Four additional flight routes into Cape Town International Airport will launch in the next few weeks. It’s all part of the city’s Air Access project which aims to intensify and broaden Western Cape air access to targeted African and international markets.
- On March 25, Kenyan Airways will increase the frequency of its flight from Nairobi to Cape Town via Livingstone, from three flights per week, to four.
- TAAG airlines will also increase the frequency of its flight from Luanda to Cape Town from three to four times a week from March 25.
- From March 26, Singapore Airlines will fly to Cape Town daily, via Johannesburg, increasing from four flights per week.
- From March 28, Air Mauritius will expand capacity from narrow body to wide-body aircraft with two flights per week between Mauritius and Cape Town.
Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde, commented: “Kenya and Angola are among the fastest growing economies on the continent. The expanded flight schedules between Cape Town and Luanda, and Cape Town and Nairobi, are proof of the excellent trade and tourism opportunities that exist between our economies”.
A further four routes will launch later this year:
- RwandAir’s flight between Kigali and Cape Town, stopping in Harare, operating four times per week, will launch in May.
- In June, Kenya Airways will start operating its non-stop, five hour flight between Nairobi and Cape Town, three times per week.
- From October, Austrian Airlines will operate two non-stop, seasonal flights between Vienna and Cape Town per week.
- In November, Cathay Pacific will launch its three times weekly, non-stop, seasonal flight between Hong Kong and Cape Town.
