Tag: Fastjet
World Travel Awards 2019: Complete list of winners for Africa & the Indian Ocean
Alain St.Ange- June 4, 2019 02:16The World Travel Awards took place in Mauritius. Businesses from all over Africa were competing to be the best of the best. This is the 26th Wrld Tavel Awards organized ... Read More
Tanzania Fastjet pleading with Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 27, 2018 07:44Tanzania based and grounded Fastjet wants to resume operation. Yesterday Chairperson Lawrence Masha urged the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) to allow the airline to resume flights. Read More
Suspended! Fastjet airline services in Tanzania
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- December 18, 2018 01:59Fastjet airline officials said late last week that its flights would be canceled through the end of January. Read More
Fastjet granted permission to launch international flights
editor- June 17, 2013 08:15Fastjet, the African budget airline, has been granted permission to launch international flights from its hub in Tanzania. Read More
FastJet turmoil costs Board Chairman his position
editor- June 12, 2013 04:49(eTN) - Word from the UK has it that things on the FastJet board moved fast and furious, following a devastating report by auditors KPMG over a US$56 million loss, ... Read More
Fastjet takes aim at its own auditors
editor- June 6, 2013 03:44(eTN) - It took just a few hours for FastJet to take aim at their own auditors, KPMG, which in their report for the period of 18 months ending December ... Read More
Fastjet reports USD56 million loss
editor- June 5, 2013 04:49(eTN) - Disquieting news is making the rounds in East Africa’s aviation observer circles that FastJet has reportedly suffered a massive US$56 million loss for their financial year, wiping out ... Read More
Fly 540 and FastJet set to drop legal cases through negotiated agreement
editor- April 24, 2013 02:35(eTN) - Fly 540 and FastJet have dropped their mutual court action, which reflected widely different understandings and perceptions on the state of their agreements of cooperation and sale of ... Read More
FastJet’s courtship for Jetlink threatened by winding up petition
editor- March 23, 2013 02:04(eTN) - News is emerging from Nairobi that one of the aviation fuel supplies to grounded Jetlink has gone to court to file a winding up petition, in order to ... Read More
FastJet reportedly files letter of intent with 1Time liquidators
editor- March 22, 2013 02:54(eTN) - Seemingly unperturbed by the ongoing negative publicity for the airline, as a result of being entangled with former choice darling partner and now turned arch foe Fly540, the ... Read More
FastJet continues to charm investors for more money
editor- March 15, 2013 06:08(eTN) - Reports confirmed by an aviation source in the UK speak of FastJet having secured additional loan funding worth over US$24 million from the US-based Bergen Global Opportunity Fund, ... Read More
FastJet responds to debt and other allegations
editor- February 28, 2013 00:59(eTN) - Information was received from a source in Dar es Salaam who attended a press conference yesterday called by FastJet at short notice. Read More
Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority tells FastJet to pay up or else
editor- February 18, 2013 06:26(eTN) – In spite of denying liability for legacy debts incurred by Fly540 Tanzania before FastJet took over that company in 2012, the trend is now clear that the Tanzanian ... Read More
It is all lies says Fly540
editor- February 11, 2013 08:18(eTN) - In yet a further escalation of the tone and intensity of the raging dispute between the erstwhile partners, Fly540 has now made sweeping allegations against FastJet, telling them ... Read More
Has the air run out for FastJet?
editor- February 7, 2013 02:13(eTN) - The news for upstart FastJet is getting grimmer by the day, as erstwhile partner now turned foe, Fly 540, is reportedly stepping up efforts to extract by hook ... Read More
The air is indeed getting thin up there for FastJet
editor- February 6, 2013 00:21(eTN) - Predictably were the outcries from those named angry but for certain in denial, after the latest article was published on the ups and downs and twists in the ... Read More
Is the air getting thin up there for FastJet?
editor- February 4, 2013 07:02(eTN) - Already embroiled in a potentially major lawsuit with erstwhile buddies Fly540 in Kenya, where some nearly US$7 million are at stake over alleged outstanding payments claimed by one ... Read More
The FastJet versus Fly540 saga – what others are saying
editor- January 30, 2013 11:05(eTN) - Warned severely over their choice of partner in East Africa for their attempt to form a Pan African LCC network, FastJet is now paying the price for dismissing ... Read More
Jetlink subject to speculations over Fastjet link
editor- January 29, 2013 06:45(eTN) - Reports are emerging from Nairobi that Jetlink, a privately-owned airline based in Nairobi and grounded some months ago over South Sudan’s failure to permit repatriation of funds kept ... Read More
FastJet reaches preliminary deal to buy South Africa’s 1Time
editor- December 20, 2012 10:18(eTN) - As suggested here some weeks ago, at the time strenuously denied, news broke in South Africa that the owners of FastJet have reached a preliminary agreement with the ... Read More
FastJet negotiating for a possible buyout of 1time
editor- December 10, 2012 06:24Budget airline FastJet says it is negotiating with the management, directors, and provisional liquidator for a possible buyout of 1time, the South Africa low-cost airline that ceased trading last mont Read More
Battle for supremacy in Tanzania’s airline industry set to intensify
editor- November 21, 2012 07:24The battle for supremacy in the country's civil aviation industry is set to intensify, following the entry of low cost carriers in the market. Read More
Haywood dumps Air Uganda for FastJet job
editor- October 19, 2012 10:04UGANDA (eTN) - When it was reported here a year ago, that one Kayle Haywood was to replace Hugh Fraser as CEO of Air Uganda, the breaking news clearly rattled ... Read More
The 20 dollar FastJet fare exposed as mirage
editor- October 18, 2012 10:24“It is all about making noise, but when you dig deeper you find that it is all a bunch of hog wash, the 20 dollar fare is subject to so ... Read More
Tanzania air service in for changes
editor- October 12, 2012 05:53(eTN) - At the recently-concluded World Routes meeting in Abu Dhabi, senior staff of new kid on the block, FastJet, told the media that their first route will be from ... Read More
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou to launch African budget carrier
editor- June 28, 2012 09:45LONDON, England - A new budget airline backed by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou will soon take to the African skies, promising to bring low-cost flights to millions of people in ... Read More