Flyafrica unveils plans for 2015

FLYAFRICA.com has
revealed more details of
its plans for a tourist route
from Cape Town to Victoria
Falls and on to Kilimanjaro,
which it plans to have up and
running before the end of the
year.
Once discussions with
Tanzanian authorities are
complete, flyafrica will be able
to launch the route, says
Adrian Hamilton-Manns, ceo
of the flyafrica group. “It is
something we are very much
committed to.”
Flyafrica Zimbabwe
already flies from Harare
to Johannesburg daily and
Harare-Victoria Falls and
Victoria Falls-Johannesburg,
both four times a week.
VFA-JNB flights will increase
to daily on June 1. This
is just one of the many
developments the airline
group would see this year,
Adrian told TNW.
Sales opened in October
for the group’s second airline,
flyafrica Namibia, which offers
daily flights from Windhoek
to both JNB and Cape Town.
From March it will also launch
flights from Johannesburg to
Lusaka using fifth freedom
rights.
“Johannesburg to Lusaka
will be the first of many routes
where flyafrica does not have
an Air Operator Certificate
in the country but will use
fifth freedom rights, which
we can now exercise,” said
Adrian. The rights will also
allow flyafrica to build its hub
operation out of Harare with
flights to Lusaka, Mozambique
and into neighbouring
countries such as Malawi.
The launch of two more
airlines is planned in the first
half of this year. With four
airlines, the group’s operations
will increase to 16 routes. In
the second half of the year
and early 2016, flyafrica plans
to launch three more airlines,
bringing the total number in
the group to seven.
Plans to launch a South
African operation are on the
cards but due to opposition
from established South African
carriers, Adrian can’t provide a
set date but expects it to be
by the end of the year.
“At the moment we’ve put
in our application with the
Air Licensing Council to be
awarded an Air Service Permit
to operate in South Africa
and that is in the stages of
being reviewed. The South
African airline will be in place
sometime this year, unless the
objections are such that we
are unable to make progress.
If that is the case then we
will be bringing low fares to
the rest of Africa and South
Africans will be left out.”