Airlink is to launch a new direct service between Durban and Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) from April 4, with flights operating every day except Saturday. Bookings are already being taken.
“By offering a direct service between the two coastal cities, which are also important industrial, tourism and trade nodes, Airlink is introducing competition and giving travellers more options,” said Airlink CEO and MD, Rodger Foster.
“This latest expansion of our route network will promote economic activity between the two metropoles and their market catchment areas.
“These cover the KwaZulu Natal North and South Coasts as well as Eastern Cape cities and towns such as Coega, Kariega (Uitenhage), Makanda (Grahamstown) and popular tourist destinations such as Port Alfred, Jeffrey’s Bay, Cape St Francis and the Garden Route.”
This will be Airlink’s third route serving Gqeberha; it already connects the city with Johannesburg and Cape Town.
It also expands Airlink’s network of destinations served from Durban, which already include Johannesburg, Harare and Mbombela (Nelspruit).
Flights on the route will be operated by modern Embraer Regional Jets.
