Tanzania Air Safari Using Scheduled and Non-Scheduled flights

Tanzania is one of the gifted Country with beautiful geographical features and wildlife you would want to visit and see for yourselve in Eastern Africa.

It has several airports and airstrips for air transport and tourism is its second source of foreign income.Air Transport is playing a vital role in both commercial and private charter for both cargo and passengers regionally and internatiionally.For tourism its is served by three main Airports namely,Zanzibar,Kilimanjaro Inteernational and Daresaalam and Arusha which serves both the Northern and Sourthern Circuits.We have both local flights to National Parks and Reserves and Major Cities and International arriving and departing on daily basis. We have both 3,4,5 star Hotels for accomodation with both continental dishes and african. There exclussive properties like Sasakwa,Grumeti which serve for the V.I.P and top bussiness executives and personalities and we have both scheduled and non-scheduled flights that you can take you there.

SCHEDULED FLIGHTS

There are several scheduled flights into the National Parks departing out of Zanzibar,Daresaalam,Kilimanjaro ,Arusha,Mwanza,Musoma among others.These scheduled flights are operated by Private Charter Companies and operate on daily basis. The aircrafts used depend with the airstrip serviceability and it ranges from 12 seater C-208 Caravan single engine ,18 seater LET 410 UVP-E9/20 twin engine,Twin-otter 17 seater twin engine,Caravan 2 C-406 twin engine 11 seater ,Beechcraft 1900 18 seater twin engine pressurized ,ATR 42 37 seater twin engine among others.Scheduled flights do depart especially to the National Parks from Arusha and only for groups then you will be picked from Kilimanjaro.Arusha airport is not airport of entry you will have to enter through Kilimanjaro International clear customs and immigration then fly to Arusha or be dropped at Kilimanjaro International Airportand drive to Arusha Airport.Arusha Airport is used for domestic departures and also to avoid congestion at Kilimanjaro International due to International arrivals and delays due to arrivals and departures of Jet Aircrafts. Arusha Airport is for General Aviation and has all facilities for all local flights within Tanzania.

NON-SCHEDULED FLIGHTS

There are alot of Private Charter Firms in Tanzania based in Zanzibar,Daresaalam,Mwanza,Arusha,Kilimanjaro who have aircrafts ranging from 10,12,18,37 seater for any charter services ranging from, Air Ambulance Flights,Scenic Flights,Helicopter Safaris,V.I.P Executive Jet Flights,Cargo & Freight Flights,Aerial Survey & Photography Flights,Sight Seeing Safaris, Photographic Flights. There are Private Executive Jet for bussiness executives and long haul flights .The Bravo 550 Citation 7 seater with conference room,fully equipped with all refreshments including breakfast,snacks,hot lunches,champagne,hot and soft drinks with a flight attendant and with DVD and Television and statellite phones .These makes you work while enroute and even hold meetings and you are more relaxed and even able to be be more productive than being in office as nobody will interrrupt you and no calls to attend to. These Private Charter companies also have emergency & medical evacuation flights in place incase of any eventuality using the Beechcraft 1900 ,Superkingair 200 ,Citation Bravo 550,Helicopter AS350 to the nearest Hospital which is well equipped with modern medical facilities which will match the patients situation.Air Ambulance supplements in rescue of lives of critical patients who need quick medical attention thus the need to equip the aircrfats with Oxygen ,Stretcher.medical equipments,medical personnel to attend to the patient enroute to the hospital with those facilities.Also for cargo transportation and freight can also be done as the freighter aircrafts are available with the customers needs.There are aircrafts ranging from 250 kilos to 10 tonnes for cargo flights.

For Aerial Survey & Photography the Cessna C-208 Caravan 12 seater,C-206 3 seater single engine aircrafts you can be able to survey the Oldonyo Lengai,Ngorongoro crater,Mount Meru,Mount Kilimanjaro as this aircrafts have been built and the door can be removed for this purpose.The Cessna C-208 Caravan can take only 10 people as seats will be removed to create room for Cameras and the movement to enable take Video .The charge is done on a hourly basis and it will depend on how many hours you intent to do the aerial survey photography plus the flights time to and from base.There are also helicopter flights for this purpose and the reservations has to be done 2 month in advance and only for 2 to 5 passengers as they are scarce.

Scenic Flights can be done using Private Charters as scheduled flights are run on scheduled and they dont have time for you to be able to ask questions and know the geographical features enroute to your destination.With private charter the pilot will ensure whenever he/she approaches a geographical feature he will brief you and on approach he/she will alert you so that you can take a photograph as there is no hurry and he/she is there purposely for you and not anybody else.

Fishing Safaris you can go to,Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia Islands,Daresaalam which are on the Coastal Strip.There are beaches where you can go burst and even do Boat Riding Safaris and Dhow.

You can charter Direct Private flights from Tanzania point of entry/exit that is Daresaalam,Mwanza,Musoma,Kilimanjaro,Zanzibar to Kenyan National Parks or from Kenyan National Parks to Kilimanjaro,Musoma,Daresaalam,Mwanza,Zanzibar to avoid stop-overs and several landings and takeoffs.All you need is to give a notice of 4 working days notice then you will have immigration and customs officers in any of the Kenyan National Parks waiting to provide you with entry visas at you time or arrival or departure what a deal!!!!

While in Tanzania you can visit Lobo,Lake Manyara,Maji Moto,Ngurumeti,Sasakwa,Ngorongoro Crater,Kleins Camp,Seronera,Ndutu,Kogatende,Pemba Island,Mafia Island,Zanzibar by Private executive Jet or Helicopter anytime that you need to fly there.The Private Charter companies have their operations office open 24/7 aday ready to work out a logistics or qoutation instantly irrespective of day and time.

It will be at your discreation and also depending on your budget and schedule to chose which air transport model to use , scheduled or non-schedule into any part of Tanzania.

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Anthony Juma is the Editor and Senior Aviation Director at Wings Over Africa Aviation.
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