Cape Town International Airport

SAA will operate the Cape Town-Sao Paulo route, which started Oct. 31 using Airbus an A330, twice weekly.

Alliance members add intercontinental routes

South African Airways (SAA) will reintroduce long-haul flights for the first time in over three years, establishing a new route linking Cape Town and São Paulo.

We hear from David King, Cape Town Air Access project manager at Wesgro, outlines recent routes successes and how they were achieved.

Thai passengers will gain access to SIA’s flights to New York JFK and LAX, among other destinations.

United is the only airline flying between Washington Dulles and CPT.

The carrier is working with the South African Tourism Board to promote travel to the country.

The service is part of the carrier’s winter schedule, which will see the SkyTeam member operate capacity ‘close to’ 2019 levels.

A new triangular route will launch in December—more than two years after the carrier first unveiled the plans.

Nonstop flights between Cape Town and Maputo will launch later this month.

The US carrier is launching two never-before-operated routes, as well restoring a sector last served more than a decade ago.

The route is the result of a recent awarding of frequencies by the US Transportation Department.

The battle between Delta Air Lines and United Airlines for three of the available four frequencies between the US and South Africa is nearing a conclusion—and both carriers are set to be winners.

The airline will operate to Victoria Falls from a second South African city.

The carrier operates 35 weekly flights to South Africa.

The plans seek to build on a relationship that stretches back to 2011.

The carrier is anticipating leisure passengers flying on the route.

The carrier serves three South African cities.

The Atlanta-based carrier has pulled no punches in its response to United Airlines’ request to launch a second route to Cape Town in South Africa.

United hopes to begin flying between Washington and Cape Town from November but will face competition for the available weekly frequencies under the US-South Africa air services agreement.

Flights to the South African city will operate year-round from June.

The move follows the UAE's relaxation of travel bans.

The carrier is also planning to resume transatlantic flights from Manchester, England, and ramp up flying to South Africa.

The carrier is preparing to operate a robust international schedule next year and believes many major international airlines will face a shortage of widebody capacity as demand returns.

CEO Sean Doyle says BA is ‘seeing the light at the end of a very long tunnel.'