Economic woes forced a Sudanese private airline to ground its planes and the German flag air carrier to stop flying to Khartoum at the beginning of 2014.
Marsland Aviation chairman Rashid Ortashi told AFP that as from Sunday ‘it was the last flight from Marsland.”
He blamed the American sanctions for Marsland’s shutdown.
“We are really begging, begging the USA to lift the sanctions on the private companies in Sudan. They are dying,” Mr Ortashi said.
Lufthansa’s direct flights between Frankfurt and Khartoum will be suspended on January 19 after 51 years of service.
Lufthansa’s Sudan general manager Hartmut Volz wrote to customers saying the German air carrier ‘regularly monitors its profitability. In this context it was decided to suspend services from Frankfurt to Khartoum.’
Dutch flier KLM ended its direct flights between Amsterdam and Khartoum on March 31 evoking rising costs.