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Air Tanzania’s Covid-19 pandemic response
The global air industry has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the locking of international borders, but challenging times call for creative solutions. Air Tanzania has adapted to the situation and has found new ways to serve its customers and communities in Tanzania. We have been working non-stop to arrange cargo-only flight options for our customers, repatriation flights to return Tanzanian citizens stranded abroad by lockdown measures and to return with an ever-growing schedule of domestic flights to support our people and keep them connected. Here Twiga takes a closer look at how Air Tanzania has adapted to the crisis.
REPATRIATION FLIGHTS During the Covid-19 outbreak, Air Tanzania has been called on to carry out the government’s repatriation policy and bring back stranded Tanzanian nationals from Mumbai on two occasions.
We worked in collaboration with the Honourable High Commissioner of India to Tanzania Sanjiv Kohli to organise the flights and get all the passengers safely back to Julius Nyerere Airport and their families.
After returning 249 passengers in May, Air Tanzania again sent on June 15 its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, guided by Chief Pilot Raymond Musingi, to Mumbai to pick up another 202 Tanzanian nationals stuck in India.
Air Tanzania also ran three charter repatriation in May to the Comoros to return our brothers stuck here in Tanzania to their homes and families. In total, 364 passengers were flown home over the three flights.
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