Tanzania to cut SAA links – paper

DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzania plans to sever links between its national carrier and South African Airways (SAA), a local daily yesterday quoted the infrastructure minister as saying.

The South African carrier bought a 49 per cent stake in Air Tanzania for US$20 million in 2002, while the Tanzanian government owns the rest. “There are problems in the Air Tanzania Company Limited merger as reported by media recently,” Infrastructure Development Minister Basil Mramba was quoted in the Citizen as saying in parliament in Dodoma on Tuesday.”We have decided to part ways and we are now negotiating how….”Mramba gave no details of the nature of problems between SAA and Air Tanzania, or when and how the two firms would part.Neither Mramba nor officials at Air Tanzania could be immediately reached for comment.- Nampa-Reuters”There are problems in the Air Tanzania Company Limited merger as reported by media recently,” Infrastructure Development Minister Basil Mramba was quoted in the Citizen as saying in parliament in Dodoma on Tuesday.”We have decided to part ways and we are now negotiating how….”Mramba gave no details of the nature of problems between SAA and Air Tanzania, or when and how the two firms would part.Neither Mramba nor officials at Air Tanzania could be immediately reached for comment.- Nampa-Reuters