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.

The leisure carrier is entering another long-haul market served by Lufthansa.

The specific date was welcomed by airlines planning winter flight schedules.

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

The carriers have a long-term goal of co-starting a pan-African airline group.

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.

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.

Frequencies are being increased due to rising passenger demand, the airline says.

African airlines' traffic in July was just 43% of pre-COVID-19 levels.

The carrier is operating the route with four-class A350-900neo aircraft.

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

The carrier plans to begin accepting Dubai-bound passengers from three countries, as well as adding double-daily Airbus A380 service to Jordan during July and August.

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 South African airline hopes to launch the service within months.

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

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has approved two new international passenger routes.

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.

Routes looks at the most popular airports, routes and market pairs in the country this week as start-up Lift reveals plans.

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.