Airlines From USA Into Africa

YOERI1970 · Mon Dec 17, 2001 6:34 pm

Are there airlines from the USA that fly into Africa themselves.
I know there are codeshared flights, like NWA flightno's on KLM airplanes/flights for instance.

Any usefull answer will be appreciated.

baxter · Mon Dec 17, 2001 6:36 pm

Sonair/World

Guest · Mon Dec 17, 2001 7:54 pm

South African is doing JFK-JNB as well as ATL-CPT

TCA256 · Mon Dec 17, 2001 8:03 pm

Isn't Delta having code-shared flight with Ghana Airways from JFK ???

taloush · Mon Dec 17, 2001 9:53 pm

Royal Air Maroc flies to Morocco from JFK i think

prosa · Mon Dec 17, 2001 11:17 pm

Air Afrique from JFK to Dakar.

AdamHarvard · Tue Dec 18, 2001 3:28 am

Was there not a short-lived airline called USAfrica that flew md-11's from ATL(?) to Jo'berg via dakar in the early 90's. They had a livery similar to old US air colors i think.

airafriquedkr · Tue Dec 18, 2001 4:06 am

Here are current scheduled flights from the United States to Africa. Currently there aren't any American carriers operating their own aircraft into Africa:

SA202 JFK-Johannesburg (fri,sat,sun) 744
SA202 JFK-Ilha do Sal-Johannesburg (wed) 744
SA204 JFK-Lagos-Johannesburg (tue,thu,sat) 743
SA212 ATL-Johannesburg-Cape Town(mon,wed,sun) 744
SA210 ATL-Cape Town Johannesburg (tue,thu,sun) 744
RK502 JFK-Dakar (wed, sat) 767
GH131 JFK-Accra (thu) DC-10
GH151 JFK-Accra (sat) DC-10
GH121 JFK-Accra (tues) DC-10 (until jan. 15)
GH123 BWI-Accra (wed) DC-10 (until jan. 16)
GH161 BWI-Banjul-Accra (sun) DC-10
AT205 YUL-JFK-Casablanca (mon,thu,sat) 744 (only tuesdays starting Jan. 15)
AT 205 JFK-YUL-Casablanca (sat. starting Jan. 12) 744
MS986 YUL-JFK-Cairo (fri) 777
MS986 JFK-Cairo (sun) 777
MS988 YUL-JFK-Cairo (tues) 777
MS984 JFK-Cairo (sat) 777
ET512 IAD-EWR-FCO-Addis Ababa (mon) 763
ET532 IAD-EWR-FCO-Addis Ababa(wed/unitl jan.16)763
ET562 IAD-EWR-FCO-Addis Ababa (sat) 763

covert · Tue Dec 18, 2001 4:09 am

ghana airways flies to bwi and jfk, south african codeshares with nigeria from lagos, they also go to atl and miami, royal air maroc and egyptair had some flights, and also ethiopian goes to newark and iad.

usafrica flew out of iad...

Guest · Tue Dec 18, 2001 4:27 am

AdamHarvard - nope, USAfrica flew twp MD11s leased from American Airlines - N1757A and N1758B - (there's a logical aircraft to use if you're a start-up and need to conserve the pennies) from IAD to CPT and JNB.

Not too surprisingly, they only lasted a few months after taking something like five years to get up and running. It ceased operations in February 1995, (after starting in June 2nd 1994) and tried to restart but not surprisingly no one was interested in investing; though they did announce a tie-up with Continental.

World Airways and Southern Air Transport were subsequently granted the rights to the routes by the DOT.

This was an 'affirmative action' airline, headed by Gregory Lewis and chaired by Wesley Kaldahl.

rwy31r · Tue Dec 18, 2001 5:22 am

Will AA take over TW's former JFK-CAI-RUH route?

ryu2 · Tue Dec 18, 2001 6:00 am

Does Delta have plans to restart its JFK-CAI-DXB route?

eta unknown · Tue Dec 18, 2001 10:36 am

I believe World Airways will start scheduled services to Lagos in the near future.

Their Houston-Sal Island-Luanda flight is a charter service under the control of Sonangol, the Angolan national oil company.

USAirBWI · Tue Dec 18, 2001 10:58 am

I know I have seen Ghana Airways DC-10's at BWI but it doesn't say anything about it on Ghana's site. I guess they just haven't updated. I really wouldn't think there would be that much of a market for Ghana at BWI but a guess it's been working out for them(not that I'm complaining or anything. It just seems that almost every other intl. airline flies to IAD and any bigger jets here are a pleasant surprise.)

By the way, I know AirafriqueDKR already said this but I'm just putting my two cents in.

USAirBWI

MAH4546 · Tue Dec 18, 2001 11:02 am

I believe Air Namibia has unused weekly traffic rights on the Windehok-Miami-Houston route. I would not mind seeing them excersise that right, and I think the flight could do really well.

Guest · Tue Dec 18, 2001 11:02 am

I think a well-run airline from NY/Washington/Chicago to Lagos, Nairobi, Jo'burg would work if they had good reliability, major airline link up and low fares.

767-300ER could make this trip no?

TonyBurr · Tue Dec 18, 2001 12:04 pm

No USA flag carrier flies from the US to East, west or southern Africa. They code share (Star Alliance, oneworld, etc). but the American flag is not seen in these further parts of Africa.

MAH4546 · Tue Dec 18, 2001 12:28 pm

I could see American Airlines serving South Africa from Miami in the far future. South Africa is a pretty high yield market, but AA does not have planes to make the trip non-stop. The problem is, most Americans going to Africa go via Europe, and European carriers make a killing in Africa. African routes are huge money makers for Air France and the former Sabena, among others.

airmale · Tue Dec 18, 2001 9:23 pm

PIA used to fly on the New York Cairo route upto the late 80's early 90's the only US carriers that have served Africa direct have been TWA and Delta both to Cairo, Pan Am used to fly to Nairobi from their Frankfurt hub Smile

DCA-ROCguy · Wed Dec 19, 2001 1:48 am

In the early 80's Pan Am flew from JFK to Monrovia, Liberia. I don' tknow if they flew other African routes.

Jim

covert · Wed Dec 19, 2001 3:50 am

many many years ago panam flew 747's to dests. like monrovia, abidjan, accra, lagos, nairobi and j'burg. my pops said he used to take panam every 2 weeks from jfk to accra with a stop in monrovia. he told me that the airplane could take off from new york with like 250 people on board and like 220 would get off in monrovia and only 30 people would come to accra. and most of those werent even liberians or ghanaians...

covert · Wed Dec 19, 2001 3:53 am

oh yeah, ghana airways does get quite the load to jfk. their dc-10's typically take off with an excess of 240 souls on board. im not sure about bwi, but im sure that would be pretty high too. you'd be surprised to know that there are loads of ghanaians in the dc area...

Guest · Wed Dec 19, 2001 4:18 am

When I was a kid, I lived in Monrovia and went to the American school (ACS) there. Robertsfield was quite a significant base for Pan Am, and there were a fair number of expat staff based there.

In fact, my first flight on Pan Am was on 30 November 1978, on N491PA, routed LOS-ROB-JFK.

Konstantinos · Wed Dec 19, 2001 5:16 am

Good old Zambia Airways used to fly twice weekly from Lusaka-Monrovia-New York JFK with a DC10-30.
The route went like this; JNB-LUN-ROB-JFK-ROB-LUN-JNB. This was late 80's till early 90's.

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donder10 · Wed Dec 19, 2001 5:20 am

I dont think Sabena did that well on their African network-Ceidilh can explain it in more detail.

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