New Flight Routes.

Linhas Aérias Moçambicanas (LAM) has asked Mozambican authorities to grant the airline several new routes, including Maputo to Cape Town, Tete to Johannesburg and Nampula to Nairobi.


This comes as the airline has been gradually modernizing its fleet, phasing out old B737-200s and replacing them with Bombardier Q400 and Embraer-190 aircraft. LAM is acquiring six new planes, four of which have already arrived. The frequency of the airline’s inter-provincial flights has thus improved and it has added a route to Luanda.

By the end of 2010, LAM hopes to resume its intercontinental flights to Lisbon. Currently, the Lisbon-Maputo route is operated by TAP and through a code share deal LAM is granted some of the seats on each flights.

According to LAM financial director Jeremias Tchamo the airline will be faced with new competition as TTA Airlink launched its Johannesburg-Maputo flights on February 14. “LAM’s monopoly on the main domestic routes is also about to end with TTA-Airlink signaling its intention to fly from Maputo to Tete, Maputo to Nampula and Maputo to Beira in the near future.