Proflight Boeing 737 launch and maiden flight in pictures

1. Nakumbwako akasuba mwee!! KR250 each way thats more like it; time saver mwe.

   • Unbelievable, I just sent money to my oldest brother, tabaninapo ndeke sure. I tried to buy online ticket and surprise him but Proflight isn’t offering that service yet.
     KABIMBA, MUTEMBO & Mmembe will hang themselves for their stolen money they failed to run an airline.
     Unfortunately and only bad coincidence ProFlight is abbriv s P.F. So spoiling forfakisake.

2. Awesome !!! Elyashi ili bane.Awe kwena nomba twakulaendafye ubwana lale.Epashili pakuleka bane.

3. This is good, but are these new or refurbished aircraft?

   • The Boeing 737-200 is a 1968 model , hence those being run by proflight are refurbished, the new 737 next generation comprise of 600, 700, 800, 900ER

4. Why all the women very fat? 🙂

   • Naine nindabwa muntu wandi.

   • Naine nicimene nidabwa bwana…

   • buti kwena mulinkoko ba mambala imwe, all these guys are fat sure? i can only see about 4-5 big women in the picture. and the rest are actually small sized women and dont even bring the arguement of saying it depends on what you consider to be big or small. fact is they are not all fat. why do you always want to bring down your own kind. am sure imbeciles like you prefer white women if you are not already married to them.

   • Uli Chipuba iwe weni atase.so what if they are fat,as long as they got a job…limbi u are a sick thin person so wakumbwa ukwena…for u yourself kanti pantu kanapulika!!!!

   • Silly ones never get jobs in Zambia, they are called destitute and kamushi. A fat in Zambia mean “educated” or “rich”. On fat people get promoted.
     They even ask ati “when did you graduate, because namwina mwee”.

5. This is good. Not those small 12 passenger things they had. The fares look fair as well.

   • COMPARE SOLWEZI-L/STONE AND LSK-CHIPATA. THATS A RAW DEAL FOR EASTERN PROVINCE COZ THERE IS ONLY A DIFFERENCE OF K20 AND TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE TRIP DISTANCES OF BOTH TRIPS

6. This is a better aircraft than those crop dusters

   keep it up

7. So will have people like Ndobo condeming the move, saying its a waste of money.. Katwisha mwabashani mwebantu imwe. This so nice, now i can plan my vacation to Northern Province and watch the sunset with my beautiful girl at the banks of Lake tanganyika on a Friday, then fly back to Lsk in time for some dancing on Saturday. Ni down.. Chi Ndobo uichindike

8. This couldn’t come at a better time when our roads are so treacherous.Its better to fly mwe.

9. thanks to HH for having shares in pfofright..HH is the real man.

   • CORRECTION – HH does not have shares in PROFLIGHT. ITS A POLITICAL PARTY , ITS JUST A COMPANY ACCOMMODATING EVERYONE!!

10. Almost £85 to Chipata for a one-way ticket… flying ain’t cheap within Zambia…I would fly all over Europe with that amount of money on a budget airline. If I were to launch an airline company in Zambia I would rid off most luxuries and adopt a low-cost carrier business model (a lower operating cost structure). To make up for revenue lost in decreased ticket prices, my airline would charge for extras like food, alcohol, priority boarding, seat allocating, and baggage etc.
    Gov’t should focus solely on airport infrastructural revamping/expansion and reducing the costs of flying for local private airlines like Proflight within Zambia to encourage local tourism. Banish any thought of creating a national airline with taxpayer’s money.

    • And with what money do you think Government can do all that??? Coz you are the same people crying over the removal of subsidies

    • I support fully the removal of subsidies in fact in relation to Jet fuel the commercial sector was benefiting massively from it at our expense….imagine this we were subsidising rich foreign airline’s fuel for likes of KLM, Emirates and BA.
      Where do you think the gov’t is going to get US$520 million to construct the new-look Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport just approved by Parley? From the selfsame fiscal space left by the removal of subsidies.

    • Iwe what about the cost of fuel. the prices are ok given that they need to recover the initial capital investment and they do not have any competitors at the moment in Zed. We want this airline to work i wish them all the best but they should paint the flag on the tail when they are successful

    • if only a lot of pipo could think this way…..big up jay jay

11. Sad,so sad indeed! Zambia Airways had this type of aircraft from the early eighties and yet here we are treating it as a big deal. Even Zambezi Airlines had a more modern 737. Ethiopian Airlines, that airline from that confused state, has just taken delivery of the B787 dreamliner and we are still fussing about a 737-200.Also, isn’t some sort of underutilising this aircraft by just using it on local short trips, why not include JHB and Dar for a start?

    • Invest in the company then it will be able fly to Jo’Burg.

    • You are asking why everyone gets excited except you? It is because they realise that is an upgrade on the ProFlight fleet. But some of you are retards such that you cannot notice the difference.

12. These are decommissioned aircrafts where they come from. This so called new plane is simply salaula and for that reason a danger to the safety of Zambian passengers. I know what I am talking about. Look at the state of the interior of the planes that British airways or Emirates use on Zambian routes compared to those that operate trans-Atlantic – UK to New York for example. I have seen the difference as I often take these routes. The people who sale these planes to us are simply saying, “here, go hang yourself but don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Maybe some people have forgotten but some of us haven’t recovered from the shock of the Gabon Disaster. We can do better than this. Stop buying planes on Salaula.

    • Most small airlines do not buy air-crafts they lease them even the big airline companies like BA, KLM have leased air-crafts in their fleets at high peaks. The problem you people is that you think that running an airline is similar to running a Lusaka to Ndola bus company. This is the selfsame reason you are calling for a state owned national airline as you have no concept whatsoever of how expensive it is.
      Wake up!!

    • Domestic planes and international planes tend to be different my friend. I fly domestic within the US like every other week. The planes are deplorable on even the biggest airlines (American Airlines, Delta US Airlines etc). The only ones that are fairly decent and NEW are Virgin America. So I am not buying your argument based on your comparison between International flights and domestic Zambian flights.

13. To the airline owners, please don’t involve yourselves into politics

14. Congratulations. Next time I am in Zambia, I will go to Livingstone on Proflight Zambia. Improves travel within Zambia. Can PF boast of Proflight Zambia, creating jobs.

    • Northerner please spare us bu fontini. Pro-flight has been there for ages. PF was not even a thought in President Satas mind when proflight first flew.

15. Regardless, it is a step forward, this is what the company can afford at the present moment. A lot of haters commenting on here. I think this is a story we can all agree is moving us forward no matter how little that movement may be.

16. Imwe all these officials just to look at an aircraft? No wonder Zambia is a mess.

    • Walasa mwaiche!

17. Who owns Proflight fimofimo?

    • Some of the shareholders are the Irwin brothers of Zambeef.

18. “The ‘obsolete’ version Boeing 737-200 has either been banned or phased out in many countries of the world.It includes the United States, while the EU has banned many airlines from Africa and Asia, which still use this aircraft”. Can the govt and national airports look into this very seriously.

19. CONGRATULATIONS, WELL DONE THOUGH COLORS REPRESENT NOTHING ABOUT ZAMBIA. NEVERTHELESS WE SALUTE YOU?? GOOD DEVELOPMENT & KEEP UP.

20. why is a flight to livingtone from solwezi cheaper than a flight from lusaka to chipata?
    PLEASE REDUCE THE FARE TO CHIPATA FROM THE CURRENT K700 TO SOMETHING ELSE COZ SLW TO LSTNONE IS K720

    • just look at what is in livingstone and in chipata as destinations.

21. Ba mambala mupanga chongo. There’s no need to invest in a 787 considering the routes serviced by Proflight. This is a sensible small airline. You quacks better lay off and continue wiping bums

22. Whoa! the launch of one obsolete aircraft attracts big headlines in Zambia? We that poor really?

23. Why are the lovely zambian women suddenly becoming fat,just wondering.

    • Kentucky fried chicken, pizza Hut and Mcdonalds.

    • Why are all these women wearing minis? Are they even married I wonder? Or maybe it is a marketing strategy?

24. Nothing to celebrate about…A B737-200 is very very old airplane 1968 or so. Zambezi airline had a B737-500 and the ‘late’ Zambia Airways had B737-200A(advanced).

25. ba Infidels Baghdad Zulu i am sure you drive a second hand car from japan. that’s the way it is. A new plane costs an arm and a leg, just like a new car so what do you do? You buy second hand ha ha ha

26. ka chief mukuni ukutemwa ifya kukwela kwela,nakambi kakanye,this tym nimu ndeke,chawamafye the plain never took off paaaantu!!!

    • Iwe ubututu te Plain ni Plane! mwaba shani mwe bena Zambia? bushe tamwabelengele abena Pindani and Welengani? atase!

27. Zambia Airways and Zambezi Airlines didnt ‘have’ this type of aircraft as is being stated by most bloggers. I even doubt whether proflight own the plane reported on here. Our reporters dont dig enough. Zambia Airways used leased jets except for a few Hawker Siddeleys. Proflight most likely have had this one leased to them

    • Veli Tulu!

    • Zambia Airways did have a Boeing 737-200 as well as a Bac 1-11, hawker siddley 748s and B720. I know because I flew on all of them and have a picture of the 737-200.

      Good Luck to Pro flight

28. Someone please connect me to that Tonga beauty on picture 11 Napapata pulizi imwe bantu!!

    • I can connect u ma brada. But I need a downpayment Da equivalent of 4 cattle

    • U sure? This is not a 419? I will pay

    • I’m a Tonga. We don’t do 419 Just bring da money Gwen

29. Thats good Proflight, at least you can return those noisy ram shackles of planes you have.

30. Wonderful to see! Proflight, a Zambian success story, owned by Zambians! Why are people are leaving negative comments? you should be encouraging and supporting Zambian owned Companies, and whats more, there are no politics involved!!

31. arv that y the are fat

32. I hope this company Proflight fails so that my company (still in the birth stages) can fill the void and my Zamani airlines can copmete with those two east african giants.

33. this is what we should be celebrating. don’t listen to those who don’t want us to have our own national airline. kk airport need grass to be cut. do these guys have anything to cut grass with?#31 your vision will die with you.

34. Well done ProFlight Airlines,nice to see a homegrown zambian success as the corporate scene in zed has been a litany of foreign entities.

    # 31 keep dreaming,you probably don’t even have a decent car or a hse of your own.

35. If you look at the cabin pictures of the plane, you may get a clue about its origin (whether purchased or leased) There is the word ‘SALIDA’ next to ‘EXIT’. Salida is exit in Spanish.

36. Go regional- there is money on low-cost flights between Lusaka and Joburg.

37. this is the end of Proflight. Zambian Airways was doing well before the 737-200 just like Zambezi Airlines. So Proflight will use all the money from the small planes to pay the South African Leassor until they are broke. Give them 8 months.

38. Proflight says this plane is on lease until December, after which they will get a 300 series of this aircraft. Not sure whether they will lease or buy, but it’s an upgrade for them.

39. 737-200s where built in the 1960s and if you do research most of these planes are either grounded or parked for the scrap heap..I’m just saying..

40. Congraturation to proflight, Capt. Lemba inspirs me alot, how I dream and hope to work for the proflight company.

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