{"id":207909,"date":"2025-09-22T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/tanzania-air-tanzania-starts-lagos-dar-es-salaam-flights-govt-pledges-visa-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:38:52","slug":"tanzania-air-tanzania-starts-lagos-dar-es-salaam-flights-govt-pledges-visa-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/tanzania-air-tanzania-starts-lagos-dar-es-salaam-flights-govt-pledges-visa-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Air Tanzania Starts Lagos-Dar es Salaam Flights, Govt Pledges Visa Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Tanzanian government has pledged to review its visa system to ease travel for Nigerians flying from Lagos to Tanzania on the country&#8217;s national carrier, Air Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Professor Godius Kahyararara, disclosed this in Lagos as Air Tanzania launched direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Kahyararara said the decision to start direct flights to Lagos was made to ensure the connectivity of the African continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzanian government has pledged to review its visa system to ease travel for Nigerians flying from Lagos to Tanzania on the country&#8217;s national carrier, Air Tanzania. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Professor Godius Kahyararara, disclosed this in Lagos as Air Tanzania launched direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Lagos. Kahyararara said the decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7832,6969,4357,52411,257,393,7287,7580,18154,254,8899,746,1956],"class_list":["post-207909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-flights","tag-govt","tag-lagosdar","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pledges","tag-reforms","tag-salaam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starts","tag-tanzania","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}