{"id":66741,"date":"2024-03-03T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:42:50","slug":"why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights","title":{"rendered":"Why RwandAir plans to suspend Mumbai flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Emmanuel Ntirenganya<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>National carrier RwandAir will suspend all flights to and from Mumbai, effective March 15 in line with its continuous service improvement strategy, an official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on why the national carrier plans flight suspension to India\u2019s most populous city, RwandAir \u2018s acting Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Andrew Best Owie told The New Times that: \u201cRwandAir started this route seven years ago, and has continuously sought new ways to improve on its service delivery on the route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, the need to source and deploy the right product to serve our esteemed passengers on the route has necessitated our action for now. Our present constraint to operate a non-stop flight to India is a major challenge which the airline hope to resolve in the nearest future with the right product in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On how the move could affect RwandAir\u2019s business, and the plan to deal with such an impact, he said that the airline is always assessing its routes \u201cto ensure we are optimising our network in line with customer demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we have the right network optimisation strategy in place. Hence, you can be assured that this has no wider effect on our operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>RwandAir flies to more than 20 cities in Western, Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, according to information from the airline.<\/p>\n<p>In Africa, RwandAir destinations are Abuja, Accra, Bangui, Brazzaville, Bujumbura, Cape Town, Cotonou, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Kilimanjaro, Lagos, Libreville, Lusaka, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Its destinations in Europe are Brussels, London, and Paris, while in Asia, it flies to Dubai, Guangzhou, and Mumbai (for which it is expected to suspend flights come March 15).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The New Times<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Ntirenganya Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. National carrier RwandAir will suspend all flights to and from Mumbai, effective March 15 in line with its continuous service improvement strategy, an official has said. Commenting on why the national carrier plans flight suspension to India\u2019s most populous city, RwandAir \u2018s acting Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Andrew Best Owie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":66740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,761],"tags":[760,763,758,1323],"class_list":["post-66741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandair"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why RwandAir plans to suspend Mumbai flights - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"National carrier RwandAir will suspend all flights to and from Mumbai, effective March 15 in line with its continuous se ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why RwandAir plans to suspend Mumbai flights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National carrier RwandAir will suspend all flights to and from Mumbai, effective March 15 in line with its continuous se ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-03T16:11:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-03T16:42:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/sm_1709471112.988592.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"568\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why RwandAir plans to suspend Mumbai flights\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-03T16:11:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-03T16:42:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\"},\"wordCount\":301,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/sm_1709471112.988592.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\",\"Rwandair\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-rwandair-plans-to-suspend-mumbai-flights\",\"name\":\"Why RwandAir plans to suspend Mumbai flights - 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