Air Tanzania is a fascinating little airline. Up until about a year ago they had a single regional jet and four turboprops. However, in the past year they've taken delivery of one Boeing 787-8 and two Airbus A220-300s. With these planes they've launched flights to Johannesburg and Mumbai, in June and July of 2019, respectively.…
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Lol well I guess SAA has a an A220 now, but perhaps they should use it for domestic routes only.
SAA has been way too close to bankruptcy for ages now, so of course they need every penny they can get. Hopefully this will be resolved soon
The BBC is saying it’s because the Tanzanian govt owes money to farmer whose land was seized?
A loan BY Air Tanzania TO South African ? Or perhaps the other way round, seems more likely, as the cause for impounding Air Tanzania's aircraft ?
You owe me a $1,000 and you have a problem.
You owe me $4.1 million, then I have a problem.
I am scheduled to fly their A220 from LUN-DAR in two weeks. I hope this flight is still operating...
Despite the close Government relations, you mean this couldn't have been resolved behind close doors? It's almost as if SA couldn't wait to have Air Tanzania start operating to have the plane impounded. Meanwhile SAA is enjoying the freedom of flying into DAR twice daily. Very Sad!
@RAY
For clarity, SAA didn't impound the plane and will not be rewarded in any form. The plane was impounded presumably by the airport authorities in accordance with law and requested from the courts.
@Russell
No it couldn't be resolved as this has been tried many times and the TZ governement decided to stop payments in 2014. The incompetent TZ government chose to ignore requests and international law resulting in an aircraft being impounded and quite rightly so.
Jeune Afrique confirms the plane was seized following a court decision in the lawsuit against the Tanzanian government by a farmer whose land was nationalized in the 1980’s: https://www.jeuneafrique.com/820127/economie/afrique-du-sud-un-airbus-dair-tanzania-saisi-pour-des-impayes/
You need to understand a court order has to be honored, issue of relationship does not pave room for government authorities to disregard lawful order .
Wow I wish we could read that article in English.
A landowner had his land seized by the Tanzanian government in the 1980’s, went to South Africa, sued Tanzania there, and as compensation the South African court ruled the guy could impound one of their planes now! That’s gotta be a story for the ages!
Better get the story right! It is an issue with one Boer farmer who had his property nationalized in Tanzania. Anyway, the SA Court resolved the issue in Tanzania favour and the plane flew back to Tanzania about two days ago.