Air Zimbabwe banned from flying to the European Union due to safety concerns

Struggling national airline, Air Zimbabwe has been banned from flying to the European Union due to safety concerns. The European Commission today updated the EU Air Safety List and Air Zimbabwe was one of the four airlines that were deemed as not meeting the international safety standards, and are therefore subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union.”

Part of the European Commission’s press release reads:

Following today’s update, all airlines certified in Benin and Mozambique are cleared from the list, following further improvements to the aviation safety situation in these countries. On the other hand, the airlines Med-View (Nigeria), Mustique Airways (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Aviation Company Urga (Ukraine) and Air Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) were added to the list due to unaddressed safety deficiencies that were detected by the European Aviation Safety Agency during the assessment for a third country operator authorisation.

Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc said: “I am glad that we are able to take all carriers from Benin and Mozambique out of the air safety list. Their reforms have paid off. This is also a signal to the 16 countries that remain on the list. It shows that work and cooperation pays off. The Commission and the European Aviation Safety Agency are ready to assist them and raise the safety standards worldwide”.

The EU Air Safety List not only helps to maintain high levels of safety in the EU, but it also helps affected countries to improve their levels of safety, in order to eventually allow them to operate flights to and from airports in the European Union. In addition, the EU Air Safety List has become a major preventive tool, as it motivates countries with safety problems to act upon them before a ban under the EU Air Safety List would become necessary.

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The airline is continuing to hog the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Only 3 days ago, the beleaguered airline flew from Johannesburg, South Africa to Harare with only 4 passengers. In February the airline also flew from Harare to Johannesburg wth only 3 passengers.  The airline has also been getting a lot of criticism for using handwritten boarding passes.

President Mugabe’s son-in-law, Simba Chikore, is the Chief Operating Officer of the airline, haveing been appointed last year, in a move that was slammed by critics as blatant nepotism.

More: European Commission Press Release