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The President spoke at the welcoming ceremony of the highly anticipated first Dreamliner aircraft from Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Salaam, where he landed around 5 pm at night after a direct flight from Seattle, USA.
"We have already made an advance payment on the second Dreamliner and its construction is underway … we expect it to arrive in January 2020," said Magufuli
. $ 224.6 million (more than $ 500 billion), is one of seven aircraft purchased by the government on behalf of ATCL and the fourth to have already arrived in the country.
Three Canadian Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft are already sailing It is expected that other Q400 aircraft and at least two 130-passenger Bombardier CS300 airliners will arrive in November of this year.
The President described the event yesterday as being a milestone in the government's fifth phase efforts to revive the state-owned airline, which was ill, and allow it to compete in the local and international aviation industries.
"These planes will help attract more tourists to Tanzania. "Most tourists prefer air transport, and we decided as a government to invest heavily in this sector."
The Minister of Works, Transport and Communication, Eng. Isack Kamwelwe, said the newly arrived Dreamliner will begin its international flights to Mumbai, India, from early September
"All seven planes we have purchased are state owned, so ATCL ATC will travel three times a week to Bujumbura, Burundi via Kigoma, and four times a week to Entebbe, Uganda via Kilimanjaro, to fill a critical gap in regional transport.
The company Airline currently serves Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Mbeya, Mtwara, Mwanza, Tabora and Moroni in the Comoros, thereby increasing its one-to-two digit market share in less than two years despite the that the number of seats won by competing airlines has decreased
The welcome ceremony yesterday for the new Dreamliner was also attended by senior leaders from the public and private sector, whose Vice-President Samia Suluhu, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, Chief of the Defense Forces (CDF), General Venance Mabeyo, Chief Ambassador (CS), Ambassador John Kijazi, and President of Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), Dr. Reginald Mengi.
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