Air Zimbabwe is tottering on the brink of extinction, its future not made any more promising by the arrival of Emirates with flights between Dubai and Harare five times a week.
Crippling debts, and fears that its aircraft will be impounded overseas for non-payment of debts, has reduced the airline to a shadow of its former self.
This week Zimbabwe tourism and hospitality industry minister Walter Mzembi said the government should sort out the financial mess in Air Zimbabwe ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation general assembly, to be held in Victoria Falls in August next year.
The minister said the arrival of Emirates was a wake up call for Air Zimbabwe which used to compete with more than 45 airlines that operated in Harare in the 1990s.
