South African Airways (SAA) will offer three daily flights between Johannesburg and Windhoek from 1 May.
SAA JOHANNESBURG WINDHOEK FLIGHTS
South Africa’s national carrier will operate three daily flights between its OR Tambo International Airport hub in Johannesburg and Windhoek’s Hosea Kutako International Airport from 1 May.
SAA will offer early morning, midday and mid-afternoon flights from Joburg to Windhoek.
REBUILDING ITS FLIGHT SCHEDULE
Since the restructured airline resumed scheduled services in September 2021, South African Airways has cautiously been adding destinations and scaling up frequencies.
Initially, SAA relaunched services between Johannesburg and Cape Town as well as a handful of cross-border destinations on the African continent.
Now coming up 4 years later, SAA has grown its flight schedule significantly to include various destinations in Africa such as Harare, Victoria Falls, Accra, Lagos, Abidjan, Dar Es Salaam, Lusaka, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi as well as Perth (Australia) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
SAA’s domestic route network includes Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth).
The airline resumed scheduled flights to Windhoek in December 2022, operating six flights a week, using an Airbus A320 aircraft.
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS FLEET
The ramping up of SAA flights on the Johannesburg – Windhoek route is indeed possible due to receiving additional aircraft as well as optimised flight scheduling.
The South African Airways fleet now totals 19 – mostly narrowbody Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It also has 4 widebody Airbus aircraft for long-haul routes.
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