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BA is currently the only European carrier that flies to Harare, with three flights a week leaving from Heathrow airport.
Although the airline insists that any decision will be for “commercial reasons” and not a boycott of President Robert Mugabe’s despotic regime, the step is likely to increase the isolation of the ruler.
It may also encourage other British businesses to review their links with Zimbabwe whose inflation is 6 592% for August. Shops also have no food, hospitals have no medicine and the average life expectancy is 37 for men and 34 for women.
The decision to axe flights will be a huge step for British Airways, which has been flying to Harare since the 1930s. The only gap in the service was between 1965 and 1979, when flights were suspended due to economic sanctions.
It is thought that those wishing to continue to fly to Zimbabwe will have to fly to
Johannesburg in South Africa and get a connecting flight with a BA franchise airline Comair. Passengers who have booked Harare flights with BA leaving from October onwards are likely to be contacted in the near future about making different arrangements- CAJ News.