The restructuring of Mozambique Airlines (LAM) is a process that will involve reducing the workforce, but this must be sensitive to the impact on the lives of the people who will be affected.

“The most important thing in reforming LAM is to focus on the end result. This process is difficult because it involves cutting people, and they have families. People are not machines, and we also have to be sensitive enough to see that, but we also can't keep people because the company has to be sustainable,” he said.

This is the position of the Minister for Transport and Logistics, João Matlombe, expressed yesterday in the city of Beira, Sofala province, on the sidelines of the handover of 22 vehicles for road inspection. 

“We're doing our job, but we're aware that we have to treat people humanely. That's our main concern in relation to the LAM reform,” said the Minister.

Matlombe told journalists that his sector is satisfied with the current performance of the staff and the new state shareholders in the management of LAM.

“We would obviously have liked to have given more space, but given the complexity of the process, obviously not yet. But we've improved a lot from the point of view of services and punctuality,” he said.

Regarding the vehicles, which cost 33 million meticais and were delivered to INATRO, the minister said that the aim was to strengthen traffic enforcement in the central and northern regions of the country.