Like other counterparts on the continent, the state-owned airline Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) is bankrupt and almost inoperable, maintaining itself only due to successive financial injections from the State Budget. The crisis in the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic made many companies unsustainable, given the accumulated losses.

LAM's mismanagement compromised the company's viability to the point that Mozambique was left without domestic flights, on 05.DEC, as a result of mechanical problems in the company's entire fleet, consisting of a Boeing 737 and three Embraer Q - 400s, all rented. READ MORE