Mozambican airline Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) today warned of the rescheduling of company flights due to the occasional overhaul of the Boeing 737-700, its largest aircraft.
“Due to this fact, which translates into a reduction in fleet capacity, some of the company’s flights are being rescheduled,” said LAM in a statement sent to the media.
The Mozambican flag carrier apologises for the “inconvenience that the rescheduling of flights is causing”.
LAM operates 12 destinations on the domestic market, regionally it flies regularly to Johannesburg, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Lusaka and Cape Town, and Lisbon is its only intercontinental destination.
On Wednesday, LAM’s Board of Directors chose Américo Muchanga as the company’s chairman, replacing Theunis Christian de Klerk Crous, who had held the position on an interim basis since February, as part of the removal of João Carlos Pó Jorge and the company’s restructuring process, which is being carried out by Fly Modern Ark (FMA), the South African company hired to recover LAM.
FMA has been managing LAM since April last year, with a restructuring plan underway.
The company’s revitalisation strategy follows years of operational problems related to a reduced fleet and a lack of investment, with a record of some incidents, not fatal, associated by experts with poor aircraft maintenance.
During the period of FMA’s management, the South African company denounced schemes to embezzle money at LAM, with losses of almost three million euros, in ticket shops, through automatic payment terminal machines (TPA/POS) that do not belong to the company.
Mozambique’s Central Office for Combating Corruption (GCCC) has opened a case to investigate alleged corruption schemes in the sale of tickets by the Mozambican airline and in the management of the company’s fleet.
Lusa