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Has MU Discontinued JNB

SA744 From South Africa, joined Nov 2005, 201 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1069 times:

HI all

Was just wondering If MU have discontinued the JNB route From MLE

Thanks

Chris

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Lxlgu From South Africa, joined Sep 2000, 1085 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1028 times:

Hi Chris!

MU have totally discontinued the South Africa route
Before the Olympics they announced they would suspend the route for 1 month but
they now totally discontinued
They carried mostly IT fares and premium fares were very low

Cheers!
Tony

SA744 From South Africa, joined Nov 2005, 201 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1019 times:

Hey Tony

Cool thanks for the heads up

That is a bit sad seems as tho the other big carriers have a monopoly, on the asian routes most probably a reason why eve air arnt flying to JNB as well as KE

Later
Chris

HeeseokKoo From South Korea, joined Jan 2005, 521 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 881 times:

Quoting SA744 (Reply 2):

KE and Korean government is working on to launch JNB. Nonstop was not an option for them. First tried ICN-BKK-JNB with 772, 3 weekly, but somehow bilateral didn't allow this (don't know detail, sadly.) But recently got agreement on ICN-NBO-JNB instead. KE might start with this route or work more on via BKK. I might be wrong. Anyway KE will launch JNB next year, depends on economic situation.

SA744 From South Africa, joined Nov 2005, 201 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 860 times:

Well if KE do fly via BKK they will be in direct competition with TG, i do believe that TG have pretty good loads out of JNB, and would not be keen on KE stealing some of there loads. Just my 2 cents. Yet still exciting to have KE on South african soil, what part of the year are they thinking of

Thanks
Chris

HeeseokKoo From South Korea, joined Jan 2005, 521 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 847 times:

Quoting SA744 (Reply 4):
what part of the year are they thinking of

Completely no idea at all. KE's plan varies too much. I guess winter season will have more demand than summer, so it might be later 2009 or very early 2009.

Nickofatlanta From Australia, joined May 2000, 1457 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 826 times:

Interesting - so that would mean that KE would join the small club of airlines to serve all six continents (in addition to BA, QF - after they relaunch EZE, EK, MH, SA).

SQ6807 From New Zealand, joined Jan 2008, 163 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 826 times:

Quoting HeeseokKoo (Reply 3):
ICN-NBO-JNB instead.

That seems like a neat option for KE. NBO has only limited service to Asia nonstop, and this would be a very different service from ICN to the heart of Africa. Plus opportunities for codesharing with Kenyan Airlines - skyteam and etc.

SA744 From South Africa, joined Nov 2005, 201 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 813 times:

Would KE still fly 772 on the route

BrightCedars From Belgium, joined Nov 2004, 1272 posts, RR: 2
Reply 9, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 704 times:

Quoting SQ6807 (Reply 7):
That seems like a neat option for KE. NBO has only limited service to Asia nonstop, and this would be a very different service from ICN to the heart of Africa. Plus opportunities for codesharing with Kenyan Airlines - skyteam and etc.

That seems indeed like a sweet route for Skyteam: ICN-NBO-JNB.

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