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Air Zimbabwe resumes domestic flights after being grounded last year
A recently acquired Embraer plane landed at Victoria Falls International Airport on Wednesday afternoon.
The jabs, made by China’s state-run Sinopharm, are a donation to Zimbabwe, which is due to buy another 600,000 of the vaccines for delivery early next month.
Ethiopian Airlines has bucked the trend, providing a model that others hope to emulate.
The airline blamed the disruptions on what it called operational limitations.
State-owned Air Zimbabwe's only serviceable plane was stopped from leaving Johannesburg last week after failing to pay for airport services.
Acsa said that Air Zimbabwe had not adhered to the cash basis terms for using its airports.
Oliver Matthews says it hasn't escaped the attention of locals that President Emmerson Mnangagwa himself doesn't fly Air Zimbabwe.
Emergency services scrambled when the pilots called in a distress call, but after circling in the air and assessing the plane, the pilots continued on to Harare where the aircraft landed safely.
The state-run company says its currently operating with just one plane which had to have an engine replaced.
Air Zimbabwe has been struggling with a $300 million debt, including to foreign creditors. Only three of its planes are operational.
Civil aviation authorities in SA and Zimbabwe are insisting that this now lifted-flight ban had nothing to do with politics.
SAA took a decision to cancel all flights between SA and Zimbabwe for the whole of Saturday, following the grounding of a flight in Zim.
The Zimbabwean first lady and her husband President Robert Mugabe landed in Harare early this morning aboard an Air Zimbabwe plane.
This follows a meeting between the minister and South Africa aviation agencies to discuss the grounding of an SAA aircraft at Harare International Airport.
In what now looks like a tit-for-tat move, the SAA plane was not allowed to leave Zimbabwe after South Africa grounded an Air Zimbabwe plane on Friday.
Zimbabwe's transport minister says neither airline has complied with regulations required by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
Like most state-owned companies in the southern African country, Air Zimbabwe has been making losses for years.
It’s understood the plane was a Boeing 737, one of just four of the airline’s planes that are still flying.
The company is struggling to revive its fortunes, and there were hopes that flights from Harare to London could soon be resumed.