Africa has currently seen the launch of new low cost airlines such as Fastjet which has recently commenced flights between Dar es Salaam and Harare. Since low cost routes opened in Africa, prices have dropped by around 40%. According to a study by Intervistas passenger number have risen by almost half. However some low cost airlines say in order to protect international state owned airlines governments are blocking competitors.
To assist us on this:
• Richard Bodin is fastjet’s Chief Commercial Officer
• Chris Zweigenthal, Executive Committee Airlines Association of Southern Africa
• Guy Leach. Editor of Flight.com,
• Earlier on I spoke to Linden Burns Managing Director of Plane Talking...He suggested categories for low cost airlines.
