Fastjet,
Africa’s first pan African low cost carrier, is pleased to announce the
new www.fastjet.com website is now live and tickets are on sale ahead of
the airline’s first flight later this month.
Tickets
for domestic routes in Tanzania including Dar es Salaam - Kilimanjaro
and Dar es Salaam - Mwanza went on sale yesterday through the Company’s
offices and travel agents. On-line internet booking is available from
this morning with payment options available through fastjet offices,
travel agents and bank acount. Fastjet will be introducing credit card
and further innovative payment options including M-Pesa and Airtel Money
over the coming months
fastjet’s CEO Ed Winter said:
“We have
had an great response to our first tickets going on sale with over 100
seats sold within the first two hours for flights departing from the
29th November. Everyone at Fastjet is really excited about bringing low
cost air travel to the people of Africa and with prices starting at
US$20 one-way excluding taxes and charges, we are making flying an
affordable option for more Tanzanians than ever before.”
Fastjet Executive Chairman David Lenigas added:
“The sale
of the first tickets for fastjet anywhere in the world is a momentous
day for the Company and the culmination of six months of hard work from
the fastjet team. Our first three Airbus A319s will be arriving in
Tanzania shortly and we are very much looking forward to providing
reliable airline services to an international standard for the people of
Africa. “The fastjet launch in Tanzania will be the start of what the
Company believes will be a truly great pan African low cost airline.
Over time, we plan to have fastjet flying the Continent of Africa from
north to south and east to west.”
Fly540
flights in Ghana, Angola, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire can still be
booked through the www.fly540africa.com website and Kenya through the
www.fly540.com website. Strong growth has been recorded in the Angola
and Ghana hubs in the last few weeks as the fastjet yield management
team refine pricing and route scheduling in these areas. This
performance will be demonstrated in the next month passenger statistics
reporting. Passenger numbers for the month of October stood at 51,015,
up 26.6% on the same month last year.
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