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According to the information published by the Daily Nation, the
Kenyan newspaper, Kenya Airways began flying to Dar es Salaam twice
daily from Thursday this week.
According to the newspaper, the statement issued by the management
of the airline said it would reduce the number of flights from Kenya to
Tanzania from 42 to 14 a week.
Tuesday this week, the airline was forced to retire ten of its senior pilots as part of the measures to cut down operation cost.
However, the newspaper did not state whether the decision by Kenya
Airways to send home ten pilots was taken after the TCAA imposed
restrictions on the number of flights.
“Kenya Airways wishes to notify its customers that it has reduced
its frequencies to Dar es Salaam from 42 to 14 per week and will now
only fly twice daily from March 19th 2015.
“This is as a result of a communication from the Tanzania Civil
Aviation Authority (TCAA) to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA)
reducing flight frequencies of Kenyan carriers into Tanzania,” The Daily
Nation quoted the statement issued by Kenya Airways.
According to the newspaper, officials from the Kenyan government
have reached out to their counterparts in Tanzania with a view to
resolving the impasse.
The airline is facing increased pressure from gulf airlines on its
African routes. Last year, it was also forced to stop flying to a number
of West African routes following the outbreak of Ebola in that region.
The decision by TCAA has come at times when Kenya and Tanzania are
still at loggerheads over ban that Kenya authorities imposed on
Tanzanian vehicles that were dropping or picking tourists at Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport.
Until now the ban has not been lifted, a decision that was
vehemently protested by Tanzania government. Many consider the
restrictions on flights imposed by TCAA as a revenge for Kenya’s
decision to ban shuttles from Tanzania from accessing Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport.
However, TCAA has defended its decision, attributing it to the
deadlock surrounding what is known in the aviation industry as Bilateral
Air Services Agreement (Basa) between Kenya and Tanzania.
Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BSA) is an agreement which two
nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services
between their territories
TCAA Acting Director General Charles Chacha told one of the
newspapers in Dar es Salaam mid this week that the two countries have
gone without such an aviation agreement for two years now.
According to Chacha, each country is supposed to adhere to the laws and principles operating in a given country.
There are reports that individuals engaging in flower business in
Arusha region might suffer as they depend much on KQ to transport their
products to the outside world, let alone the transport services offered
by the airline to Tanzanians.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
TOA MAONI YAKO HAPO CHINI KUHUSU HABARI HII
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