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Open Letter of Appreciation to FlyNamibia Airline
There is so much to celebrate and be grateful for as we enter the final few months of the year! Looking back, my year has been filled with exciting challenges, ups and downs, but here we are, and I have FlyNamibia to thank for some of the highlights of my year so far.
For example, I landed on the cover of the FlyNamibia Magazine March edition when we celebrated 33 years of independence. I am SO not over this. I am that girl who always has a flag of our country – if not the actual flag, then something that showcases our beautiful country, like socks or shoes that scream Namibia. I’m very patriotic like that!
I’m just a regular person – not a celebrity, not from a lineage of wealth or legacy, just a village girl from northern Namibia who grew up herding cattle. And my ordinary life has been featured on an airline’s magazine cover. How can I not be grateful? This happened in March 2023, but I’m still over the moon about it. It’s like I’m dreaming. Thank you so much to FlyNamibia for being so generous and inclusive to the Namibian people, myself included.
FlyNamibia regularly hosts competitions on social media. I entered their Easter scavenger hunt and ended up winning two return tickets to any FlyNamibia destination. I put these tickets to good use and flew home to Ondangwa, but really I could have flown anywhere, even Cape Town.
I used the first of my return flights to visit my mom and son who live almost 700 km away in northern Namibia, while I live in Windhoek. Flying with FlyNamibia reduced my travelling time from roughly 8 hours on the road to only 50 minutes on the plane. Normally I would have to accumulate a lot of leave days and money for fuel in order to go home, but for the first time I didn’t have to worry. Just packed my bag and headed to the airport, and off we went!
My second ticket was used to travel to the north again, this time to celebrate my mother’s first ever birthday party. She turned 63 years, but to us it feels like she has been granted 100 years. About 20 years ago my mother prepared us for her passing, as she was unsure whether she was going to live much longer. In light of this, I have been longing to do something really special for her. Those tickets I won made this occasion possible, and all I did was to enter a competition on Facebook and Instagram.
I just want to pour my heart out and thank FlyNamibia a trillion times. Words fail to express what these opportunities have afforded me. Please follow them on their social media pages and enter their competitions –you never know when it could be your lucky day!
Alina Ndapewa Inekel’Omuwa Kadhila
