Below is a statement from Wilderness Safaris in response to an article printed in Zimbabwe’s Newsday.
On August 28, a headline entitled “Wilderness Safaris Zim seek airline licence”, erroneously created the perception that Wilderness Safaris Zimbabwe seeks to enter the commercial scheduled airline business in Zimbabwe and internationally.
Our safari operations in camps in remote locations such as Hwange and Mana Pools National Parks require that we are able to access these camps in a range of light aircraft. In this way we are able to provide a seamless service to our guests in transferring them between international airports such as Victoria Falls, and our camps. In order to do this we operate our own flying business known as Wilderness Air.
The Civil Aviation Authority and Ministry of Transport require that Wilderness Air holds a valid Air Service Permit in order to operate on an air operators certificate. The story reported in Newsday has resulted from our application to renew this permit, which required a public advertisement in a local newspaper.
We are pleased to confirm that this application for non-scheduled domestic, regional and international flights on the above-mentioned light aircraft has been approved and that Wilderness Air flights to our camps will continue as before.
On August 28, a headline entitled “Wilderness Safaris Zim seek airline licence”, erroneously created the perception that Wilderness Safaris Zimbabwe seeks to enter the commercial scheduled airline business in Zimbabwe and internationally.
Our safari operations in camps in remote locations such as Hwange and Mana Pools National Parks require that we are able to access these camps in a range of light aircraft. In this way we are able to provide a seamless service to our guests in transferring them between international airports such as Victoria Falls, and our camps. In order to do this we operate our own flying business known as Wilderness Air.
The Civil Aviation Authority and Ministry of Transport require that Wilderness Air holds a valid Air Service Permit in order to operate on an air operators certificate. The story reported in Newsday has resulted from our application to renew this permit, which required a public advertisement in a local newspaper.
We are pleased to confirm that this application for non-scheduled domestic, regional and international flights on the above-mentioned light aircraft has been approved and that Wilderness Air flights to our camps will continue as before.
