Cape Town International Airport

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.'

The move comes less than six weeks after Airlink signed a codeshare agreement with Emirates.

SAA's fleet is comprised of just six Airbus aircraft.

Flights to Lagos will operate from late November as the airline continues to expand its African network.

The service increases to Russia and Saudi Arabia follow additions made to the airline’s South Africa network.

SAA will return with an Africa-only network but hopes to fly beyond the continent as market conditions improve.

CemAir is the fourth South African carrier Emirates has struck either an interline or codeshare pact with.

The new deal builds on an interline partnership the airlines entered into last October.

Service from Atlanta to Johannesburg will resume in August but plans to tag Cape Town on to the route have been dropped.

Austrian Airlines says there will be a 'clear focus on long-haul travel' in winter.

The new route comes less than a week after Namibia’s government decided to close Air Namibia.

Wesgro managers on the Cape Town Air Access project discuss route development to the city as they vie with COVID-19.

The latest route cancellations follow the airline’s pause of flights to South Africa.

The deal is with FlySafair, which says it is offering 75% of the available domestic seat capacity in South Africa this month.

The latest addition to South Africa’s skies has revealed its inaugural routes.

An interline agreement with Airlink will allow travelers from Dubai to Cape Town and Johannesburg to go onwards to 45 destinations across the Southern Africa.

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The Portuguese airline plans to offer six new routes during the summer 2021 season.

United Airlines is beefing up its international network with the addition of three routes to destinations in Africa, two to India and two to Hawaii.

As British Airways’ fleet of Boeing 747s becomes the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, Routes assesses the impact on the carrier’s network.

More than a decade after suspending service to Cape Town, the South African city will return to Delta Air Lines’ network in October. The airline is also set to resume flights to China for the first time since February.

Administrators in charge of South Africa’s Comair believe there are “reasonable prospects” of saving the company. Routes looks at the airline group’s place in the market prior to the appointment of business rescue practitioners.

Virgin Atlantic has revealed its flying program for summer 2021, with plans to fly to 24 destinations.