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Air traffic expected to increase in Namibia

Xinhua, July 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

Passenger and aircraft movements in Namibia are expected to increase as more routes in Windhoek have been opened up, according to Namibia Airports Company (NAC).

NAC said, that Namibia's flagship airport, Hosea Kutako handled 794,780 passengers and about 14 371 aircrafts movements in 2015 and these numbers are expected to increase.

This was revealed on Thursday, during the inaugural ceremony to welcome the first ever Condor Airlines, which will be operating on the Munich and Windhoek Route.

Furthermore NAC said that traffic is also expected to increase even more with Qatar Airlines joining the fray in September 2016.

Earlier in the year, Qatar Airways announced that they would introduce direct flights between Windhoek and Doha in Qatar, which will be part of 14 new world destinations the airline will service.

Meanwhile, NAC's Strategic Executive for Business Strategy Toska Sem said that the airports company will continue to invest infrastructure development at all its eight airports to ensure that they remain true to their value of safe and secure airports in Namibia. Enditem