Plea to Chinamasa for $2,7m to rescue AirZim

THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development has made a plea to Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to assist Air Zimbabwe with $2,7 million needed for re-engagement with the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

In their 2016 National Budget analysis, chairperson of the committee Dextor Nduna (Zanu PF) said it was imperative for government to help Air Zimbabwe before the country’s airline was kicked out of IATA.

“We need to pay $2, 7 million in total before we get kicked out of this global organisation, and it is very important that we get this money cognisant of the fact that there is no (budgetary) allocation that has been given to Air Zimbabwe as we speak,” Nduna said.

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