)
Following work carried out at Tabora airport by the Tanzania Airport Authority has Precision Air announced the return to this destination as of next Friday. Tabora, a town in Western / Central Tanzania, now has a hard surface (tarmac) runway of 6.211 feet or 1.893 metres length and a gravel runway of 5.100 feet length or 1.555 metres. The airline will use one of their ATR 42 aircraft to serve the route, which was dropped by Precision in 2009 over concerns about the state of the main runway. Flights will operate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, for the time being.
The routing of the service will be from Dar es Salaam nonstop to Tabora (IATA: TBO / ICAO: HTTB) but route via Kigoma (IATA: TKQ / ICAO: HTKA) on the way back to Dar es Salaam. Traffic can be uplifted between Tabora and Kigoma it is understood.
Precision Air, Tanzania’s only publicly quote airline on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, presently operates a fleet exclusively composed of French built ATR aircraft comprising five ATR 42 and five ATR 72 types. Besides the new route does Precision Air presently serve Mwanza, Zanzibar, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Bukoba, Mtwara and notably Nairobi, the latter being the presently only regional destination.
