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AIRPORTS
MARRAKECH MENARA AIRPORT, MOROCCO
TANZANIAN AIRPORT

OPENING POINT CAMERA

TO REGISTER

state-of-the-art
Aterminal at Tanzania’s

Julius Nyerere International
Airport was opened recently

to handle international flights

and is part of the country’s bid

to position itself as a regional

aviation hub.
President John Magufuli

officiated at the opening of the

(US) $282 million facility, which
is expected to serve up to six
million passengers per year.
The president said the con-

struction of the terminal had
been done using local funding.
He said the Ministry of Works,

Transport and Communication
and the Tanzania National the relaunch of long-haul flights to Mumbai, India by the national

Roads Agency should make sure the new terminal was well main- carrier Air Tanzania.
tained because it was the country’s image for foreign visitors using The Mumbai route heralded the airline’s foray into the Asian market. Other
the airport. planned routes are Bangkok, Thailand, and the Chinese city of Guangzhou.
The airport’s Terminal I has an annual capacity of 500,000 pas- Air Tanzania spokesperson Josephat Kagirwa they are planning
sengers while Terminal II has a 1.5 million-passenger capacity. At flights to London, Lagos in Nigeria and Accra, Ghana.

full capacity, the three terminals will make Julius Miserere Interna- The airline currently operates 10 domestic routes, with
tional Airport one of the busiest hubs in Africa. regular flights to Harare (Zimbabwe), Bujumbura (Burundi),

According to Tanzania’s Transport Minister Isaack Kamwelwe, the Entebbe (Uganda), Moroni (Comoro Islands) and Johannesburg
new terminal will also allow increased freight volumes, signalling (South Africa).

an increase in revenue collection. Its current fleet comprises a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet, two

JNIA is the largest of Tanzania’s three international airports. The Airbus A200-300s, three Bombardier Q400s, one Fokker50, and

others are Kilimanjaro International Airport in the north and Zanzi- one Fokker28.

bar International Airport. Air Tanzania has ramped up competition for other East African

A modernisation programme for at least three more airports - carriers like Kenya Airways and RwandAir, with Uganda Airlines
Dodoma, Songwe and Chato - is being implemented as part of a taking to the skies later this month.
plan to revamp the country’s aviation sector. The struggling Kenya Airways is set to be nationalised by parlia-

The inauguration of Terminal III at JNIA came two weeks after mentary order as part of a wider revival strategy. Q

AIRLINES
EGYPTAIR RECEIVES
DREAMLINER
that will witness by the end of 2020 of flying a distance ranging between

the joining of 33 new jets including six 14,800 and 15,700 km non-stop with
gyptAir will receive in mid-Au- Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, 12 jets of "dispatch reliability" hitting 99 percent.

Egust the sixth and last Boeing the Airbus A220-300 model and 15 of It was designed to be 20 percent more

787-9 Dreamliner as part of a deal to Airbus A320neo family. fuel-efficient than its counterparts in

purchase six jets of the same model. The newly-received Boeing 787-9 commercial aircraft.

Sources at the Egyptian flagship airline Dreamliners are set to operate on The B787-9 Dreamliner has 309 seats

said that the company has already EgyptAir's routes to Shanghai, Tokyo, divided into 30 Super Diamond fully flat THE DESTINATION

received five aircraft of the same model New York and Bangkok. business class seats and 279 seats in the

in pursuit of developing its fleet, which The B787-9 Dreamliner is capable economy class. Q

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