AIR NAMIBIA: NOTICE FOR FRANKFURT ROUTE FREQUENCY RATIONALIZATION FROM JANUARY 27 2013 TO JUNE 24 2013

Windhoek-10 January 2013. This serves to notify all the esteemed and key stakeholders of Air Namibia that, the Lease Agreements for the two Airbus A340-300 aircraft used by the airline to service the Windhoek–Frankfurt route will come to an end in mid-2013.

Air Namibia further wishes to advise that as per industry practice, the airline is obliged to execute heavy maintenance work on these aircraft in order to meet the “return conditions” of the aircraft lease agreements. This implies that, the aircraft will be withdrawn from service one at a time, to facilitate the stated maintenance activities.

The retiring Airbus A340-300 will be replaced by brand new State of the Art Airbus A330- 200 aircraft expected to enter the airline’s fleet from October 2013, in line with national carrier’s fleet renewal programme.

The above has therefore resulted in the following changes to be effected to the Frankfurt flight schedule;
• Effective 27 January 2013 to 24 June 2013,
• One aircraft in operation on the route,
• The frequencies will be reduced from 7 to 4 frequencies per week

Effective 25 June 2013 to 30 November 2013, the schedule of 7 frequencies per week will be restored. From 1 December 2013 to 24 June 2014, the number of frequencies will be 6 per week.