Literally today, several passengers flocked to Maputo's "de Mavalane" International Airport at dawn to wait for flights that had been scheduled and/or postponed until the late hours of the afternoon. People quoted by STV said that they went there before the rooster crowed in the hope of not missing their flights. In fact, this was a strategy to avoid...
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LAM carried fewer passengers than expected in the first half of the year
The number of passengers transported by Mozambique Airlines (LAM), the national flag carrier, has fallen short of the desired number to be transported this year, according to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Américo Muchanga. LAM intends to transport around one million passengers by the end of the year. As he explained in a brief...
Video: LAM recharges aircraft battery with passengers on board
It's yet another feat by Mozambique Airlines (LAM), the national flag carrier. This time, it comes from Nampula. The fact is that on Monday morning (19), one of the company's aircraft recharged its battery with passengers on board. This fact came to the attention of MZNews this morning via a video...
Maputo: Passenger bus catches fire on the move
A public transport bus caught fire while on the move on Monday morning (29), in Praça do Destacamento Feminino, in the city of Maputo. At the time of the incident, the bus was on its way to downtown and dozens of people were on board. There are no reports of human casualties. Quoted by Miramar,...
The old problem: LAM detains 300 passengers in Lisbon for more than 48 hours
Passengers scheduled to travel to Mozambique were stranded for two days at Lisbon International Airport in Portugal, creating agony and chaos at the airport. According to the newspaper "O País", the Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) flight was due to leave at 7pm on Tuesday (23) but it wasn't until yesterday afternoon that...
LAM debts leave passengers stranded in Lisbon
The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Esperança Bias, and the national soccer team, the Mambas, were stranded in Lisbon last Wednesday due to debts owed by the company Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) to the Portuguese company Euro-Atlantic Airways (EAA). According to this week's edition of the Savana newspaper, LAM had to find...
Maputo introduces electric passenger transport
The city of Maputo should have 300 electric vehicles from the MetroBus company for passenger transport later this year. The company is transitioning from using diesel vehicles to electric ones, with greenhouse gas emissions limited to zero. In fact, the company signed a...
LAM plane breaks down in Tete
The Bombardier Q400 aircraft, operated by Mozambique Airlines, has been on the ground since yesterday evening at Chingodzi International Airport in the city of Tete, following a breakdown that prevented it from taking off for Maputo. A company source contacted by MZNews told us that the plane should have left at...
More than one million passengers have traveled to Maputo International Airport
Maputo International Airport has received more than one million passengers this year, a figure that was last reached in the period before the Covid-19 pandemic. The Director of Operations at the company, José Candrinho, considers the record number of passengers after the pandemic period to be satisfactory, but warns of more challenges for the institution....
Passengers from Mozambique arrested in Hong Kong with 33.5 kg of drugs
Hong Kong police announced on Saturday night that they had arrested two passengers who flew from Mozambique to the Chinese region with 33.5 kilos of methamphetamine, worth 1.9 million euros. In a statement, Hong Kong Customs revealed, quoted by Notícias ao Minuto, that on Friday they detected a man...