FlySafair will launch new routes between Durban’s King Shaka Airport and East London as well as Durban and Port Elizabeth. The first flights will depart on November 27 and tickets are already on sale through the airline’s website.
The launch of these routes follows a survey that FlySafair conducted to determine public appetite for potential routes. The survey included the Durban-East London and Durban-Port Elizabeth options along with Nelspruit-Cape Town, Durban-George, Cape Town-Bloemfontein, Lanseria-Bloemfontein and Lanseria-Cape Town.
The winning route according to the survey, with a majority of 54% of the votes, was Cape Town-Nelspruit. However, the airline chose to launch the routes that came in second and third place for business reasons.
Kirby Gordon, head of Sales and Distribution of FlySafair says the airline had to consider the demand to capacity fit (enough passengers on seats); efficiency (maximizing the available flying hours of the aircraft and crew), and take-off and landing slots as determining factors when deciding which routes to launch.
“The interest in the Cape Town-Nelspruit route is very encouraging and we’ll certainly keep looking into it too,” he adds.
