By Geoffrey Thomas
Published Mon Jan 8, 2024
South African Airways (SAA) is returning to Perth starting April 28 with an initial three flights a week with an A330 aircraft.
The official announcement is due shortly and the flights are currently being loaded into the reservation system.
The service will operate ex Perth on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
South African Airways is expected to use A330s on the route from Johannesburg and Perth in a configuration of 46 Business Class seats and 203 Economy seats.
In December AirlineRatings.com broke the news that Carla da Silva, GM of Sales, Marketing, e-Commerce and Distribution for South African Airways told a travel conference that the airline had secured leases on aircraft to support its 2024 corporate plan.
De Silva said that three aircraft will arrive this month and the airline will have 21 in its fleet by the end of 2024 – up from six.
It was hoped that the Perth schedule would start in March but it has slipped to April 28.
The resurgence of South African Airways follows the airline's bankruptcy and grounding during COVID. It resumed a pared-back service in September 2021 and has slowly been reintroducing flights and operations.
Da Silva told the travel conference that SAA had returned to profitability and could operate its schedule and routes without the need for any bailout or additional funding.
“We are profitable as we sit. Some routes are not profitable, but there are routes making up for that,” she said.
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