South African Airways to launch daily flights between Dar-es-salaam and Johannesburg from January 20, 2025
The South African Airways will be launching new direct flights between Johannesburg and Dar-Es-salaam cities effective from the 20th day of January 2025, on daily basis.
According to an official statement from the National Carrier of South Africa, their flights to Tanzania are among the new African routes that the airline intends to rekindle in the course of the year 2025.
South African Airways will be operating daily flights between Dar and Johannesburg, according to an official announcement.
SAA’s latest move to revive their planes’ journeys between Gauteng Province of South Africa and the Commercial Coastal City of Dar-Es-salaam comes just as Air Tanzania is also resuming direct flights between Dar and Johannesburg that were to start on the 30th day of November 2024.
Air Tanzania envisages operating four flights (TC 208 and TC 209 return trips) per week, between Julius Kambarage Nyerere International and Oliver Tambo International Airports, using the carrier’s Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft.
In addition to flying to Tanzania, South African Airways will also be covering the Johannesburg to Lusaka routes and Lubumbashi, DR Congo, as well as flying to the Kenyan Capital city of Nairobi.
The airline with a fleet of 16 planes reportedly covers 15 destinations as of current.
Essentially, South African Airways was supposed to start flying directly from Joburg to Dar from as early as September 2024, but for some reason the journeys were delayed and from the company’s new announcements, this will now happen in the third week of January 2025.
Insiders say that was because of the three new planes that the airline had ordered but somehow their deliveries got delayed.
In the past, South African Airways used to code share flights with Air Tanzania; however, it is still not clear if this transport arrangement will also be revived in 2025.
As for the journeys between Johannesburg and Zanzibar, these will be served by FlySafair which runs flights from OR Tambo to the isles on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, aboard Boeing 737-800s.
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