Fastjet suspends two JNB services

FASTJET indefinitely
suspended its
Johannesburg-Zanzibar
and Johannesburg-Dar es
Salaam services earlier
this month.
“As of January 16,
2017, fastjet will suspend
its Dar es Salaam and
Zanzibar flights into
and outbound from
Johannesburg,” a fastjet
spokesperson said.
The airline could not
provide details as to
when the flights would be
re-introduced.
According to its
spokesperson, the
suspension of the two
routes is in line with the
airline’s stabilisation plan.
Earlier this month
the airline announced
that Solenta Aviation,
a Johannesburg-based
commercial aviation
group, would acquire a
28% stake in the LCC.
Fastjet will wet lease
three of Solenta’s
Embraer 145s and
will benefit from other
services over the next
five years to the value
of $19,2m (R260m).
This will provide the
airline with the aircraft,
crew, maintenance and
insurance.
Solenta’s Embraer 145s
will replace fastjet’s
Airbus A319s on its
shorter routes but it has
not released details on
which routes the new
aircraft will operate.
Nico Bezuidenhout, ceo
of fastjet, told TNW the
airline needed to consider
matching the aircraft with
demand and growing
thinner routes into higher
volume network points.