Comunicação - Imprensa
LAM-Mozambique Airlines announces Interline agreement with Air France/KLM
Mozambique Airlines (LAM) and the Air France/KLM group are to initiate a code-sharing agreement, the Mozambican company announced this Wednesday, at a time when French companies are reinforcing investment in the country overall.
The two airlines share as destinations the cities of Johannesburg in South Africa, Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania and Nairobi and Kenya, where interconnections without separate ticketing will be enabled. Air France/KLM tickets will be issued for any of LAM’s domestic destinations, and vice versa.
“This partnership with Air France/KLM will expand our network of connections outside Africa,” LAM director general João Carlos Pó Jorge says in the note announcing the agreement.
The reinforcement of French investment in Mozambique is led by Total oil, which, in September 2019, started to lead the natural gas extraction project in Area 1, Cabo Delgado, the largest private investment in Africa, worth around US$20,000 million (€17.7 thousand million).
Other French companies are present in the country, particularly in the beverages, logistics and energy sectors, and, from this year, maritime cabotage.
Mozambique suspended international flights in mid-May as part of Covid-19 counter-measures, but President Nyusi announced on Sunday that connections would resume with some countries, without specifying which or on what dates.
By Wednesday (July 1), Mozambique had recorded a total of 903 coronavirus cases, with six deaths and 248 people patients fully recovered, according to the latest update from the Ministry of Health.
