Tanzania: ATCL plan for the new Dreamliner jet

Dar es Salaam – Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) will deploy the newly delivered Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on its Dar es Salaam-Kilimanjaro route as it will finalize preparations for launching flights International.

"The Dreamliner should start flying in three weeks, it will start flying between Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro before taking the plane to India and we are getting ready to conquer d & # 39; other markets, such as China, "said Ladislaus Matindi, general manager of ATCL. He was declared at the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) on Wednesday, 11 July.

This comes at a time when some analysts believe that the country is injecting billions of dollars of public money into the purchase of expensive aircraft to revive ATCL without a comprehensive business plan.

ATCL issued a call for tenders in July 2017 inviting companies to prepare a "full five-year business plan" within 30 days.

million. Matindi said that last July, ATCL was working with the help of an interim business plan.

A year later, Mr. Matindi stated on the grounds of the DITF that the airline had four newly purchased aircraft and planned to open five new domestic routes in the area. ATCL currently operates on ten routes across Tanzania and Comoros.

Receiving the first of two Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner 262 seats that will be operated by ATCL, President John Magufuli revealed on Sunday the three reasons his government decided to inject trillions of public funds into the revival of the national airline

Revealing that the decision to revive ATCL was motivated by the need to boost Tanzania's reputation, Dr. Magufuli said: in natural resources to have no aircraft of its own . We wanted to make that shame disappear! The second reason was to ensure that it brings ATCL closer to Tanzanians.

"Before shipping the Bombardier Q400, it was expensive to fly to destinations like Bukoba … It took at least Sh 1 million for the return ticket to Bukoba … but with the ATCL bomber, it now costs 400,000 shillings, "Dr. Magufuli said just before the plane hit Tanzanian soil.The president said Tanzanian tourism should be boosted

Last year, he said, Tanzania received only 1.3 million tourists despite its many attractions.

"We did an analysis and determined that the countries the greatest number of tourists", said Dr. Magufuli, giving examples of Egypt, Morocco and South Africa receiving respectively 10.1 million, 12 million and 10.2 million tourists respectively.