Air Namibia Makes Network Changes Ahead of A319 Arrival

African carrier Air Namibia is to increase frequencies on its flights to South Africa and introduce a new non-stop link to Ghana following the introduction of a second Airbus A319 later this month. The airline has been wet-leasing a new A319 from BH Air since April last year but is currently in the acceptance phase of introducing a former airberlin example, which was rolled out of the paintshop at Dublin Airport in full Air Namibia livery late last month.

The arrival of the aircraft will enable Air Namibia to add a third daily flight between Windhoek and Johannesburg and third daily rotation on its non-stop link between the Namibian capital and Cape Town from October 1. It will also enable capacity to be increased to the Ghanaian capital Accra with the existing four times weekly one-stop service via Johannesburg being replaced by a daily non-stop flight from the same date.

Other network amendments will see the Zambian Capital Lusaka linked to Windhoek with a direct daily flight. This will replace an existing four times weekly service via Johannesburg and will be operated using an Embraer ERJ 135. In the domestic market a three times weekly Windhoek - Luderitz - Oranjemund - Windhoek service will be re-introduced, while flights on the Windhoek - Rundu - Katima Mulilo routing will be doubled from three to six per week.