A snapshot of the week's airline news
InterAir suspends JNB-DAR service
INTERAIR has suspended its Johannesburg-Dar es Salaam route
only five months after launching the service. Interair marketing
and communications manager, Anabela Correia, says: “We have
determined that traffic on the route to Dar es Salaam is too little
to be commercially viable at the present time.” The airline has
also suspended its Ndola-Dar es Salaam route. Flights between
Johannesburg and Ndola now operate only on Mondays and
Fridays, with no service available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays or Saturdays.
HOP! takes over AF short-haul flights
FROM the 2015 European summer, all Air France short-haul
flights will be operated by HOP! Air France. The airline released
a statement saying the objective of the shift was to recover
profitability on the short-haul market within three years. With
the backing of Air France, HOP! will introduce a new commercial
offering to the market. This will include the implementation of a
new simplified structure and will see the Air France point-to-point
teams from Paray-Vieille-Poste and the HOP! teams from Rungis
come together in a single centre in Montreuil.
