Going back to its origins, once a first class airline, giving unequalled inflight service, competing with all the “Big Boys” in the airline business in vikings and viscounts, totally reliable, to a point where I — personally heard the captain giving his call-in on approaching Heathrow Airport in London to which the reply was “Welcome to Heathrow Central African Airways; on time as usual!” What an accolade!
BY NK,OUR READER
Through the Air Rhodesia days even until the early days of Air Zimbabwe it was in the premier league for reliability and service.
Sadly, now a pariah with which nobody wants to share.
Any wonder too, when — even if it had an honourable, capable chairman at the helm — the airline hasn’t a hope in hell of ever making money enough to keep going, with the country’s President Robert Mugabe treating it as his private and personal asset, to the inconvenience of fare paying passengers.
I wonder if the incoming chairman will have the guts to tell Mugabe that Air Zimbabwe aircraft are no longer available for his use unless he is prepared to pay the full charter price each time he wishes to make one of his jaunts abroad. Somehow, I don’t think so.
Alternatively, Mugabe could buy his own private jet, to which nobody would object. God knows! He has made enough money out of this country to be able to afford it.
