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Burner wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:24 pm
It's been mentioned in a few articles that there have never been direct flights between Algeria and SA. Incorrect. In the early 2000's Khalifa Airways flew between Algiers and Johannesburg for a while before the whole Khalifa holding company went bankrupt.
I did the JHB Algiers on their bus then on to Biskra on the ATR72 in 2004. The flight up was Ok but return was like a taxi with 3 to 4 seats at a time taken by the "locals" to sleep the whole trip without any regard for seat allocation. The Boere were not impressed
Paul Sabatier
Long time Cygnet builder
The object is to fly, it does not matter what the object is!
FastJet now serving 5 destinations in Zimbabwe, with the addition of Hwange, they have also added an Embraer 120 to the fleet to service the smaller routes. Not in the know but I'm sure on lease as still on ZS register?
Zimfly wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 1:44 pm
FastJet now serving 5 destinations in Zimbabwe, with the addition of Hwange, they have also added an Embraer 120 to the fleet to service the smaller routes. Not in the know but I'm sure on lease as still on ZS register?
grjplanes wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:16 am
CemAir loaded nonstop DUR-GRJ service from 22 June'23.
Initially two weekly (Mon,Thu) with CRJ-100
Great news. A Friday would work better for leisure travel who wants to go away for the weekend. But they have their reasons why it's a Thursday .ps how do you knows its crj100 they will be using?
Durban is at least picking up with Proflight resuming Lusaka Durban and eswathini launching Swaziland to Durban in May
grjplanes wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:16 am
CemAir loaded nonstop DUR-GRJ service from 22 June'23.
Initially two weekly (Mon,Thu) with CRJ-100
Great news. A Friday would work better for leisure travel who wants to go away for the weekend. But they have their reasons why it's a Thursday .ps how do you knows its crj100 they will be using?
Durban is at least picking up with Proflight resuming Lusaka Durban and eswathini launching Swaziland to Durban in May
When checking for flights on Cheapflights they usually show scheduled equipment, but obviously this can change and vary. When I saw the flights on CemAir's site first I thought it's probably B1900 or DH1, as it shows 2h10 block time...it's JNB based aircraft that is scheduled, doing routing JNB-GRJ-DUR-GRJ-JNB on those days, so should they want to change to DH4 then the block time isn't too excessive. Presume it's a conservative approach, sure they'll look to increase it come summer season and make adjustments.
I see that despite all the press releases that Air Algerie on 26 March they would launch ALG-JNB, no flights have taken place yet. The flights have been loaded I see on FR24.
Burner wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2023 10:26 am
I see that despite all the press releases that Air Algerie on 26 March they would launch ALG-JNB, no flights have taken place yet. The flights have been loaded I see on FR24.
CemAir has updated (or in process) their route map picture on the website...little bit messy still, some dots connected which is not actually correct.
Kind of shows GRJ-DUR but it crosses BFN, but at the same time showing BFN-MGH as well.
More interesting is the "coming soon", which now shows regional routes to Luanda (was suspended before) and both VicFalls and Livingstone (which I presume is in connection with ProFlight). On the domestic front showing JNB-ELS...which was mentioned before, after launching CPT-ELS last week. Now also a new one showing CPT-GRJ. This would bring 4 destinations from GRJ for CemAir.
grjplanes wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:47 pm
CemAir has updated (or in process) their route map picture on the website...little bit messy still, some dots connected which is not actually correct.
Kind of shows GRJ-DUR but it crosses BFN, but at the same time showing BFN-MGH as well.
More interesting is the "coming soon", which now shows regional routes to Luanda (was suspended before) and both VicFalls and Livingstone (which I presume is in connection with ProFlight). On the domestic front showing JNB-ELS...which was mentioned before, after launching CPT-ELS last week. Now also a new one showing CPT-GRJ. This would bring 4 destinations from GRJ for CemAir.
Are they getting more planes or will their current routes be reduced to use those planes on their new routes?
grjplanes wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:47 pm
CemAir has updated (or in process) their route map picture on the website...little bit messy still, some dots connected which is not actually correct.
Kind of shows GRJ-DUR but it crosses BFN, but at the same time showing BFN-MGH as well.
More interesting is the "coming soon", which now shows regional routes to Luanda (was suspended before) and both VicFalls and Livingstone (which I presume is in connection with ProFlight). On the domestic front showing JNB-ELS...which was mentioned before, after launching CPT-ELS last week. Now also a new one showing CPT-GRJ. This would bring 4 destinations from GRJ for CemAir.
Are they getting more planes or will their current routes be reduced to use those planes on their new routes?
Maun starts 1 may
They continue getting new planes, seems more CR2, CR7 and CR9's joining. However I doubt their current fleet is all fully utilized anyway...perhaps the 4 CR9's operating within SA (doing JNB-CPT, JNB-GRJ, CPT-DUR mostly) is working very hard and maybe the DH4 fleet...but the CRJ100/200s might have some slack, while the DH3s isn't necessarily doing all the routes they do everyday and the B1900s looks very few nowadays (only see BFN-DUR, BFN-GRJ). Haven't seen the DH1 much lately either.
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