Spurned Air Botswana dolls up for new suitors

On the business case alone, it appeared to be a match made in heaven.  Air Botswana, the struggling national airline running hundreds of millions of pula in losses annually, would have piggy-backed on the whirlwind success of Wilderness Air in a homebrewed deal, glistening with patriotic pride.

To hear Transport Minister, Kitso Mokaila say it, Wilderness Air would have fit perfectly into the laid down plans to strengthen Air Botswana’s most profitable routes, which are the flights into tourism hotspots.  In addition, Wilderness Air’s smaller craft would have been ideal for carving out bespoke tourist routes to further leverage the national airline’s push for profitability.