{"id":269248,"date":"2019-06-12T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269248"},"modified":"2019-06-12T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:53:42","slug":"nac-cancels-air-namibia-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269248","title":{"rendered":"NAC cancels Air Namibia contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_5\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<br \/>\nTHE Namibian Airports Company is about to call for national bidding process to appoint a new ground handling service provider at the Hosea Kutako Internationl Airport after it cancelled the contract with Air Namibia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269256\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/62337090_2289570267776587_3099976264606285824_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269256\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/62337090_2289570267776587_3099976264606285824_n-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/62337090_2289570267776587_3099976264606285824_n-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/62337090_2289570267776587_3099976264606285824_n-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/62337090_2289570267776587_3099976264606285824_n.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: NAC Chief Executive Director, Bisey \/Uirab. Photo: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer Bisey \/Uirab in a letter informed the national airline that it needs to settle its account with the NAC before the exit date that was set for 1 November this year. In the letter dated 22 May, \/Uirab stated that Air Namibia has six months from 1 June 2019 to vacate and cease operations as a ground handler at the airport after the agreement between the two stationed enterprises \u2013expired at the end of October last year.<br \/>\n\/Uirab stated in the letter that the NAC observed non-compliance with regard to payment of the consideration fee as per the agreement and as such, the airline\u2019s account has constantly reflected arrears over the years.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NAC will call for a national bidding process for ground handling services in due course. You are more than welcome to participate in the competitive bidding process to be advertised in local print media,\u201d \/Uirab said in the letter.<br \/>\nThe decision not to renew the contract besides the money outstanding to the NAC also entails Air Namibia\u2019s failure to comply with certain clauses in the ground handling agreement with the NAC despite several demands for performance in this regard. The letter did not state what the specific clauses in the agreement entailed.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the national airline has also suspended all flights between Windhoek and Luanda and several daily flights to Johannesburg and Cape Town after three of its Airbus A319 aircrafts were seized in South Africa and Cyprus due to unpaid accounts for maintenance work done on its rented aircraft.<br \/>\nThe national airline currently has only one of the Airbus A319 aircraft servicing all the flights between South Africa and Namibia causing delays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268390\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Baby-and-Kids-Emporium-728x180px-June.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Baby-and-Kids-Emporium-728x180px-June.png 728w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Baby-and-Kids-Emporium-728x180px-June-300x74.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9 THE Namibian Airports Company is about to call for national bidding process to appoint a new ground handling service provider at the Hosea Kutako Internationl Airport after it cancelled the contract with Air Namibia. Chief Executive Officer Bisey \/Uirab in a letter informed the national airline that it needs to settle its account &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":269255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAC cancels Air Namibia contract - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Namibian Airports Company is about to call for national bidding process to appoint a new ground handling service provider at the Hosea Kutako Internationl Airport after it cancelled the contract with Air Namibia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269248\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAC cancels Air Namibia contract - 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