Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:05:32 +0000 LET’S PROCEED WITH ZAMBIA AIRWAYS Dear Editor, AS others have already said, nothing is for free. Ethiopian Airlines is not a charitable organisation. There must be a business case. Secondly we don’t have capital and technical capabilities to restart QZ. Ethiopian Airlines does and that costs money. Thirdly, few businesses generate profits in the first three years. Let’s learn to be patient. Fourthly, airline business in Zambia is worth $1.5b per annum. Why do we want to let foreign airlines get all this just because we have cholera? That’s retrospective thinking. Fifthly, an airline is like any infrastructure – you’re building roads in the air into your country. Profits to economy may also be indirect. One of the reasons SAA isn’t liquidated is that it participates in bringing 10 million visitors to RSA per year with dollars to spend! Sixthly JV Agreement can be terminated any time if not […]
