Dar es Salaam to Harare

fastjet inaugurated its Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) – Harare (Zimbabwe) service on 5 August as planned (See BTN 21 July).  The low-cost pan-African airline offers the only direct air link between the two counties.  It is the airline’s third international route.

Previously, those wishing to travel between the two capitals had to spend at least two days traversing approximately 1,500 miles by road, or they had to fly via Nairobi (Kenya) or Johannesburg (South Africa) involving lengthy layovers.

Planned originally for just Tuesday and Saturday return flights, the heavy bookings have resulted in a Thursday service being added.

No visas are required for citizens of the two countries for visits of less than 90 days.
 
“Affordable air travel is key to the growth of economies across Africa,” Ed Winter CEO said, “It is expensive and time-consuming to build roads to connect cities, inconvenient for people to travel over land, and if there are existing airlines flying any particular route, they still exclude the majority of a country’s citizens due to the high cost of those flights.”
 
fastjet operates internationally from Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg, Lusaka and now Harare, and has a significant Tanzanian domestic network including flights from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, Kilimanjaro and Mbeya.  www.fastjet.com

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