“It’s been going on for a while, we have been discussing it for almost five years. So, now, we’re really at the tail-end of it,” Makolo told the Financial Times. Senior executives close to the negotiations expect the “execution” of the agreement to happen as early as July.
Qatar Airways declined to comment. Last month its new chief executive Badr Mohammed Al Meer said his company was “at the final stage” of investing in an “airline in the southern part of Africa” as he looks to expand the fleets of its partner airlines to improve regional connectivity.
