Times of Eswatini

Eswatini Air receives FOP for Zimbabwe

- BY MHLENGI MAGONGO MEDIUM

MBABANE – The Royal Eswatini National Airways Corporatio­n (RENAC)’s Eswatini Air has received the Foreign Operator Permit (FOP) for Zimbabwe.

RENAC said the FOP for South Africa (SA) was in the process, they have been assigned airline codes by the Internatio­nal Air Transport Associatio­n (IATA).

“The assigned IATA 2 letter code is RN while the IATA 3 digit accounting prefix is 507,” mentioned RENAC in a statement.

Approval

The corporatio­n said since the approval of our air operator certificat­e (AOC), several preparator­y and post-AOC actions were initiated. They attested to have made tremendous progress in securing identifica­tion when operating internatio­nal flights. RENAC said these codes were used for facilitati­ng communicat­ion between the airline and air navigation services providers or airspace management agencies. “Following that, we applied for landing and departure slots at OR Tambo Internatio­nal, King Shaka Internatio­nal, Cape Town Internatio­nal Airports in SA and at Robert Gabriel Mugabe (Harare) Internatio­nal Airport in Zimbabwe.

Cleared

“As soon as these outstandin­g matters are cleared, our systems will be updated and we will publish our schedules and pricing to allow us to commence trading and flying passengers to their different destinatio­ns.”

“At the present moment, we

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Tcan’t set a definite date for our maiden flight as the turnaround time for the outstandin­g process is dependent on various factors beyond our control.

We, however, envisage taking to the skies at the beginning of the next IATA season, which is 26 March 2023,” added RENAC.

Due to the work that still needs to happen in the background, to ensure they operate at optimum best, RENAC said they have seen it fit to break their launch into three phases.

They envisage starting with one destinatio­n and the two others will be added after an interim period of less than one month, with phase Ill whereby we add the fourth destinatio­n being the final stage.

RENAC said the exact dates for each phase and sequence of destinatio­ns will be announced as soon as the outstandin­g processes have been finalised.

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