According to the news that has been received from Kigali Rwanda reveal that Rwanda Air which is the country’s airline is in preparations to see to it that it adds 4 more flights on it route to Johannesburg so that the Rwanda flights can fly into South Africa on a daily basis come June 10th 2012 which is next month. Although the South African Airways has not been flying to Rwanda for some time, it resumed its flights to Kigali in the early months of this year and also opened routes to Bujumbura in Burundi which is Rwanda’s neighbor and fly in 3 times in a week on days that Rwanda Air does not fly into South Africa.
The increase on the number of flights is as a result of increasing demand on the route between South Africa and Rwanda and also to improve on the connection out of Kigali to Brazzaville, Libreville and Lagos in West Africa, to Dubai where it flies 6 times in a week now and all around the Eastern African countries. This improvement is most likely to bring about tremendous improvement in the Rwanda tourism sector since the tourists will have more opportunities of flying into Rwanda any day of the week, marketing Rwanda’s tourists attractions like the wildlife, the cultural site among others will be very easy then.
there are now 4 B737 in the fleet, two new B737-800 brought in 2011 along side the two leased B737-500 and 1 Bombardier Dash 8-100 which the aviation boy uses for domestic and very short routes with in the area. One can now say that Rwanda airline is in the last stages of network and regular expansion planning will come in after the additional aircraft has been delivered in Q4 of this year. Currently, Rwanda Air has two brand new Bombardier CRJ900 jets which are on order and they will be receiving their Q400 turboprop aircraft on Monday but is at the moment on an Africa demonstration tour. Rwanda may also take advantage of the presence of very senior Bombardier staff in Kigali to proceed with their negotiations on the purchase of one or more new larger turboprop aircraft which they intend to use to work in areas like the Kamembe which get a lot of tourists from Congo, and Kigali but also from Entebbe as well as Bujumbura.
Gorilla safari news
