Zambezi Airlines To Serve Cape Town

Privately-owned Zambian carrier Zambezi Airlines is to inaugurate flights between Lusaka and Cape Town from June 30. The three times weekly link will be operated with a Boeing 737-500 via the border town of Livingstone, a gateway to the famous Victoria Falls.

The small carrier launched services in July 2008 initially offering links from Lusaka to the Copperbelt cities of Ndola and Kitwe with an Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante. Flights were subsequently added to Chipata, Livingstone and Solwezi and the arrival of two 737-500s has enabled services to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Harare, Zimbabwe; Johannesburg, South Africa; Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nairobi, Kenya to be added, as well as a domestic link to Ndola.

There are currently more than 70 flights per week between Zambia and South Africa offering almost 8,000 seats in each direction. The main links are from Livingstone and Lusaka to Johannesburg, although Livingstone is also linked to Nelspruit and Ndola to Johannesburg. Zambezi Airlines offers a daily link to Johannesburg from Lusaka and Ndola and accounts for around 24.4 per cent of the 220,000 O&D passengers that flew between the two countries in the past year, a figure that fell around 8.1 per cent in the past 12 months.

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.