Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) has ordered a $67,000 (Sh147 million) reservation ticketing system from Turkey.
The system installation aims to
help the company avoid irregularities in ticket sales and improve services to
customers, according to ATCL managing director Ladislaus Matindi.
"We signed a contract with
an Istanbul-based Hitit Solutions Company over the past two weeks to offer the
service. Training on the use of technology has started."
The system was expected to
become operational next month.
He hopes the technology will
leverage in tracing what happens in ticket sales, hence providing no chance for
irregularities as it used to be.
Works, Transport and
Communications minister Makame Mbarawa last year suspended ATCL finance manager
Stephen Kasubi over the loss of Sh715 million associated with irregularities in
ticket sales. Prof Mbarawa said Mr Kasubi allegedly fraudulently facilitated a
Comoro-based travel agency -- Salama World Travel Agency -- access Sh715
million tickets against the law.
The law sets Sh15 million as
the ceiling for the value of tickets that the company can give to a travel
agent, and for which payment must be made before new ones are issued, according
to the minister.
"We won't spare
unscrupulous workers; we want loss in revenue associated from irregularities in
ticket sales to be a thing of the past," said Mr Matindi.
source: the citizen
source: the citizen
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