Air Zimbabwe Introduction

Air Zimbabwe is the largest passenger carrier of  Zimbabwe. Air Zimbabwe started in 1980 with four B707 aircrafts and has one of the most modern fleets in Africa today. not only Air Zimbabwe has a state of the art engineering base which is capable of maintaining its own aircrafts but it also maintains and helps other Southern African airlines as well, Air Zimbabwe is the Envy of Zimbabwe.

History Of Air Zimbabwe

Air Zimbabwe was established on 1^st of September in 1967 and was called Air Rhodesia after The Central African Airways Corporation was dissolved. It became Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia in the June of 1979 and in the April of 1980, when the Republic of Zimbabwe was formed it finally became Air Zimbabwe. Air Zimbabwe began flight services on the 2^nd of April in 1980 to London Gatwick Airport in UK. The freight airline Affretair was taken over by Air Zimbabwe in 1983 and now Air Zimbabwe is a corporation owned by the government.

Air Zimbabwe services

A Harare to Beijing service was started in November of 2004 by Air Zimbabwe and it flies via Singapore twice weekly. Air Zimbabwe has increased its domestic and international fares between 200% and 500% in an apparent attempt to provide passengers better services and more benefits as recession has also aeffected Air Zimbabwe being one of the major reasons as the need to pay for fuel, spare parts, and catering with foreign currency, which is in short supply due to the recession. In response to British Airways announcement that it would no longer fly directly to Harare, Air Zimbabwe has increased the number of flight's on its Harare to London Gatwick route from October 2007 to five flights a week to accomudate and help out the passengers in there travel. Air Zimbabwe  flights provides cheap flights and cheap deals from Gatwick to Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria falls on Air Zimbabwe. 

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Air Zimbabwe Fleet

The initial fleet of the Boeing 720 aircrafts used by The Air Rhodesia were replaced by five of the Boeing 707's purchased from Lufthansa. These 707's were put into the Vickers Viscount fleet, with the purchase of two Viscounts from the UK operator Dan Air added to it. In the middle of 1980's, to enhance regional routes, three more Boeing 737 aircrafts were ordered from Boeing by Auir Zimbabwe. The long haul operations were the Boeing 707's domain in the begining but were gradually taken out and replaced with two Boeing 767 aircrafts within the early and mid 1990's. from the air force in the 1980's, a BAe 146 (British Aerospace) was added to the Air Zimbabwe fleet. Proveing unsuitable towards the hot and high conditions in Zimbabwe, Fokker 50's were returned to the lessor which were leased and used from 1995. Also the BAe 146 was grounded. The airline leased two MA-60 (turboprops) from China in 2005, supplemented by a third donated example in 2006 for domestic and short regional route operations. In 2006, It was announced that the government has ordered 5 Ilyushin Il-96 aircrafts, in which 2 were passenger and 3 were the freight versions, to replace the old 767's from Russia. but unfortunatly the order was cancelled.