fastjet has won the title of Africa’s Leading Low-Cost Airline at the 23rd annual World Travel Awards ceremony held in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
The globally-recognized World Travel Awards was instituted to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry.
The title of Africa’s Leading Low-Cost Airline, which is voted for by travel and tourism professionals and consumers worldwide, is in recognition of fastjet’s endeavours to make air travel more affordable, safe and reliable across its pan-African network.
“Being recognized and assigned this award reflects not only our commitment to air-travel excellence, but also the impact we endeavour to make on the African continent,” says Jai Gilbert, head of marketing at fastjet.
“We are immensely proud to receive such high industry recognition and fastjet will continue to make low-cost air-travel accessible to more people on the African continent.”
fastjet anticipates that many of the passengers on the routes it services will be first-time flyers who could previously not afford to travel by air because of prohibitively high fares,
Recent research undertaken by the airline supports this assumption, revealing that up to 40 per cent of passengers on all routes were able to afford air travel for the first time, thanks to fastjet’s low fares.
John Corse, general manager at fastjet, centre, collects the trophy from World Travel Awards senior vice president Chris Frost in Zanzibar
