Scores of well-placed sources within the company, including senior pilots and junior staff who have repeatedly talked to this paper separately, said they knew their days at ATCL were over and they were just waiting for official notification to confirm their worst fears. They said the decision to proceed with the staff ‘pruning’ exercise was reached late Tuesday after a daylong consultative meeting in Dar es Salaam between the ATCL management and officials from the firm’s parent ministry - Infrastructure Development.
Shirika la Ndege nchini, ATC limelaumiwa kwa kufanya kitendo cha aibu ya mwaka kwa kuwasotesha kwa wiki nzima mahujaji zaidi ya 300 ambao wameshakamilisha taratibu zote za safari. Aidha, Shirika hilo limetakiwa kuwalipa fidia mahujaji hao kutokana na gharama walizoingia mara kadhaa wakati wakifika uwanjani hapo ili wasafiri, na kisha kuishiwa kupewa kauli za ‘njooni kesho, rudini kesho kutwa.