Air Zimbabwe last week appealed to the European aviation safety agency after its application for accreditation to service international airlines flying into Zimbabwe got denied as established.
The application had been to the Aviation Safety Authority (Easa) in a bid to broaden revenue sources through establishing a technical hub for the region.
The purported reason for the rejection was the airlines' inability to even service its own aircraft as revealed in an (Easa) audit.
With that, the airline can't qualify to maintain equipment from other airlines,
"During Edmund Makoni's tenure as acting CEO, the airline resolved to widen its revenue by setting up a maintenance hub for the region and beyond. They were basically imitating the likes of South African Airways whose technical department is profitable" a source said.
"After its application was turned down, the CE; quality assurance manager Onias Moyo and the director in charge of technical services Joseph Makonese flew to Brussels to make an appeal on this decision."
And the application had also been made just a after a month after all five of AirZim aircraft more grounded due to technical problems, forcing the airline to live a South African plane to cover scheduled flights.
Also, Air Zimbabwe is in a debt of US$330 million that has incapacitated the airlines' full performance. The company has since the start of the Zimbabwean cash-crisis struggled to procure its own crucial spare parts for its five planes.
Source: B24N
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