How RwandAir is bankrupting Rwanda and why we need a regional airline

[Cicero]

t may be tempting to follow Rwanda’s example of building what appears to be a successful airline. Indeed, RwandAir looks impressive from a distance.

RwandAir began operations in 2002 as the new national carrier under the name Rwandair Express. In 2009, the airline’s name was changed to RwandAir. Its fleet currently comprises:

• Two Airbus A330
• Four Boeing 737–800
• Two Boeing 737–700
• Two CRJ900
• Two Bombardier Q-400

The airline has considerably expanded its operations. RwandAir serves twenty-two cities in western, central, eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The airline has also applied for landing rights in the United States at JFK International Airport, New York.

A closer look at RwandAir’s state of affairs shows us the real situation. RwandAir’s financial statements from 2013 to 2016 reveal how the airline is bankrupting Rwanda. The circumstances of RwandAir may be summed as follows:

• Total assets — US$238 Million by 2016;
• Accumulated losses between 2013 and 2016 — US$222 Million;
• Accumulated grants from the government between 2013 and 2016 — US$192 Million;
• Accumulated government loans — US$238 Million;
• Accumulated loans from outside government sources — US$100.6 Million.

MY TAKE:
The story of Kenya Airways isn't that much different.
Solution ni kuwa na regional airline.

 

[REDEEMER.]

The blood veins of any airline business and perhaps any business is home-based purchasing power sasa Rwanda ina labor force of not less than 6 million people

The domestic market is almost exhausting to be reasonable mathalan kutoka mji mmoja wa Rwanda kwenda mwingine how long will it takes to get there by air and why not by road?

What are the factors to influence international customers to land in Rwanda? Is it anyhow business hub? Transportation hub? Tourism hub? Or what?

Kuna mambo mengi ya kujiuliza what are viable strategies for RwandAir to buy all these aircrafts and how they will going to pay off.

Tanzania we have all potentials of not going through Rwandas circumstances basing on the fact above, we've all reasons and factors to grow bigger than even Ethiopian

 

[mulisaaa]

t may be tempting to follow Rwanda’s example of building what appears to be a successful airline. Indeed, RwandAir looks impressive from a distance.

RwandAir began operations in 2002 as the new national carrier under the name Rwandair Express. In 2009, the airline’s name was changed to RwandAir. Its fleet currently comprises:

• Two Airbus A330
• Four Boeing 737–800
• Two Boeing 737–700
• Two CRJ900
• Two Bombardier Q-400

The airline has considerably expanded its operations. RwandAir serves twenty-two cities in western, central, eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The airline has also applied for landing rights in the United States at JFK International Airport, New York.

A closer look at RwandAir’s state of affairs shows us the real situation. RwandAir’s financial statements from 2013 to 2016 reveal how the airline is bankrupting Rwanda. The circumstances of RwandAir may be summed as follows:

• Total assets — US$238 Million by 2016;
• Accumulated losses between 2013 and 2016 — US$222 Million;
• Accumulated grants from the government between 2013 and 2016 — US$192 Million;
• Accumulated government loans — US$238 Million;
• Accumulated loans from outside government sources — US$100.6 Million.

MY TAKE:
The story of Kenya Airways isn't that much different.
Solution ni kuwa na regional airline.

Regional airline waliiyuwa Kenya. Pili mtu aliye andika hiyo article anaugomvi na Kagame. Alikimbilia Canada.

 

[mulisaaa]

The blood veins of any airline business and perhaps any business is home-based purchasing power sasa Rwanda ina labor force of not less than 6 million people

The domestic market is almost exhausting to be reasonable mathalan kutoka mji mmoja wa Rwanda kwenda mwingine how long will it takes to get there by air and why not by road?

What are the factors to influence international customers to land in Rwanda? Is it anyhow business hub? Transportation hub? Tourism hub? Or what?

Kuna mambo mengi ya kujiuliza what are viable strategies for RwandAir to buy all these aircrafts and how they will going to pay off.

Tanzania we have all potentials of not going through Rwandas circumstances basing on the fact above, we've all reasons and factors to grow bigger than even Ethiopian

Kagame target yake nikuifanya Rwanda kuwa logistic hub ya East Africa. Yeye ame target kama ilivyo Ethiopia.

 

[Geza Ulole]

The blood veins of any airline business and perhaps any business is home-based purchasing power sasa Rwanda ina labor force of not less than 6 million people

The domestic market is almost exhausting to be reasonable mathalan kutoka mji mmoja wa Rwanda kwenda mwingine how long will it takes to get there by air and why not by road?

What are the factors to influence international customers to land in Rwanda? Is it anyhow business hub? Transportation hub? Tourism hub? Or what?

Kuna mambo mengi ya kujiuliza what are viable strategies for RwandAir to buy all these aircrafts and how they will going to pay off.

Tanzania we have all potentials of not going through Rwandas circumstances basing on the fact above, we've all reasons and factors to grow bigger than even Ethiopian

Kagame target yake nikuifanya Rwanda kuwa logistic hub ya East Africa. Yeye ame target kama ilivyo Ethiopia.

Hata Ethiopia itakuja pata Tatizo la Rwanda maaana nje ya Addis Ababa hamna infrastructure na the way tanzania na Uganda wanakuja na airline zao. Ndo maana wanafungua airlines across Africa.

 

[Petro Proshenko]

Historia inajiridhisha kuwa Rwanda haikuwahi kumiliki shirika la Ndege,Sasa ndo wsanajifunza namna ya kutengeneza hasara kupitia Shirika hilo.Tanzania tuna pa kuanzia kujifunza lakini makosa ya awali hayaepukiki aslani lazima tuangukie pua tu hata iweje.Tuache siasa kwenye kazi za watu someni alama za nyakati.Zungukia mashirika yote ya ndege katika ulimwengu wa Tatu useme lipi shirika la ndege limewahi au linatengeneza faida.....HAKUNA !!

 

[Cicero]

The blood veins of any airline business and perhaps any business is home-based purchasing power sasa Rwanda ina labor force of not less than 6 million people

The domestic market is almost exhausting to be reasonable mathalan kutoka mji mmoja wa Rwanda kwenda mwingine how long will it takes to get there by air and why not by road?

What are the factors to influence international customers to land in Rwanda? Is it anyhow business hub? Transportation hub? Tourism hub? Or what?

Kuna mambo mengi ya kujiuliza what are viable strategies for RwandAir to buy all these aircrafts and how they will going to pay off.

Tanzania we have all potentials of not going through Rwandas circumstances basing on the fact above, we've all reasons and factors to grow bigger than even Ethiopian

Tanzania has a good home based purchasing power?
Mi nimewahi kupanda ATCL Dar to Dodoma ilikuwa just 75% full.
Anyways.......maybe ATCL itakuwa successful, but its success can never match that of a successful regional airline if we had one!

 

[Cicero]

Regional airline waliiyuwa Kenya. Pili mtu aliye andika hiyo article anaugomvi na Kagame. Alikimbilia Canada.

Doesn't change the facts. Ameweka data.

 

[mulwanaka]

Regional airline waliiyuwa Kenya. Pili mtu aliye andika hiyo article anaugomvi na Kagame. Alikimbilia Canada.

Challange him with facts and data...... kasema ya kwake haijalishi uhusiano wake na Kagame.....Biashara ya airline inahitaji feasibility study sio kukurupuka hii imekua kama "bandwagon" fulani katika region hii kwakuiga Kenya na Ethiopia.... Imagine Tanzania and Uganda eti wanafufua airlines zao.....jambo ambalo ni "economic suicide" matharani Ug ilisha uza routes zote mhimu kwa S.A. air Tz inamegi ya ki clear na internatinal aviation kwenye mtandao wa tiketi hatumo......ila kukuboa zaidi, nchi hizi, middle class income ya kupanda ndege ni ndogo sana and undefinable....airline katika region hii zimebadilika kua political tools, sio kibiashara kabisa.... kwa mtizamo wangu.

 

[pingli-nywee]

Regional airline? How? When we can't even agree on simple basic matters between the E.African nations? When it comes to real matters Tanzania will never be a level headed partner. Lets face the truth, we are only neighbours by default, through forces of nature. Watz mnapenda kuingiza porojo na siasa hata pasipofaa. Itakuwa ni ndoto za mchana tu. Kila mtu abebe mzigo wake mwenyewe. Hamna cha bure!

 

[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania has a good home based purchasing power?
Mi nimewahi kupanda ATCL Dar to Dodoma ilikuwa just 75% full.
Anyways.......maybe ATCL itakuwa successful, but its success can never match that of a successful regional airline if we had one!

Panda tena sasa! Au jaribu Dar-Mwanza, Dar-Znz, Dar-Kilimanjaro! BTW 75% is pretty good as that's is a load factor of 0.75 for any airline.

 

[Jay456watt]

rwanda wanajiskuma skuma tu kumbe hawana chochote...biashara ya airline mtu hakurupuki.

 

[Jay456watt]

regional airline is impossible...sahau tu

 

[NairobiWalker]

t may be tempting to follow Rwanda’s example of building what appears to be a successful airline. Indeed, RwandAir looks impressive from a distance.

RwandAir began operations in 2002 as the new national carrier under the name Rwandair Express. In 2009, the airline’s name was changed to RwandAir. Its fleet currently comprises:

• Two Airbus A330
• Four Boeing 737–800
• Two Boeing 737–700
• Two CRJ900
• Two Bombardier Q-400

The airline has considerably expanded its operations. RwandAir serves twenty-two cities in western, central, eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The airline has also applied for landing rights in the United States at JFK International Airport, New York.

A closer look at RwandAir’s state of affairs shows us the real situation. RwandAir’s financial statements from 2013 to 2016 reveal how the airline is bankrupting Rwanda. The circumstances of RwandAir may be summed as follows:

• Total assets — US$238 Million by 2016;
• Accumulated losses between 2013 and 2016 — US$222 Million;
• Accumulated grants from the government between 2013 and 2016 — US$192 Million;
• Accumulated government loans — US$238 Million;
• Accumulated loans from outside government sources — US$100.6 Million.

MY TAKE:
The story of Kenya Airways isn't that much different.
Solution ni kuwa na regional airline.

Most National Carriers are not meant to make profits. They're meant to spruce up other sectors of the economy. Rwandair may seem like it's making losses but it's contribution to GDP is much higher than the losses it makes. If you still wonder why Nairobi has more star-rated hotels than Dar despite Dar being on the coast with all the nice beaches - then that is one of the reasons.

 

[mulwanaka]

Regional airline? How? When we can't even agree on simple basic matters between the E.African nations? When it comes to real matters Tanzania will never be a level headed partner. Lets face the truth, we are only neighbours by default, through forces of nature. Watz mnapenda kuingiza porojo na siasa hata pasipofaa. Itakuwa ni ndoto za mchana tu. Kila mtu abebe mzigo wake mwenyewe. Hamna cha bure!

But also Kenye sio dependable partner ......selfish and hypocracy she want to dominant other partners in every aspect, forgeting the fact that Kenya can't survival and stand alone without her big neibours Tanzania and Uganda the biggest importer of her products and their key factor for her political stability

 

[NairobiWalker]

But also Kenye sio dependable partner ......selfish and hypocracy she want to dominant other partners in every aspect, forgeting the fact that Kenya can't survival and stand alone without her big neibours Tanzania and Uganda the biggest importer of her products and their key factor for her political stability

Everyone wants to dominate. It's only the best that manage it while the rest remain crying.

 

[Kafrican]

t may be tempting to follow Rwanda’s example of building what appears to be a successful airline. Indeed, RwandAir looks impressive from a distance.

RwandAir began operations in 2002 as the new national carrier under the name Rwandair Express. In 2009, the airline’s name was changed to RwandAir. Its fleet currently comprises:

• Two Airbus A330
• Four Boeing 737–800
• Two Boeing 737–700
• Two CRJ900
• Two Bombardier Q-400

The airline has considerably expanded its operations. RwandAir serves twenty-two cities in western, central, eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The airline has also applied for landing rights in the United States at JFK International Airport, New York.

A closer look at RwandAir’s state of affairs shows us the real situation. RwandAir’s financial statements from 2013 to 2016 reveal how the airline is bankrupting Rwanda. The circumstances of RwandAir may be summed as follows:

• Total assets — US$238 Million by 2016;
• Accumulated losses between 2013 and 2016 — US$222 Million;
• Accumulated grants from the government between 2013 and 2016 — US$192 Million;
• Accumulated government loans — US$238 Million;
• Accumulated loans from outside government sources — US$100.6 Million.

MY TAKE:
The story of Kenya Airways isn't that much different.
Solution ni kuwa na regional airline.

Tz mlikataa kujiunga na free airline market treaty ya Africa ambayo ili sainiwa feb 2018 as part of AU.... that agreement guarantees african airlines not to force each other out of business....

anyway... Kenya tuko na enough market to support multiple local airlines....




Date: 15 June 2017
Air transport supports 620,000 jobs, contributes US$3.2bn in GDP for Kenya
Nairobi - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released new data showing that the air transport sector in Kenya supports some 620,000 jobs including tourism-related employment, while contributing US$3.2 billion or 5.1% of the East African nation’s GDP.
These findings are among the highlights of The Importance of Air Transport to Kenya (pdf) study conducted by Oxford Economics
on behalf of IATA.

IATA - Air transport supports 620,000 jobs, contributes US$3.2bn in GDP for Kenya







Aviation sector in new high as passenger numbers hit record 10 million
By Frankline Sunday
Published: Mar 14th 2017 at 08:28, Updated: March 14th 2017 at 08:28
The number of passengers going through the country’s airports and airstrips has hit an all-time high, providing a lifeline for local airlines.
Further, an analysis of the latest air traffic data from the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) – seen exclusively by Business Beat – indicates that domestic travellers through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) last year made up 40 per cent of overall passengers. This is an increase from 32 per cent five years ago.
In its report, KAA projects that the country’s aviation industry is on an upward trajectory, with the total number of passengers last year growing by 11 per cent to hit 10 million for the first time ever.
Aviation sector in new high as passenger numbers hit record 10 million

 

[mulwanaka]

Everyone wants to dominate. It's only the best that manage it while the rest remain crying.

Dominant through clean and acceptable manners.....not hypocracy with your so called sister countries, imagine Kenya wa lobying UN to shift her regional air base from Entebe Uganda to Nairobi Kenya....that's hypocracy of the highest degree

 

[Jay456watt]

But also Kenye sio dependable partner ......selfish and hypocracy she want to dominant other partners in every aspect, forgeting the fact that Kenya can't survival and stand alone without her big neibours Tanzania and Uganda the biggest importer of her products and their key factor for her political stability

who doesn't want to dominate? haha kaka kila kampuni au nchi inataka ku dominate...tuseme tu sio kila nchi inaweza kufikia kiwango hicho...

 

[mulwanaka]

who doesn't want to dominate? haha kaka kila kampuni au nchi inataka ku dominate...tuseme tu sio kila nchi inaweza kufikia kiwango hicho...

Hamna anae kata hilo ila namna ya kulitekeleza ndo shida....Kenya inatabia ya unafiki, wa hari ya juu...kuuza bidha zako Tz sio lazma uue viwanda vya Tz kwanza kwa kutumia mbinu chafu