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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>On 21 December, Mozambique Airlines (LAM) begins an operation between the South African town of Lanseria, where thousands of Mozambican miners work, and Xai-Xai airport, the first major commercial operation of that infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that our brothers are there, who usually return en masse at the end of the year. The information we have is that there are around 5,000 miners there,\u201d explained LAM\u2019s commercial director, Firmino Naftal, speaking to journalists at Cape Town International Airport in South Africa.<\/p>\n

He added that this link, between Lanseria, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, and Filipe Jacinto Nyusi airport, in the southern province of Gaza, will have four flights a day from 21 December to 24 December and will resume after the New Year period to take them back to the mines in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The airport was inaugurated by the Mozambican head of state, Filipe Nyusi, on 11 November 2021, but since then, it has had practically no commercial activity, with this LAM operation being the first major operation for the infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that there is a large South African community in Gaza and Inhambane provinces looking for these services. If there is consolidation, we will be able to maintain this operation,\u201d Firmino Naftal said in Cape Town, South Africa, launching the connecting flight to and from Maputo on Tuesday and today at the same time as the flight to and from Lisbon.<\/p>\n

This will be LAM\u2019s third destination in South Africa, where it already flies to Johannesburg and Cape Town international airports.<\/p>\n

LAM\u2019s flight network covers 12 destinations on the domestic market, as well as Johannesburg, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Lusaka, and now Cape Town on regional routes, operating more than 40 flights a day using one Boeing 737, three Bombardier Q400s, two Bombardier CRJ 900s and two Embraer 145s operated by subsidiary MEX \u2013 Moc\u0327ambique Expresso.<\/p>\n

The Cape Town and Lisbon destinations \u2013 which also debuted on Tuesday and today \u2013 are part of the operator\u2019s revitalisation plan after the South African company Fly Modern Ark (FMA) took over LAM\u2019s management in April this year.<\/p>\n

LAM intends to double its fleet of aircraft to at least 22 by 2027, the Mozambican flag carrier\u2019s management previously told Lusa.<\/p>\n

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