Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says the party is planning to revive a national airline for Namibia.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said this during the launch of Swapo’s manifesto over the past weekend.
“We will revive the national airline under very well thought out strategies to avoid pitfalls of the past,” she said.
According to Nandi-Ndaitwah, the party will also upgrade Hosea Kutako International Airport and airports at Katima Mulilo and Rundu, and conduct a feasibility study for the upgrading of Keetmanshoop Airport.
The Namibian reported in the past that the government was to spend around N$300 million to pay the salaries of Air Namibia employees who stayed at home while the airline was shut down in early 2021.
Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi said at the time of Air Namibia’s liquidation that the airline’s assets were valued at N$981 million in August 2020, while it had liabilities of N$3 billion.
The closure of the national airline marked the end of an institution that gobbled up N$11 billion in government bailouts over the course of two decades.