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WHat is the state of play with our presence in Dodoma? Magafuli has made the decision that Domoma will be unquestionalby the political centre of Tanzania and so far 16 ministires, the Prime Ministers office and various regulatory bodies have been moveed out of Dar to Dodoma. The President's Office will follow early next year while around 60 foreign embassies will follow. As a result Dodoma is subject to a massive redevelopment effort and supporting plan which is likely to grow the city three-fold. Dodoma airport has been upgraded and can operate 24 hours a day but can only handle aircraft in the 70-90 pax range; moreover, it is slap bang in the middle of a major redevelopment area and plans are for a new airport to be built 10 km north of the city to full international standards. A new high speed ( for Africa = 160 km/hour) is currenty being built from Dar with modern carriage stock and engines envisaged and this will take 3 hours/4 hours so competitive with air travel given the congestion making the trip from DAR airport to the CBD and The Peninsular a major logistic effort. Notwithstanding given the likely high volumes of pax needing to travel between DAR and Dodoma, anf the limitation on aircraft size, flight load sshould be consistently high so worth having a reasonable presence
Rufiji, given what has happened with Kigoma there is no hope for Dodoma, or elsewhere in Tanzania IMHO, existing destinations, and perhaps ZNZ as this was previously okay, and nothing else. I also don't see the ATR being approved either. https://atcnews.org/2018/05/31/tanzanian-aviation-authorities-tell-fastjet-that-kigoma-is-a-no-go-zone-for-them/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Yes, you and Fastjetcrazy are right. I am afraid this attitude is reflective of a wider move under the current TZ government to favour disproportionately local interests
We have Wolfgang onside, I spoke with him couple days ago , his post is the tip of the iceberg, he will work on exposing TCAA, however their hands are tied from the corruption from above, the environment has changed dramatically from when Fjet arrived to the current status quo, Alarmingly they are working hard to block our airline from being called a low cost carrier (allegedly)
We have Wolfgang onside, I spoke with him couple days ago , his post is the tip of the iceberg, he will work on exposing TCAA, however their hands are tied from the corruption from above, the environment has changed dramatically from when Fjet arrived to the current status quo, Alarmingly they are working hard to block our airline from being called a low cost carrier (allegedly)