Great addition for CPT.
Why would the additional flights be within the same time as the others...won't it fit better in other ADD banks?
Would really think that ET must be considering re-instating ADD-DUR route?
Interesting plans from Air Mauritius according to this article from October last year for 2023: https://defimedia-info.translate.goog/tourisme-un-plan-elabore-pour-attirer-davantage-de-touristes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp To summarise: ⋅ Plan to le...
Jump to postAH will open 3 new african routes: Algiers – Addis Ababa eff 27MAR23 2 weekly A330-200 (Operation on Day 1-2 varies 12JUN23 – 05SEP23) AH5370 ALG1730 – 0200+1ADD 332 5 AH5370 ALG1900 – 0330+1ADD 332 1 AH5371 ADD0330 – 0825ALG 332 6 AH5371 ADD0500 – 0955ALG 332 2 Algiers – Johannesburg eff 26MAR23 2...
Jump to postWill VS not use some extra slots to perhaps take JNB back to 2 daily, like they had pre-covid. Or extend CPT to year round, perhaps at reduced frequency in Northern Summer
Jump to postWill Airlink (South Africa) be a target of Embraer for a significant order of E2? They have been growing very well the last while and steadily expanding, becoming the largest carrier network and fleet wise in South Africa. Currently have 20 x E190 in the fleet (possibility of more coming) This week ...
Jump to postAirlink to take a 40% stake in FlyNamibia. https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/airlink-to-take-40-share-of-african-regional-carrier-flynamibia/150373.article Now, that is good news! Indeed good news! Airlink is an extremely well run private airline and the arrangement bodes well for flynamibia. I...
Jump to postI'm hoping to go to Chile next year. Living in Namibia, I have to go up to Europe and back down. A flight across the southern Atlantic would be excellent. Slightly off topic ... Is my memories playing tricks or did Malaysian once fly from CPT (or JNB?) to South America? TAAG has connectivity WDH-GR...
Jump to postAirlink to take a 40% stake in FlyNamibia. https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/airlink-to-take-40-share-of-african-regional-carrier-flynamibia/150373.article Now, that is good news! I guess this is good for both in some way. Just not clear on how this will impact competitiveness on the Namibia-So...
Jump to postStrange that ASKY would decide to compete on non-stop LOS-JNB, while Air Peace gives lots of excuses for suspending the route...?
Does FIH-JNB then have 3 airlines now competing (SAA, ASKY and Air Cote d'Ivoire)...I presume Air Cote d'Ivoire has 5th freedom rights on FIH-JNB sector as well?
How is Rwandair doing on their 5th freedom flights to South Africa...LUN-JNB and HRE-CPT? On LUN-JNB they are competing with 4 other carriers at the moment (Airlink, SAA, ProFlight, RoyalZambian) and Zambia Airways was planning to start this month (not sure if still will?). On HRE-CPT they're also c...
Jump to postAny indication when a decision would be made by US DOT about the remaining slots for South Africa service, between UA's IAD-CPT and Delta's ATL-CPT applications? I'm sure they'd like to get these routes loaded for booking asap and get it started by November at the latest?
Jump to postWill SYD-JNB stay on 4 weekly, or will it still increase now that PER-JNB is starting?
Jump to postSYD-CPT gets mentioned now and then also as part of this project...however is this a real possibility? Also why necessary would this be that more different than SYD-JNB, which is actually a little bit longer than SYD-CPT, which would suggest that B789 could also do it, or is it too far south for ET...
Jump to postSYD-CPT gets mentioned now and then also as part of this project...however is this a real possibility? Also why necessary would this be that more different than SYD-JNB, which is actually a little bit longer than SYD-CPT, which would suggest that B789 could also do it, or is it too far south for ETO...
Jump to postThe only spare widebody capacity right now is in 5 parked former TAM A332 frames TC-JIO/JIP/JIS/JIT/LOH, all of which could reasonably be brought back seeing as how their sisterships TC-JIR/JIZ/LOI are active and could replace A333 capacity on mid-haul flights into African and central Asia, which i...
Jump to postSouth Africa should be seeing further changes in the market in 2022, as things improve and become more stable. SAA is downsized a lot and will probably be a small player in the market for quite a while, with only 3 A319, 2 A320 and 1 A330-300 left in the fleet now. Mango is most likely not going to ...
Jump to postDoes anyone know how Zambia Airways is performing? Is the partnership with ET working better than with Malawian? I think they're only doing domestic flights at the moment, LUN-NLA and LUN-LVI. Hopefully this will work out for both, potential for mini-hub via LUN with routings that can be mostly sho...
Jump to postMuch better year than 2020, although still mostly domestic, with 1 international trip: 31 Dec '20 GRJ-JNB, LIFT A320 03 Jan'21 JNB-GRJ, CemAir Dash 8-Q400 18 Mar, GRJ-JNB, Kulula 737-800 22 Mar, JNB-GRJ, Kulula 737-800 12 Jun, GRJ-JNB, FlySafair 737-800 13 Jun, JNB-GRJ, CemAir CRJ-100ER 16 Jul, GRJ-...
Jump to postLooking at the DL201 history and schedule on both Flightradar24 and Flightaware, it appears to me that the frequency of this service has been increased marginally (and very recently?) to 5 times weekly. For those in the know, is this a temporary adjustment or is there a Delta announcement about a f...
Jump to postWill Qantas still resume JNB service from next week, 5 January?
Not sure if Australia has also dropped restrictions yet on Southern Africa.
Latest TK news: -TK grounds 6 x 321s, 4 x 321NEOs due to low demand -Due to high COVID cases, TK suspends flights to Brazil, S.Africa, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This was probably just a misinformation. Was actually announced on Monday in South Africa that quarantine free travel is open now for fully vac...
Jump to postAny indication how Delta plans to ramp up the service to JNB again? I've read that ATL-JNB is suppose to go to 5 weekly at some point?
Are they still pursuing to tag through CPT, or is the idea totally shelved since not been granted approval at first?
Any indication when they are planning to resume service to JNB as mentioned? Is everything sorted on the South African side, to prevent what happened before, when a plane was seized? Airlink only operates 4 weekly on JNB-DAR, they want to fly more, but can't get more rights. Now that Mango is also n...
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Jump to postAny indication whether the loads on EWR-JNB is still holding strong, since South Africa was changed back to level 4 travel advisory...although it doesn't seem that deters US tourists that much?
Also with DL starting ATL-JNB this weekend, no significant impact on UA?
Any indication what forward bookings looks like for EWR-JNB starting next week? Is it still starting with daily flights, or has it been reduced? While I understand there is still a lot of restrictions on travelers from South Africa, with exceptions, I don't quite understand the rule for vaccinated t...
Jump to postSAA's LCC subsidiary Mango is set to suspend flights from 1 May...all flights have been zero'd out. Not looking good. In the meantime FlySafair's reservation systems has been down for 2 days already, part of the global Radixx system issues...not great timing for them to capitalize on the Mango issue...
Jump to postOn the other hand, maybe this tempts some others to try their luck. EK or TK, perhaps? I doubt about EK. They didn't even try when there seemed no limit to their expansion plans. TK certainly does seem a good candidate, they are proud to be the airline with the most destinations. I wonder, so many ...
Jump to postWho is going to be left flying domestic routes in Namibia? There is WestAir which operates mainly scheduled services regionally on WDH-JNB and WDH-CPT, plus then one domestic scheduled route from Windhoek's other airport Eros to Ondangwa (ERS-OND). They operate ERJ145. Further on as charter service...
Jump to postAir Namibia did not have more domestic than international...but they did have more domestic than intercontinental...the table is in 3 categories. They only had 1 intercontinental route, WDH-FRA with A330-200, not even operating daily most of 2019. While they had easily between 10 and 15 daily flight...
Jump to postThis is the only aircraft in this scheme, the other 2 is switched, black background with yellow "L" This brings a lot of capacity in to the market, after Kulula resumed 1 December and the BA brand of Comair on 9 December, options are wide open. This brings 7 airlines on JNB-CPT. Really don...
Jump to postI guess the West African airlines want to grab the opportunity while SAA is seemingly out of the picture. By April 2021 the market should be better again we can hope. In the meantime it doesn't seem that Air Peace started their JNB flight as planned on 2 December...any update on that? Also Senegal A...
Jump to postSAA Technical has now withdrawn services to SAA due to unpaid bills. This will potentially ground the few flights that SAA are operating, freight and repatriation. Mango seems to be unaffected for now and is operating as normal. https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/saa-technical-withdraw...
Jump to postOriginair, Hamilton Airport prepare to restart regional passenger route Origin are also looking in to re starting the former Kiwi Air Nelson to Hamilton route. I wonder if they will look at the Wellington to Palmerston route also given up by Air NZ. It will link up all the dots on the way. No menti...
Jump to postFrom that article it doesn't state that EK is actually interested...just that they had discussions regarding the codeshare.
Ethiopian's interest is more possible, and in fact, I wouldn't mind if they get involved in a way.
And Safair isn’t really a good alternative ... pretty old 737-400s with dated interior. Had them too often and they aren’t fun. FlySafair have 738s as well. FlySafair emerged as the leader in the domestic market over the last few years, and at the moment is operating almost uncontested (Mango just ...
Jump to postFor how long will the Fokkers still be around then for Alliance? Was hoping to do a trip to Australia next year to get to hop on a few rare types that we don't see here in Southern Africa, which seemed possible there...but now this will probably not happen before 2022 anymore. Was looking at Fokker1...
Jump to postJNB-CPT is blocked at about 2h10m by current airlines. I wonder how much time they provide for pax to clear customs in JNB. Additionally, I believe ZA has outbound immigration, so I wonder if they have to provide time in CPT for JNB passengers to go through the outbound customs (does ZA allow passe...
Jump to postAccording to FR24 schedules, SAA is scheduled to do flights to SYD and BNE in the next week or so, with A346.
Will this still be for repatriation of Aussie citizens from SA, or other way around, repatriation of South African citizens from Australia?
Not a regular scheduled flight...but this past weekend CemAir of South Africe did a repatriation flight, collecting stranded South Africans along the way through West Africa...all the way from Morocco to South Africa...routing CMN-NKC-OUA-ABJ-PNR-JNB, with CRJ900
Jump to postMy last real trip was luckily back in November to France. Last domestic trip was weekend at end of February, GRJ-JNB-GRJ with FlySafair Was due to do a weekend trip again on 26 March, literally the day lockdown started in South Africa Cancelled trip in May: GRJ-JNB (Kulula), JNB-MRU-SIN/KUL (MK...no...
Jump to postQF7025 is currently en-route MEL-JNB, with 789 VH-ZND (Yam Dreaming). Taking quite a southern routing, although maybe not as far south as the 744s go.
It also looks like CPT-PER with SAA will in fact be operating tonight, with A346 ZS-SNC (Star Alliance livery).
Just clarify regarding the A350-900
SAA is operating two yes, through MK or then the leasing company...but MK is also operating 2 A359s themselves (3B-NBP and 3B-NBQ)
According to FR24 it looks like a flight is scheduled by SAA to operate CPT-PER with A346 on 25 April, for repatriation of Aussie citizens.
On SAA site it also gives information of a prospective flight (JNB-CPT-PER)
https://www.flysaa.com/za/en/repatriation.action
A few multi-leg trips I've done, mostly due to it being reasonably better priced, but also to catch certain aircraft types. Also no nonstop perhaps available between the main cities (besides my hometown which is only domestic anyway): GRJ-JNB-DXB-SIN-BNE-AKL GRJ-JNB-SEZ-AUH-HKG-KUL-TGG GRJ-JNB-LAD-O...
Jump to postAny idea when the Qantas repatriation flight to JNB will be? Is it confirmed to be with 787-9?
Jump to postGerman government have now come to an agreement with SAA to operate up to 19 repatriation flights for travelers still stuck in South Africa. Flights will be from both JNB and CPT to both FRA and MUC, mostly with A340-600, starting tonight. Apparently a flight to BRU as well at some point. I find it ...
Jump to postI will not be counting suspended routes due to the coronavirus SWF-DUB (DY and DY op by Evelop) SWF-EDI (DY) JRO-ZNZ (QR) EDI-MAN (Flybe) EWR-SJU (WN) JRO-ZNZ is still served by Air Tanzania and Precision Air Reminder this thread is about routes not available anymore by any carrier, not just if an ...
Jump to postAnother day with some unusual Latam flights: - JJ9454 GRU-LAX B77W (PT-MUE) - LA1102 GRU-LAX B789 (CC-BGK) - LA1130 GRU-LAX B788 (CC-BBI) Does anyone know why 3 flights to LAX? It's the second day this is happening. It looks like Latam is also scheduling a flight routing GRU-JNB-DPS return over the...
Jump to postI can't pick up if any of these aircraft has already arrived at CPT or on their way, is this still happening tonight?
The normal scheduled MUC A346 and FRA A343 did arrive this morning.