Gaborone, Botswana.
Botswana. (News of The South) – Botswana’s state owned airline Air Botswana, is set to cut its workforce from 450 to 210 employees. The announcement was made yesterday by the airline’s chairperson, Tebogo Masire.
The airline has been experiencing running losses since 2008, due to an aging fleet, high maintenance costs, equipment failure, route redundancy and pressure from competition.
The government has already tried to sell the airline, without success. Masire said, “we thought buying new air craft would do the trick but it has not.”
Air Botswana’s general manager, Agnes Khunwana also weighed in on the issue, “we have three aircrafts and 450 staff so we have not scratched the surface.
That is more than 100 staff per craft yet other airlines in our league are at about 70.
Air Botswana must be lean and mean if it is to make money and non-core activities are distracting the core business.”
The state owned airline has been running at a loss for more than a decade.
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