Prime

Air Tanzania secures Gatwick landing slots

Air Tanzania has secured three landing slots at London’s Gatwick Airport. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  Bob Karashani

Reporter in Dar es Salaam

Nation Media Group

Air Tanzania this week moved a step closer to launching direct flights to Britain after securing three landing slots at London’s Gatwick Airport.

The route from Dar es Salaam’s Julius Nyerere International Airport to Gatwick via Kilimanjaro International Airport in the north of the country will be the national carrier’s first foray into Europe.

Be the First to Know

Get the stories shaping East Africa — delivered straight to your inbox

Conflict

  1. Explainer: Why new war in Ethiopia’s Tigray threatens to trigger wider conflict

  2. Ethiopia, Sudan junta bicker again over RSF support claims

  3. East Africa’s oil rivalry is missing the bigger energy security question

  4. PRIME Why US proposal to expand Sudan arms embargo is stirring debate

Latest

  1. Mt Kilimanjaro

    PRIME Another fire breaks out on Mt Kilimanjaro

  2. PRIME Tanzania lifts special visa clearance for Nigerian travellers

  3. Congo’s Ebola infections cross 8,000, government says

  4. PRIME Uganda’s Idi Amin and the East African act UNGA New York will never forget

In the headlines

View All