A new air company, Air Corridor, will start operations in Mozambique as from August, its commercial director, Cesar Mahumane, told AIM on Monday.
Air Corridor is based in the northern city of Nampula, and will start operations with just one aircraft, a Boeing 737-200, with 115 seats (98 in economy class, and 17 in business class).
The company will operate domestic flights between Nampula, Quelimane, Beira and Maputo. After this initial phase, it will also fly to Pemba, in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. In the longer term, the company hopes to acquire a second Boeing 737, and expand into the southern African regional market.
It also hopes to obtain small planes to fly to airstrips in Mozambican district capitals.
Air Corridor has an initial equity of five billion meticais (about 220,000 US dollars), and is owned by what Mahumane called "a group of Mozambican partners". It will employ 100 workers, mostly Mozambicans.
Air Corridor is competing against the state-owned airline LAM, which dominates Mozambican domestic routes. Mahumane said Air Corridor would rise to this challenge through the quality of service offered to passengers.
Fonte: AIM
