South Africa's CemAir acquires sixteen ex-Delta CRJ100s

CemAir (5Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Bombardier (BBA, Montréal Trudeau) for two Dash 8-400/Q400s. Once firmed, the two turboprops would be the South African operator's first of the type.

CemAir currently operates a fleet of fourteen CRJ-100s, three CRJ-200s, one Dash 8-100, two Dash 8-300s, and nine Beech 1900Ds. Aside from ACMI/charter work, it also offers scheduled passenger flights throughout South Africa serving Johannesburg O.R. Tambo, ...

Air Tanzania (TC, Dar-es-Salaam) is supplementing its current all-turboprop fleet of one Dash 8-300 (inactive) and two Dash 8-400s with a CRJ-100.

Skyliner Aviation reports the Tanzanian state-owned carrier is wet-leasing ZS-CMH (msn 7292) from South African ACMI/charter specialist CemAir (5Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo).

AIr Tanzania is in the process of relaunching its operations following President John Magafuli's decision to revamp the East African state's moribund public institutions ...

Air Botswana (BP, Gaborone) has put its fleet renewal plans on hold the airline Commercial Director, Hugh Fraser, has disclosed.

Speaking to the Botswana Guardian newspaper, Fraser said the process would only be resumed once the recently initiated privatization process had been completed.

The government-owned carrier currently operates a fleet of three ATR42-500s and one ATR72-500 averaging nearly eighteen years of age. Two ARJ-85s and two BAe 146-100s have been decommissioned and are ...

Rainbow Airlines (RAT, Harare Int'l) is provisionally set to make its international debut next month, a review of the Zimbabwean carrier's booking engine has revealed.

The start-up, which only commenced flights last month, plans to start a 3x weekly Harare Int'l-Johannesburg O.R. Tambo, South Africa, flight on Sunday, March 5, using its sole aircraft, a CRJ-100 leased from CemAir (5Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo).

Its debut route, Harare Int'l-Victoria Falls, currently operates as a weekly ...