MAHE, WINDHOEK AND LUSAKA NONSTOP AMONG ADDITIONAL QATAR AIRWAYS AFRICA DESTINATIONS
(Posted 10th March 2016)
Qatar Airways will effective 12th of December this year resume a daily nonstop service from Doha to the Seychelles’ international airport on the main island of Mahe, to the expressed delight of the Seychelles tourism industry.
There was intense speculation when the airline withdrew the service over the reasons which led to the decision but here as elsewhere, all is well which ends well, as the return of this five star airline affirms.
Elsewhere in Africa will Qatar Airways, according to the airline’s Group CEO Mr. Akbar Al Baker, in September this year add a four times a week flight to Windhoek / Namibia. Qatar Airways will also offer a new three times a week nonstop service to Lusaka in Zambia from mid 2017 and add a combined Douala and Libreville flight to its growing network. These West African destinations will be served initially three times a week as of January 2017.
In North Africa will Marrakesh join the network.
Across Eastern Africa does Qatar Airways serve Entebbe and Kigali in a combined operation, flies double daily to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and also offer flights to Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. In the wider region is it Addis Ababa, the Eritrean capital Asmara and Djibouti which have been added in the more recent past.
While the airline continues to be interested in flying to Mombasa has the Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority until now failed to create a conducive environment for that to happen. This restricts the East African leisure destinations of the airline to Zanzibar for beach vacations and to Kilimanjaro for safaris at the expense of the Kenyan beach resorts.
