British Airways will add five flights to its existing double-daily schedule between Johannesburg and London from next year to offer 19 flights a week.

The new services will begin operating at the end of March, depending on aircraft availability, and will continue year-round.

It will also double its seven weekly flights between Cape Town and London from the end of October this year until March 2009. This is the expanded schedule that it has operated to Cape Town over the busy summer tourist season for the past three years.

Lin Glass, British Airways’ General Manager for South Africa, Mauritius and the Seychelles, says the increased schedule comes at a time when many carriers are cutting capacity.

“We’ve experienced robust growth on the Johannesburg route over the past few years and demand for seats is still very strong, despite weak global demand for travel and sustained high oil prices. This is why we’ve incrementally expanded the route while retaining our expanded Cape Town summer schedule.”

As well as growing its services to South Africa, British Airways has just built two new lounges at OR Tambo International Airport, modelled on its popular Galleries Lounges at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. The new lounges open in mid-October.


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