Africa-Press – Angola. Cabinda is the domestic route on which TAAG operates the largest number of flights, with 35 flights per week, transporting an average of 2,500 passengers, revealed on Friday the executive director for the Commercial Area of the largest Angolan airline.
Miguel Carneiro was speaking to the press, after leaving the meeting with Governor Suzana de Abreu, at the local Government Palace, and said that this is the main reason why the province was chosen as the first to benefit from the transfer of TAAG flights, from 4 de Fevereiro Airport to the new Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport (AIAAN).
According to the executive director for the Commercial Area, the process of transferring TAAG’s commercial flights from the old airport to the new one will begin on 10 November, to allow the airline to provide an excellent service to passengers on the Luanda/Cabinda route and vice versa.
Miguel Carneiro explained that the connection from Cabinda to AIAAN will be an added value for the entire population of the region, taking into account that the province represents a great challenge, in operational terms, for TAAG teams.
He assured that TAAG works with other entities to improve mobility, such as the Luanda Railway, TCUL and Macon, to allow passengers to reach their destinations without constraints.
The official acknowledged, on the other hand, that the company has not been a good example in providing services on the Cabinda route, a fact that has disappointed the expectations of many passengers.
“If we start communicating better, more assertively, clearly and continuously with our customers, we will provide an excellent service to everyone”, he maintained.
Greater security
On the occasion, the governor of Cabinda, Suzana de Abreu, said that the new airport has a set of services that will offer greater comfort, security and mobility to passengers on the Cabinda – Luanda route and vice versa.
According to the governor, who expressed her satisfaction with the choice of the province as the first to benefit from the transfer of flights from the old airport (4 de Fevereiro) to AIAAN, the level of weekly flight frequency that the province of Cabinda receives constitutes a great opportunity for TAAG and other air operators to improve services.
For the bishop of the Diocese of Cabinda, Dom Belmiro Chissengueti, the transfer of flights from 4 de Fevereiro to the new airport is an irreversible reality to which citizens will have to adapt.
Bishop Belmiro Chissengueti drew attention to the need to improve the ticket sales mechanism. “It is a service that we would like to continue to offer a discount, given the geographical discontinuity of the province with the rest of the country,” the bishop argued, before denouncing the existence of several opportunistic citizens who sell tickets for three times their normal price.
Officially, a round-trip ticket between Luanda and Cabinda costs less than 30 thousand kwanzas.
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