South Africa

Listen in as editors discuss South Africa's changed aviation landscape.

Privately owned carriers Airlink and FlySafair have become leading South African players.

Airlink will reinstate nonstop service between the countries after a flight ban was lifted.

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

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

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

The carrier serves three South African cities.

Kenya Airways CEO Allan Kilavuka believes that the “future of aviation in Africa lies in consolidation.”

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.

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.