fastjet gets off to a flying start

African low-cost airline fastjet carried more than 900 paying passengers of its first day of commercial flight operations yesterday, achieving an average booked load factor (a measure of how full planes are) each of 78 per cent.

African low-cost airline fastjet carried more than 900 paying passengers of its first day of commercial flight operations yesterday, achieving an average booked load factor (a measure of how full planes are) each of 78 per cent.

The company said that future demand for seats on the two initial routes - from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, and Dar es Salaam to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania - is currently "far outstripping supply".

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