Kuna huyu naye ajipange zanzibar imefungua uwanja tayari 4 major airlines zimeonyesha nia ya kutua zanzibar!
KLM
Lufthansa
Egyptair
Emirates
KLM and Lufthansa to BOTH begin Zanzibar; fast-growing from Europe
KLM is to begin Zanzibar on 10 December 2020, followed by Lufthansa from Frankfurt on 31 March. Zanzibar will be KLM’s sixth destination in East Africa after Dar Es Salaam, Entebbe, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, and Nairobi. And it will be Lufthansa’s fourth, after Addis Ababa and Nairobi and, also coming, Mombasa.
KLM and Lufthansa are
both to begin Zanzibar, Tanzania, and both carriers will have direct competition.
KLM will start on 10 December, with a twice-weekly service using 294-seat B787-9s. It’ll route
Amsterdam – Zanzibar – Dar Es Salaam – Amsterdam.
Lufthansa, meanwhile, will launch Frankfurt – Zanzibar on 31 March. Its twice-weekly offering by A330-300s will be via Mombasa – also new – in both directions.
KLM’s announcement builds on Cairo, Cork, and Southampton so far starting/restarting in 2020. These will be joined by
Poznan from 25 October and Riyadh from 7 December. Austin is now expected to begin in 2021.
Lufthansa’s new Frankfurt – Mombasa – Zanzibar will be joined in S21 by 13 short-haul and similarly very outbound leisure services.
This includes six new routes to Greece.
Lufthansa is focusing more than ever on the local German market, hardly surprising at the moment. Indeed, in 2020 it has started
Gran Canaria, Rhodes, and
Tenerife South from Frankfurt.
| Routing… | Start date | Weekly frequency | Direct competition |
|---|
| Amsterdam – Zanzibar* | 10 December | 2 | TUI (1)*** |
| Frankfurt – Zanzibar** | 31 March | 2 | Condor (2)*** |
| * Continuing to Dar Es Salaam before returning to Amsterdam. ** Via Mombasa in both directions. *** Both from 23 December. | | | |
KLM and Lufthansa latest to Zanzibar; market has grown strongly
Europe – Zanzibar has grown well in recent years, with 367,000 seats recorded in 2019. This was by up 148%, or 219,000, over 2015.
Neos was the largest European operator to the Tanzanian island, with 107,000 seats. The second was Turkish Airlines, which began Zanzibar in 2016; this airline accounts for most of the recent growth.
Last year we analysed Turkish Airlines and the MEB3’s total network distribution. Turkish Airlines had by far the most weekly frequencies to/from Africa.
Zanzibar was linked to 12 European airports in 2019, so pre-coronavirus. Milan Malpensa was by far the top with three in ten seats.
Not surprisingly, Italy was the leading country for non-stop service to Zanzibar, with four Italian airports having just under half of all seats. Germany was third after Turkey.
KLM will begin Zanzibar in December 2020 and Lufthansa in March 2021. Source: OAG Schedules Analyser.
Zanzibar – Europe; sixth freedoms also key
Aside from non-stops, discussed above, sixth freedom operators were also key to Europe. In particular, Ethiopian Airlines, flydubai (and also with Emirates to Europe), Qatar Airways, and Turkish Airlines.
In the randomly chosen week beginning 16 December 2019, Ethiopian had a daily service using a hodgepodge of aircraft: A350-900s, B737-800s, B777-200LRs, and B787-8s and -9s. Its A350s were used most and they routed via Kilimanjaro in both directions.
We explored Ethiopian’s network in February.
flydubai, meanwhile, had a 14-weekly service. Of these, seven terminated in Zanzibar, while the other half continued to Dar Es Salaam and back via Zanzibar.
We looked at flydubai’s closer-than-ever relationship with Emirates earlier this year.
Across all carriers, the largest unserved European markets were Paris, London, Vienna,
Munich, and Copenhagen, with
Paris by far number-one.
Source: OAG Mapper.
KLM and Lufthansa to BOTH begin Zanzibar; fast-growing from Europe
EgyptAir Set to Launch Direct Flights to Zanzibar
21 APRIL 2018
Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
By Abdallah Msuya
EGYPTIAN Airline, Egyptair, is set to start direct flights from Cairo to Zanzibar, a move which is expected to boost the Isles tourism sector and enhance business between the two countries.
Egyptair vice president, Mr Mohamed Alabbady confirmed his carrier's intention to launch a direct scheduled flight between Cairo International Airport and Abeid Amani Karume International Airport in the near future when he paid a courtesy call on President Ali Mohamed Shein, yesterday.
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