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South Africa

United Angles for Extra Cape Town Service

21 February 2025 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

A United Airlines 787 in flight over water with a sunset behind it.

Last week Delta Air Lines asked the DOT to grant it flexibility in operations to South Africa. This week United Airlines followed suit.

This story is about: Cape Town, CPT, Delta Air Lines, Department of Transportation, DoT, JNB, Johannesburg, regulations, South Africa, United Airlines Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports

Delta Seeks South Africa Service Shift

14 February 2025 By blogadmin Leave a Comment

Delta wants to shift some of its South Africa service, moving two weekly A350 flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town.

This story is about: Cape Town, CPT, Delta Air Lines, Department of Transportation, DoT, JNB, Johannesburg, regulations, South Africa Filed Under: IFEC

Delta plans "High J" config for A350 fleet

16 December 2023 By Seth Miller 4 Comments

Delta Air Lines appears set to add more business class seats to its A350s in an upcoming layout, set to fly in mid-2024.

This story is about: A350, A350-900, ATL, Atlanta, business class, Cape Town, Comfort Plus, Comfort+, CPT, Delta Air Lines, DeltaOne, economy class, JNB, Johannesburg, lie-flat beds, premium cabin, premium economy, Premium Select, seating, seats, South Africa Filed Under: Seats & Cabin

Delta, United both win access to serve Cape Town this winter

14 July 2022 By Seth Miller 1 Comment

A view of the Cape Town skyline from a helicopter flight

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines spent the past five months bickering over a scarce resource: access to fly from the US to Cape Town South Africa. The US DOT managed to negotiate a solution where both come away winners.

This story is about: Cape Town, CPT, Delta Air Lines, Department of Transportation, DoT, regulations, routes, South Africa, United Airlines Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports

Delta plans Cape Town service, again

17 February 2022 By Seth Miller 3 Comments

Delta Air Lines is, once again, angling to add Cape Town, South Africa to its route map. The carrier applied to the US Department of Transportation to fly the route 3x weekly from Atlanta on a year-round basis beginning 18 November 2022.

This story is about: ATL, Atlanta, Cape Town, CPT, Delta Air Lines, Department of Transportation, DoT, routes, South Africa Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports

South Africa rejects Delta’s Cape Town plans

21 June 2021 By Seth Miller 10 Comments

News broke late last week that Delta Air Lines no longer plans to include Cape Town in its plans for service to South Africa. Now we know a key reason: the South African government denied the airline’s application

This story is about: Cape Town, CPT, Delta Air Lines, Department of Transportation, DoT, JNB, Johannesburg, routes, South Africa, South African Airways Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports

United announces new long-haul routes for 2021

9 September 2020 By Seth Miller 1 Comment

A United Airlines 787-8 at Denver

Airline route networks must adapt to shifting demand and long-haul operations are no exception. United Airlines is the latest player to make a move on that front, announcing seven routes today with service slated to launch between December and Summer 2021. The carrier will be reopening some destinations, expanding others and inaugurating a couple of markets never before served.

This story is about: ACC, Accra, American Airlines, Bangalore, BLR, DEL, Delhi, Delta Air Lines, Dulles, Emirates, Ghana, Hawaii, IAD, JetBlue, JNB, Johannesburg, Lagos, LOS, Nigeria, routes, South Africa, South African Airways, United Airlines, Washington DC Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports

PaxEx Premium: Looking ahead to Global Eagle’s earnings

7 November 2018 By Seth Miller

Two stories should deliver a net boost for Global Eagle headed into Thursday's earnings release. They are not both good news (and one remains unconfirmed), but the positive outweighs the negative significantly.

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This story is about: bankruptcy, earnings call, GEE, Global Eagle, IFC, IFE, IFEC, in flight, in-flight connectivity, in-flight entertainment, in-flight internet, inflight connectivity, inflight entertainment, Ku, Ku-band, Mango, PAC, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, PaxEx, Saudia, South Africa, South African Airways, wifi Filed Under: IFEC, PremCat, Premium

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