“With this new partnership, SAA will be able to offer additional daily connections to India via Abu Dhabi on top of the Etihad-operated flights on which our code is already applied.” Sylvain Bosc, SAA chief commercial officer.
Air connections between South Africa and India are set to improve, following the signing of a new codeshare agreement between SAA and Jet Airways.
The agreement will also see more affordable fare combinations in the market. The new codeshare agreement supports SAA’s trunk route between Johannesburg and Abu Dhabi, and the connections from Abu Dhabi on to five major points in India. SAA now shares Jet Airways’ services from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
In turn, Jet Airways has put its code on SAA’s flights between Abu Dhabi and Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Both airlines already have codeshare agreements with Etihad Airways in place on routes to and from the Abu Dhabi hub.
Bosc admitted that SAA’s first weeks of operations via Abu Dhabi were made difficult by the closure of the Yemeni airspace due to ongoing military operations, which made the flight time between Johannesburg and the Middle East longer and therefore led to many onward connections being missed, in particular to India.
Air connections between South Africa and India are set to improve, following the signing of a new codeshare agreement between SAA and Jet Airways.
The agreement will also see more affordable fare combinations in the market. The new codeshare agreement supports SAA’s trunk route between Johannesburg and Abu Dhabi, and the connections from Abu Dhabi on to five major points in India. SAA now shares Jet Airways’ services from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
In turn, Jet Airways has put its code on SAA’s flights between Abu Dhabi and Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Both airlines already have codeshare agreements with Etihad Airways in place on routes to and from the Abu Dhabi hub.
“With this new partnership, SAA will be able to offer additional daily connections to India via Abu Dhabi on top of the Etihad-operated flights on which our code is already applied,” said Sylvain Bosc, SAA chief commercial officer.
Bosc admitted that SAA’s first weeks of operations via Abu Dhabi were made difficult by the closure of the Yemeni airspace due to ongoing military operations, which made the flight time between Johannesburg and the Middle East longer and therefore led to many onward connections being missed, in particular to India.
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