Air Austral brings on B777-200 Leonard Neill AIR AUSTRAL will launch a new B777-200 aircraft on the Johannesburg-Reunion route in October, adding considerable cargo capacity. “It’s a threefold increase on current capacity and an exciting move forward,” says Bryn Woolley, managing director of Airline Cargo Resources (ACR), the airline’s South African GSA. “We can utilise this capacity not only for Reunion, but also for transhipments to other Indian Ocean islands, where business is picking up rapidly. It also enables us to offer space on flights from Reunion to Paris with quick transhipment times on the island.” This will be confined to a Sunday flight from Johannesburg, which is being reintroduced to give the airline a second weekly service on the route. The present Thursday service continues utilising a B737. The cut-off cargo delivery time for both flights will be 17:00 the previous day. The Sunday flight will depart Johannesburg at 15:05, arriving in Reunion at 20:45 the same day. Departure time of the Thursday flights remains unchanged at 10:45 with arrival in Reunion at 16:00.
