South African Airways (SAA) will resume flights on at least four of its old routes, including Victoria Falls, before the festive season.
Zimbabwe runs an open skies policy, which fully opens up its market to those who find it commercially viable to fly into the country and is also committed to facilitating local airlines to fly to other regions of the world.
The four resumed SAA destinations are Victoria Falls, Blantyre, Lilongwe in Malawi, and Windhoek in Namibia.
The routes are all set to be opened before the festive season beginning in December 2022.
The announcement was made on 2 November, with the airline also stating that several of their current routes will receive added flight frequency.
In addition, SAA will increase the number of weekly flights to Cape Town, Accra in Ghana, Harare, Durban, Lusaka, Kinshasa, and Mauritius.
The added flight frequencies are all part of the airline’s pandemic recovery plan which is currently in its the second phase.
SAA CEO, John Lamola, stated that the resumed routes would also greatly benefit the South African economy.
Recently, FlySafair also announced that it received approval to operate flights to 11 new destinations within Southern Africa, following a meeting of the Air Services Licensing Council of South Africa.
Its applications for routes between Johannesburg and Harare, Windhoek and Zanzibar and additional frequencies to Mauritius are still pending.
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