SAA inaugurates new route

SAA’s INAUGURAL flight from Cape Town to Frankfurt took off from Cape Town International Airport at 17h30 last night after a celebratory send-off. The new service sees an SAA A340-200 flying to the German city three times a week, and the airline has plans to increase this to daily. SA262 will depart at 17h15 from Cape Town every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and arrive in Frankfurt at 05h25 These flights will return as SA263, departing at 19h10 and arriving in Cape Town at 07h05 every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The initiative forms part of WOZA, a campaign by South African Tourism to promote South Africa as a year-round destination to German visitors. SAA has already increased flights to Zurich from three times a week to daily, and has announced it will also increase services to Paris in February 2005, from three flights a week to daily. Regular flights to Milan however, will end on October 25, to be replaced with a seasonal service. (Kate Nathan)