More flights from FlySafair this holiday season
Local airline, FlySafair has said that it is to increase capacity of flights ahead of the busy summer holiday season in South Africa,
FlySafair to add more flights to schedule
With the busy holiday season less than half a year away, FlySafair has announced that it will be increasing capacity ahead of South Africa’s summer season with the addition of two aircraft to its fleet.
According to Travel News, the two aircraft will be Boeing 737-800 NG’s and are expected to add 12-14 flights per day to the airline’s schedule, which is 189 seats per flight.
Kirby Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer at FlySafair said that there was no better time to prepare for the silly season than now, with bookings already on the rise for the December period.
“We perceive current market pricing to be irrationally high, meaning the peak periods need more capacity.” Gordon said as per Travel News.
The airline has not yet revealed the routes on which the two new aircraft will be used, other than it will likely add capacity to South Africa’s Golden Triangle, which is Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.
FLIGHTS TO SAFARI DESTINATION
Just last month, FlySafair announced it would be launching scheduled flights between Johannesburg and the Kruger in August.
According to the announcement on X, the airline said that flights would begin on 2 August and tickets would cost R951 (T’s & C’s apply).
This is also the first time that FlySafair will offer scheduled services between the two destinations. The carrier will offer two flights a week on this route, on Fridays and Sundays, using a Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
FlySafair also just recently launched a Cape Town to Kruger route this past April, directly linking Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) and Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA).
“We are very pleased to be able to start the year off with such an exciting new route. Although flights to areas surrounding the Kruger National Park are readily available from Johannesburg, there are limited commercial flight options from Cape Town,” Kirby Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer of FlySafair said via Travel News.