{"id":6179,"date":"2011-12-16T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/zimbabwe-suspends-flights-to-s-africa-over-debts\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T10:25:41","slug":"zimbabwe-suspends-flights-to-s-africa-over-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwe-suspends-flights-to-s-africa-over-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe suspends flights to S.Africa over debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE<\/span> Dec 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s state-owned<br \/>\nairline has suspended flights to neighbouring South Africa over<br \/>\nfears its planes could be seized for outstanding debts, a senior<br \/>\nairline official told state media.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Air Zimbabwe acting chief executive Innocent Mavhunga said<br \/>\nthe corporation, which is struggling to pay off debts of over<br \/>\n$140 million, had decided to temporarily stop its daily flights<br \/>\nto Johannesburg to avoid creditors there.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not flying into South Africa. We are trying to<br \/>\nsecure funding to pay our debts in South Africa,&#8221; he was<br \/>\nreported as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mavhunga however was unavailable on Friday to explain why<br \/>\nAir Zimbabwe was not worried about continuing flights to other<br \/>\nforeign destinations, Lusaka in Zambia and Lubumbashi in the<br \/>\nDemocratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Air Zimbabwe scrambled for days for money<br \/>\nto save a Boeing 767-200 which had been impounded on landing at<br \/>\nLondon&#8217;s Gatwick Airport after a U.S. firm, American General<br \/>\nSupplies, got a court order for $1.2 million owed for aircraft<br \/>\nspares.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a South African airport support services company,<br \/>\nBid Air, forced Air Zimbabwe to ground a plane in Johannesburg<br \/>\nas it pressed for payment of a $500,000 debt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economic analysts say Air Zimbabwe is on the verge of<br \/>\ncollapse after years of mismanagement and poor funding by<br \/>\nPresident Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The suspension does not cut the Harare-Johannesburg route<br \/>\nsince South African Airways has three flights daily and<br \/>\nBritish Airways&#8217; Comair also has a daily flight.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Cris Chinaka; editing by Philippa Fletcher)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE Dec 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s state-owned airline has suspended flights to neighbouring South Africa over fears its planes could be seized for outstanding debts, a senior airline official told state media. Air Zimbabwe acting chief executive Innocent Mavhunga said the corporation, which is struggling to pay off debts of over $140 million, had decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}