Kampala – Yayin da gasar daukar sararin samaniyar Afirka ta wasu kamfanonin jiragen sama na yankin ke ci gaba da tafiya zuwa manyan jiragen sama, Fly540, wani kamfanin jirgin saman gabashin Afirka da ke da kwarin gwiwa, ya sanya kansa ya dauki kamfanonin jiragen sama na nahiyar.
Fly540 jirgin sama ne na Kenya wanda ya zama mai aiki na uku a hanyar Entebbe-Nairobi a watan Fabrairu.
Jirgin dai ya tashi ne da jirage masu rahusa idan aka kwatanta da Kenya Airways da Air Uganda, wadanda suka bi hanyar kafin shigarsa.
Yanzu, Fly 540 ta yi alkawarin tsawaita hidimomi, zuwa wasu yankunan Afirka da ke da burin zama jirgin sama na farko na kasafin kudin Afirka.
Ms Jackie Arkle, manajan tallace-tallace, ta shaida wa Business Power a wata hira kwanan nan cewa Fly540 a karkashin alamar kasuwanci ta 530 na jiragen sama na kokarin zama kamfanin jirgin sama na farko mai rahusa mai hidima a Afirka.
Kamfanin jirgin ya fara tashi ne ta hanyar shimfida fikafikansa zuwa kasar Uganda, bayan da ya kafa kasa baki daya a kasar Kenya kuma zai kara yada su zuwa Tanzaniya. Garin Mwanza na Arewacin kasar zai kasance wurin farko, a Tanzaniya yana bude wani jirgin ruwa mai sauki ga masu yawon bude ido da 'yan kasuwa da ke tafiya tsakanin Kenya da Tanzaniya.
“Mwanza na farko saboda akwai tafiye-tafiyen kasuwanci da yawa a wurin. Yawan zirga-zirgar yana da nauyi sosai kuma saboda mutane suna yawan shawagi, kuma don yin hakan, suma suna buƙatar ajiyewa."
A cewar Ms Arkle, shirin shi ne ƙaura zuwa Tanzaniya a watan Oktoba sannan a ƙara Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Moshi, da Kilimanjaro kafin zuwa Angola. "A yanzu mun sani, zai kasance Nairobi-Mwanza, amma idan akwai kasuwa da kuma bukatar Entebbe-Mwanza, za mu yi la'akari da shi."
"Sa'an nan, za mu bude Kigali sannan mu nufi yammacin Afirka. Ghana za ta kasance cibiyar yankin yammacin Afirka. A Kudancin Afirka, za mu yi amfani da Angola a matsayin cibiyarmu, don haka za ta zama babban jirgin saman Afirka mai rahusa,” in ji Ms Arkle a ofishin kamfanin da ke Kampala, ta kara da cewa ofisoshinsu na Angola sun kusa shirya.
Kamfanin yana da burin zama kamfanin jirgin sama na farko na Afirka, wanda ke da cibiyoyi a cikin rudu uku a Afirka. “Muna so mu je wadannan kasuwanni, saboda babu wani jirgin sama na Pan-Afrika da kuma mai tsada, duk da haka mutane suna son samun wani jirgin da ba zai shiga cikin kasafin kudinsu ba amma ya ba su ayyukan da suke bukata. Don haka, mun dauki kwarin gwiwa za mu yi hakan,” in ji ta.
Fly540 yana gudanar da ayyukan da zai iya cimma wannan buri na tsawon shekaru takwas tare da cikakken goyon bayan Lonrho Afirka.
Lonrho wani kamfani ne na Afirka wanda ke da nau'ikan fayil daban-daban tun daga kayan aikin farko zuwa sufuri, sabis na tallafi, otal-otal da albarkatun ƙasa.
A shekara ta 2006, Lonrho ya mallaki kashi 49 cikin 1.5 na hannun jarin da aka bayar na kamfanin jirgin kan dalar Amurka miliyan 2.4 (ShsXNUMX biliyan).
An jera kamfanin a kan musayar hannayen jarin London da Johannesburg kuma yana da babban kasuwa da kadarorin da ya kai Fam miliyan 140, (Shs450 biliyan) da Fam miliyan 240 (kimanin Shs772 biliyan) bi da bi.
Wannan ƙwaƙƙwaran kuɗi ne kamfanin jirgin ke yin banki a kai don yada fikafikan sa a cikin yankin kudu da hamadar Sahara. Da take tsokaci game da ayyukan kamfanin na Uganda, Ms Arkle ta ce, bukatu na sabis na sufurin jiragen sama mai saukin kudi na kan hanyar zuwa sararin sama bayan da ya tashi sannu a hankali tsakanin Fabrairu zuwa Maris.
"Mun karbi tallace-tallace kuma ya zuwa yanzu, mun kwashe fasinjoji 7,000 tun lokacin da muka fara aiki a wannan hanya kuma yana karuwa a kowane wata," in ji ta.
An danganta wannan ci gaban ne sakamakon kokarin da kungiyoyin suka ninka na tallata ra'ayin kamfanonin jiragen sama na farashi mai sauki ga karin matafiya na Uganda a gundumomin Kampala da Jinja.
