Baeti ba bangata ba ntse ba hopola likhokahano tseo Lufthansa e faneng ka tsona bakeng sa Afrika e ka bochabela, ha ba ne ba sa ntsane ba tsamaisa lifofane tsa bona tsa letsatsi le letsatsi tsa baeti sebakeng seo (Nairobi le Dar es Salaam) ho fihlela qetellong ea bo-1990. Ka nako eo, LH e ile ea ikhula e sa tsebisa letho ho tsoa linaheng tsena tse peli, e supa chai e tlase le ho haella ha lifofane tse loketseng, ka mor'a hore ba rekise likepe tsa bona tsa A310s 'me ba se na lifofane tse lekaneng tse fumanehang ka nako eo, kapa ba re ba bue pale .
Bajari ba bang, leha ho le joalo, ba sebelisitse chelete e ngata kholisong ena, 'me ho fihlela joale, Frankfurt e ka fihlelleha e sa emise ho tloha Afrika bochabela haeba e fofa ka tokomaneng ea matsatsi a phomolo ho tloha le ho tloha Mombasa kapa ho seng joalo ka lifofane tse reriloeng ka Brussels, Zurich, Amsterdam, London, Addis Ababa, kapa Dubai.
Ha a kopana le CEO ea Lufthansa e Brussels bakeng sa mokete oa Star Alliance o ketekoang ho ba setho sa Brussels Airlines, ho ile ha hlaha monyetla oa ho bua le Wolfgang Mayrhuber ka merero ea bona ea Afrika Bochabela. Ha a botsoa ka menyetla ea hore LH e qale ho fofa ka kotloloho, o boletse hore ha Lufthansa e lula e lekola tlhokeho le phallo ea sephethe-phethe ho ea le ho tsoa Afrika bochabela, sefofane hajoale se thabetse litokisetso tsa sona tsa ho sebelisa khoutu le Brussels Airlines ho ea Entebbe ha e le hantle , ha ho nahanoa ka ho atolosa likarolo tsa khoutu libakeng tse ling tse tharo tsa SN tsa Bochabela tsa Bujumbura, Kigali le Nairobi, ho latela tumello ea molao.
Lufthansa e na le liperesente tse 45 tsa likabelo tsa Brussels Airlines ebile e na le khetho ea ho reka karolo e setseng ea likarolo ka 2011.
Ho joalo le ho Switzerland, eo LH e seng e kopantsoe ka botlalo le Sehlopha sa Lufthansa. Hajoale Switzerland e fofela Nairobi le Dar es Salaam mme e fana ka khokahano e bonolo bakeng sa bapalami ba tsoang Jeremane, ba sebelisa lifofane tse kopaneng tsa Lufthansa le Switzerland lipakeng tsa boema-fofane ba Jeremane le Zurich, moo ba ka fetelang leetong le lelelele la ho ea Nairobi kapa Dar.
Mong Mayrhuber o re o khotsofetse hore lifofane tsena tse peli tsa lifofane li etsa mosebetsi o motle oa ho fana ka litulo bakeng sa mmaraka oa Jeremane ka libaka tsa tsona mme ka hona ho ke ke ha hlola ho qalelisoa lifofane tse sebelisoang ke LH ho ea Afrika bochabela haufinyane - ha ho sa qobelle ho khutlisoa ha nako e ntse e ea, hang ha tlhoko e se e nyolohile hantle ho e tiisa.
Lufthansa, leha ho le joalo, e lula e ikemiselitse, e ile ea suptjoa kholomong ena ke mohloli o mong kahare ho Lufthansa, ho sebetsa lifofane tse tloaelehileng tsa thepa ho tsoa le ho tsoa Kenya le ho batla litefiso tsa thepa ho boema-fofane bo bong ba Afrika bochabela joalo ka ha ho hlokahala nako le nako.
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- Asked about the chances of LH resuming direct flights, he said that while Lufthansa was always monitoring demand and traffic flow to and from eastern Africa, the airline presently is happy with their arrangements of using the code share with Brussels Airlines to Entebbe while, in fact, considering expanding code shares to the other three eastern African SN destinations of Bujumbura, Kigali, and Nairobi, subject to regulatory approvals.
- Mayrhuber said he was satisfied that these two group airlines were doing a good job in offering seats for the German market via their respective hubs and there would, therefore, not be a resumption of LH operated flights to eastern Africa any time soon – while not ruling out a return in the long run, once demand had sufficiently risen to justify it.
- Swiss presently flies into Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and provides an easy connection for passengers from Germany, using Lufthansa and Swiss's joint flights between the German airports and Zurich, where they can transfer to the long-haul flight to Nairobi or Dar.
