AIR ZIMBABWE
Located at Harare International Airport, Air Zimbabwe is the successor to Air Zimbabwe – Rhodesia which in turn was the successor to Air Rhodesia. Privatised in 1997 Air Zimbabwe is the country’s largest passenger carrier. It also carries cargo.
Air Zimbabwe operates a large engineering maintenance base, one of the biggest in Africa. It has 1300 employees and two subsidiary companies –National Handling Services [Pvt] Ltd, which specialises in ground handling, and Galileo [Zimbabwe], which provides reservations facilities to Travel agents in the country.
The airline currently serves five regional destinations-Nairobi, Lilongwe, Blantyre, Lusaka, Johannesburg and Mauritius, three domestic-Harare,Bulawayo and Victoria Falls as well as one international destination-London. Air Zimbabwe’s busiest routes are Harare-London and Harare-Johannesburg.
As a growing airline, Air Zimbabwe is on the lookout for opportunities to expand its markets. This involves entering into alliances /partnerships with other airlines. Currently, the airline has a code-share agreement with Air Malawi, pro-rate agreements with such airlines as Delta, Virgin, American Airlines and Continental and interline agreements with 150 operators.
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