The national airline of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Congo Airways - on Wednesday announced that it would launch flights between South Africa and Congo with immediate effect.
The flights from Kinshasa to Johannesburg will run three times a week, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, on the two-year old airline which was launched in October 2016.
The new DRC-South Africa service represents Congo Airways’ first scheduled flight to South Africa.
Congo Airways plans to launch flights to Cameroon, Angola and Dubai next. The airline is jointly owned by the DRC government and investors from the private sector.
The launch of Congo Airway's DRC-SA route follows the two country’s adherence to the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) which was launched last month on the margins of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
