By Mara Online News writer
Tanzania’s once ailing national airline, Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL), is on the road to recovery after acquiring its 15th aircraft which landed on the island of Zanzibar yesterday.
Zanzibar President Dr Hussein Mwinyi led high-ranking government and the ruling CCM party officials and hundreds of onlookers who received the new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft when it landed at the Abeid Aman Karume International Airport from the United States.
ATCL currently boasts of a fleet of 16 aircrafts; one Dash 8-Q300, five Dash 8-Q400, four Airbus A220-300, two Boeing 737 Max 9, three Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and one Boeing 767-300F (Cargo Freighter).
Revival of the country’s national carrier began in earnest during the fifth phase administration of the late President John Magufuli following years of languishing in the intensive care unit due to financial difficulties and managerial problems.
The revival of the airline is good news to local and international potential investors who want to invest in key sectors of the national economy in a country which since the late 1980s embarked on the road to market-oriented policies.
In the past three years incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been wooing investors to come and launch projects to bolster the country’s economic growth.
With improved air transport, Tanzania has seen an influx of investors as well as foreign tourists coming to see what the country offers in terms wildlife, tourist attractions such as Mount Kilimanjaro and the pristine beaches of the Zanzibar archipelago.
Speaking after receiving the plane, President Mwinyi urged the ATCL management to increase international flights via Zanzibar in an effort to promote the booming tourist industry in the islands of Pemba and Unguja.
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