Your free in-fl ight magazine Issue 02 March 2013 - May 2013 travelsmart Smart Thinking Smart Shopping Smart Travel PRODUCT REVIEW Is Apple’s eye-catching tablet worth the extra money? © Apple Inc. ANGEL EATON Angel’s driving ambition to inspire young sportswomen MAFIA CONNECTION This sleepy Swahili paradise has got it all BIG BROTHER AFRICA A force for good Taking off across Africa Transforming African travel COMORES FOOTBALL Soccer brothers with stars in their eyes travelsmart IN THIS ISSUE Contents Issue 02 March 2013 - May 2013 REGULAR FEATURES SPECIAL FEATURES 8 3 WELCOME 8 BIG BROTHER AFRICA A message from fastjet Chief Executive A force for good in Africa 6 FASTJET NEWS 12 ANGEL EATON Angel’s driving ambition to inspire young 21 FOOD FOR THOUGHT sportswomen A magical voyage of gastronomic discovery 16 COMORES FOOTBALL 23 PRODUCT REVIEW Soccer brothers with stars in their eyes 12 Is Apple’s eye-catching tablet worth the extra money? 18 MAFIA CONNECTION This sleepy Swahili paradise has got it all 24 LATEST RELEASES What’s new in your bookshop and cinema 26 NGAMBA CHIMPS Island sanctuary for chimps is an 29 KIDS’ CORNER unforgettable trip 30 A319 32 CITY GUIDE fastjet’s workhorse aircraft Prepare to be enthralled by modern, magical Johannesburg 34 TURNING JAPANESE What a diff erence a makeover can make… USEFUL INFORMATION 37 THE FASTJET NETWORK 38 TRAVEL INFORMATION 40 FASTJET FLEET 40 FASTJET CONTACTS 18 travelsmart Smart Thinking Smart Shopping Smart Travel Published by on behalf of LanD & MarIne PUBLIcaTIOnS LTD 26 1 Kings Court, Newcomen Way Severalls Business Park, Colchester Essex CO4 9RA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1206 752902, Fax: +44 (0)1206 842958 Registered Offi ce and Head Offi ce Email: [email protected] Suite 2C, First Point, Buckingham Gate www.landmarine.com Gatwick Airport, RH6 0NT Telephone: 020 3651 6355 Email: [email protected] The opinions expressed in this publication are not www.fastjet.com necessarily those of the editor, or any other organisation associated with this publication. No liability can be accepted for any inaccuracies or omissions. ©2013 Land & Marine Publications (Kenya) Ltd travelsmart 1 welcome A message from fastjet Chief Executive Ed Winter Our value-fOr-mOney service is Off tO a great start aribu kwenye Ndegeyetu. I would like to give you my Kpersonal welcome on board fastjet, Africa’s newest airline. Our first few months of operations from Dar es Salaam have certainly shown the demand for reliable and low-cost air travel. In the first months of operation we flew around 75,000 people on flights between Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro and Mwanza. That meant that our aircraft were 79 per cent full. That is quite an achievement for the first month. Those people who booked early were rewarded For far too long, airline passengers in Africa have had to endure unreliable services. fastjet is changing all that, giving you an airline that operates to international standards and provides the levels of service and reliability you deserve. with really low fares; 43 per cent of our passengers in December paid just US$20 plus taxes. We lived up to our promise of reliability; we flew the month with no cancelled flights and an ontime performance of 99.7 per cent. Our customers have ranged from businessmen and politicians to traders, travelsmart 3 welcome Your free in-flight magazine Issue 02 March 2013 - May 2013 travelsmart Smart Thinking Smart Shopping Smart Travel PROduCT REvIEw Is Apple’s eye-catching tablet worth the extra money? IN THIS ISSUE WE LOOK AT THE © Apple Inc. AnGEl EATOn Angel’s driving ambition to LIGHTER SIDE OF inspire young sportswomen MAFIA COnnECTIOn This sleepy Swahili paradise has got it all AFRICAN LIFE BIG BROTHER AFRICA A force for good Welcome to the second edition of Travelsmart Taking off – fastjet’s infl ight magazine. across Africa This second edition of Travelsmart follows Transforming African travel COMORES FOOTBAll Soccer brothers with stars in their eyes the launch in november 2012 of the magazine’s fi rst issue, which was produced to coincide with people connecting with friends and family smart people who get things right fi rst the new airline’s fi rst fl ights from Dar es Salaam. and, in fact, many people who have never time. We charge you only for the things Three months or so on from that historic fl own before. Instead of taking a day you want; most airlines charge everyone inaugural fl ight, fastjet has achieved what it or two travelling by bus to see family in for food, drink, baggage, lounges, set out to do – that is, to change the face of africa’s aviation sector by off ering aff ordable, Mwanza, people have been taking a short, frequent fl yer clubs, etc whether you safe and reliable travel. comfortable and reliable fl ight on fastjet. want them or not. We let you choose what now, as Issue 2 is published, fastjet is poised Since the start of 2013 we have been you want and only pay for what you want, for the second stage in its development busy getting permission to launch fl ights thus keeping costs low. But low cost does as it adds a select range of international to many regional destinations from Dar not have to mean low quality. I hope you destinations to its route network. es Salaam. We are also looking at further will all leave this fl ight really surprised at Travelsmart, too comes of age with this bases from which to launch fl ights, the quality and value for money off ered second edition as the magazine takes a jaunty fulfi lling our vision of becoming a truly by fastjet. view of what’s new and interesting in eastern pan-african low-cost airline. Make sure and southern africa. International standards you register at fastjet.com to be among for good or ill, a new Big Brother africa will the fi rst to hear about new routes and for far too long, airline passengers in soon be upon us. Travelsmart looks ahead special off ers. also follow fastjet on africa have had to endure unreliable too and asks whether this season can match Twitter or ‘like us’ on facebook to see services. fastjet is changing all that the drama, the manipulative psychology and up-to-the-minute commentary from our giving you an airline that operates to clever innovation of earlier series. customers. international standards and provides In what is our home patch of Tanzania, we We will continue to off er lots of really the levels of service and reliability take a trip to delightful Mafi a Island, profi le the low fares – as low as US$20 one way you deserve. In our initial months of up-and-coming woman golfer angel eaton (excluding government taxes and airport operation, the team here at fastjet and review the Bella napoli restaurant in Dar. charges) for those customers who book have shown that we can deliver on that further afi eld, there are chimpanzees in early. at the moment, average fares for promise. Uganda, footballers in the comores and we test drive the new Honda crV. african regional passengers are four times Whether you are a fi rst-time fl yer or a I hope you enjoy reading this issue of more expensive than those enjoyed by regular air traveller, on business, visiting Travelsmart and I very much welcome any european airline customers. at fastjet, we friends or relatives or a tourist, thank-you comments from passengers. intend to change that and make air travel for fl ying withfastjet . If you enjoyed your aff ordable to many more people. We will fl ight, tell all your friends; if you think we gary gimson Publisher be the people’s champion, democratising can do something better, please let me air travel. know. LOOK OUT Effi ciency Yours sincerely FOR... for those of you not familiar with how Angel Eaton: Driving low-cost airlines work, let me give you a ambition of a young short explanation. We make sure that we sportswoman inspiring a generation (Page 12) use all of our assets – aircraft, equipment ed Winter and people – really effi ciently. We employ chief executive Offi cer travelsmart 5 fastjetnews East Africa’s favourite airline – fastjet 11th February, 2013 WHY MR GREY IS KING NewsDesk OF THE HIGH FLIERS When fastjet was born, we wanted not only to deliver the most reliable service in africa but also to create its most engaging airline. Mr grey, our mascot, represents both the continent’s incredibly diverse wildlife and the sense of fun and adventure that we believe fl ying should be. We are amazed how our fl ying model and brand has been embraced and in just two months we have become east africa’s favourite airline – at least, according to facebook. We regularly receive feedback and support from over 36,000 fans who talk to us on a daily basis. Thank-you! Kilimanjaro Marathon – 3rd March, 2013 CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN – TILL YOU FIND YOUR DREAM Like a marathon, launching a new airline takes an incredible amount of SO PROUD OF OUR preparation; and that is why we at fastjet were very excited to be able to NEW MASAI PILOT sponsor this year’s event at Kilimanjaro. The gruelling 26-mile run departs To underpin ‘Smart Travel’ we are always on the from Moshi Stadium heading along the main road to Dar es Salaam before look-out for the best fl ight crew and pilots to fl y our the steady incline towards Mweka, via Moshi Town.