Posted by Egyptair is set to re-introduce its flights to Tanzania effective June 2009, nearly five years after the airline ceased its operations into Tanzania due to economic reasons.
The decision follows a state visit Vice-President Ali Mohamed Shein made to Egypt in November 2007 during which he struck an agreement with Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to resume flights to stimulate business and cultural relations between the two countries.
In an exclusive interview with APA Tuesday in Dar es Salaam, Salah Mansour, the Egyptair General Manager responsible for International Affairs, said his airline would introduce four brand new Boeing 737/800 aircraft to cater for the Dar-Cairo-Dar route four times a week instead of a weekly flight as before, connecting Dar-Cairo via Entebbe International Airport, Uganda.
Egyptair was established in 1932, making it the oldest airline in Africa and in the Middle East, but the airline went through harsh financial constraints that forced it to cancel its services in the country by the turn of this century.
The flights are slated for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and direct return flights to Cairo will cost $600 per passenger.
Source African Press Agency
