Air Namibia

Economy Class: The movie and audio channels, as well as the selection of newspapers and magazines are bound to keep you entertained throughout the flight. The entire selection is, needless to say, available in English and German. Sit back, relax and enjoy the latest movies on circuit, classical music or the latest hits on the music scene, on all AIR NAMIBIA long range flights - needless to say with comfortable padded earphones and stereo quality sound. For all movies a German and English sound track is available. Air Namibia also carry a variety of English and German magazines and newspapers to cater for your reading pleasure.

About Air Namibia

Air Namibia links London Gatwick airport with Namibia, one of this year's hottest destinations.

Offering cheap airfares on flights three times a week to and from London Gatwick to its base airport, Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, the airline also operates flights from Windhoek to Frankfurt, South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Air Namibia offers cheap domestic flights from Eros Municipal Airport in Windhoek to Ondangwa, Katima Mulilo, Walvis Bay, Oranjemund and Luderitz too,so you are well connected wherever you want to fly to in Namibia.

Air Namibia is renowned for its great-value airfares and passengers can get the very cheapest by booking through Major Travel.

Hosea Kutako International Airport is located 45km east of Windhoek. The city can be reached in about half an hour from the airport via shuttle, taxi or car. The airport has one terminal, with facilities such as a bank, a post office, restaurant, bar, car rental and duty-free shop available for passengers to take advantage of before or after their flight.

Eros Airport is 5km south of Windhoek city centre and around 45km from Hosea Kutako. It also has restaurant facilities as well as taxi and car rental available.

As there is little time difference between Europe and Namibia, passengers on international flights arrive refreshed and do not have to worry about jetlag.

Aiming to provide safe, efficient and caring flights and to meet customer expectations, Air Namibia has won the Feather Award several times in recognition of its excellent customer service, awarded by the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA).

Staffs are trilingual, speaking English, German and Afrikaans, and aim to welcome passengers with typical African hospitality.

Air Namibia's economy class offers very cheap airfares and keeps its passengers entertained during the whole flight with a selection of magazines and newspapers, plus the latest movies and music hits. It also boasts the greatest seat pitch on any flight to southern Africa on its MD 11 aircraft.

Business class customers on Air Namibia flights can also enjoy a portable video machine with a selection of movies from the in-flight film library as well as a generous seat pitch.

For passengers with specific diets, Air Namibia can provide special meals on its flights, included in the great-value airfare. Options include low fat and diabetic meals for those with particular health needs as well as raw vegetable meals, fruit platter meals and seafood meals.

Air Namibia uses MD-11 and Airbus A340-300 aircraft on all its flights between Europe and Namibia, while regional flights within southern Africa are operated on Boeing 737-200 aeroplanes. The aircraft are maintained by South African Airways and Lufthansa.

The national airline, Air Namibia was originally founded in 1946 as South West Air Transport and went through several name changes over the years. The Windhoek to London flight route was started in 1992.