For quite a while I've been intrigued by Air Tanzania's Boeing 787. The airline previously only flew turboprops, but last July they took delivery of a Boeing 787-8. Yes, just one of them, and that's all they had on order at the time (in the meantime they've ordered a second one, and have also taken…
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Lucky- Will the BOM flight replace the JNB flight? The schedule you posted don’t appear to sync up - arrive from JNB at 635pm but depart to BOM at 6pm (at least for Weds, Fri, & Sun).
Seams more realistic that this happens then thst the SAS-pilots bid in the strike in Scandinavia will go thrue
@ Bob -- I'm as confused as you are. They do have a second 787 on the way, so maybe that's the plan? The BOM flight is listed as being operated by a turboprop right now, which is obviously wrong. So not sure if their plan is to have two 787s at that point, or if their scheduling department is just really, really bad.
@ SK -- Nope, but I'm curious as well. Wonder if they have ex-pat pilots, or where they had their 787 pilots trained.
Wait a minute. I though these two destinations are in reach on A220s, while BOO,CAN,LON(all of which they expressed interest into) need that 787. It seems bizarre to me that the 2 shorter ones are flown first, in 787.
Also want to point out that the A220 even has lower per-seat operating costs than the 787 on shorter legs like to JNB. If I we're AT I would just focus on expanding affordable East African flights with the A220 and expanding to long haul once they've gained a decent regional network.
Your friends at TC have used a flip-flop photo of the Gateway with Taj Hotel in background.
Shame on them.
You might appreciate that the swahili caption on the route announcement "Hatuna utani" means "We're not joking (/teasing)". "Tunamaanisha" means something like "we're serious/ meaningful"
@X: I somehow doubt that Air Tanzania expressed interest to fly to BOO, which is Bodo, Norway...
That is total envy. You want to suggest that they would have you as their flight advisor. We are doing it out our pocket and not your strings attached loans. I thought you would have congratulated us. And that we used to have turboprops translates that we can't afford the other type. No Western country can really truly help Africa.
its possible that they will start with the 787 on the JNB route and eventually switch to the A220's once the Mumbai route has been launched.