SAA has started codeshare services with Etihad Airways.
This follows regulatory approval that enables both carriers to offer codeshare and interline services to key destinations on each other’s route networks.
Effective immediately, Etihad Airways will codeshare on SAA flights to Cape Town, Durban, East London, and Port Elizabeth. Codesharing on scheduled services to other key destinations, including Livingstone, Lusaka, Ndola, Harare, and Victoria Falls is pending, subject to government approval.
SAA will codeshare on Etihad Airways flights from Johannesburg to Abu Dhabi and onwards to Bahrain, Kuwait, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Other major destinations pending local regulatory approval are Shanghai, Singapore and Jeddah.
“Increasing our reach into Southern Africa is critical in meeting the demand from growing numbers of leisure and business passengers travelling between Africa and the major emerging markets in the Middle East, Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia,” said Kevin Knight, Etihad Airways’ Chief Strategy and Planning Officer.
