Precision Air inaugurates Dar-Lusaka-Lumbumbashi route

AIR-FLIGHT Passengers destined for Lusaka in Zambia and Lumbumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Salaam will no longer have time to make long trip journey in order to arrive at their destination points. Such long trip journeys will now be stopped following the inauguration of the a direct connection air flight from Dar es Salaam to Lusaka and Dar Lumbumbashi in DRC respectively which was done yesterday by the Precision Air, Tanzania’s leading airline. Before the inauguration of this route, passengers coming and going out of Tanzania via JNIA from Zambia and DRC had to bear the brunt by digging dipper into their pockets to pay for extra connected flight charges in order to facilitate their journey by passing through Nairobi or Johannesburg in South Africa which they had to use between seven and eight hour. The Precision Air’s Managing Director and CEO, Alphonso Kioko said yesterday in Dar es Salaam that, the newly inaugurated routes is scheduled to open business opportunities for the two land locked countries to boost Tanzania’s economy. He said his company started to research on these routes two years ago when they had realized the existing problem facing the passengers from the two countries of the central Africa region who had been facing problem of direct flight from their mother countries to Tanzania. Before embarking on the task, they had contacted officials of the two countries for negotiations in order to combine the force into achieving their goals. The inaugural ceremony was attended by DRC ambassador and the Zambian High commissioner, Judith Kangoma Kapijimpanga thanked the airline for its innovative task it had shown for the aviation industry. She said noted the importance of the route as saying that it would increase the inter-Africa trade links between Tanzania and the landlocked central African countries. The inauguration of these routes will make the total number of four plus the two ones under which the airline operates. These routes are Johannesburg in South Africa and in Comoro Islands which were inaugurated early last year.