Botswana's Mack Air partners Zimbabwe's CATS for safari ops

Botswana's Mack Air and Zimbabwean charter carrier Central Air Transport Services (CATS) have announced a new codeshare partnership for the launch of a new daily safari service between Victoria Falls and Hwange National Park, both in Zimbabwe, in April 2022. “As tourism growth continues to improve across Southern Africa in a post COVID environment, it is important for aviation charter and commuter companies to play an integral and catalytic role in assisting with the recovery of the regional tourism sector. The union between CATS and Mack Air is one of the ways we intend to try and be a part of the solution and further assist in uniting African countries by further bolstering tourism and conservation efforts across Southern Africa,” Mack Air said. “CATS and Mack Air share a common vision and we aim to assist in bringing confidence back to regional safari travel and likewise open new destinations and continue to play a critical role within the southern region of Zimbabwe and Botswana and more specifically the Hwange area,” said Mack Air Managing Director, Michael Weyl. He said safari tourists would be able to connect on Mack Air’s international scheduled flight between Kasane (Botswana) and Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) to the new daily flights to airstrips within the Hwange National Park. The new Hwange service will also offer connections to Eurowings’ new connection from Frankfurt Int'l via Windhoek Int'l to Victoria Falls starting on March 30, 2022. “We’re thrilled to be able to get in on the action by offering our new services to the Hwange area – meaning international visitors arriving on the Eurowings flight can smoothly link between Victoria Falls, Hwange, and Kasane,” the carrier said.<br/>