{"id":122323,"date":"2022-03-14T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=122323"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:04:52","slug":"british-airways-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"British Airways loses connections on domestic routes in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a <strong>tough blow for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-durban-20180509.html\/\">British Airways<\/a> in South Africa<\/strong>The Group is one of the world's most important markets, and certainly THE most important on the African continent. And certainly THE largest on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Sunday 13 March, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) indefinitely suspended flights by the domestic airline Comair.<\/strong> for safety reasons. The injunction was given on Saturday 12 March. But what appeared to be a 24-hour standstill will take longer.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Civil Aviation Authority justifies this suspension on the grounds of a proliferation of incidents in recent weeks at Comair, pointing to a lack of maintenance and safety rules. SACAA has confirmed that the suspension will be maintained until its concerns have been adequately addressed by the company.<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-flight-cancellations\">Read also: British Airways: more flight cancellations<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This concerns <strong>all the airline's domestic and regional flights, as well as its low-cost subsidiary Kulula.com<\/strong>. According to Glenn Orsmond, CEO of Comair, \"This is a huge blow to our customers, employees and the travelling public as it effectively removes 40 % of capacity from the market. The implications for the aviation sector and the country are considerable if the suspension is prolonged.\" 2019, <strong>Comair and its subsidiary Kulula had carried six million passengers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122333\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair-1024x752-derived.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair-1024x752-derived.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair-300x220-derived.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair-768x564-derived.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair-80x60-derived.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ba-reseau-comair.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Comair network operating under BA franchise in 2019 (screenshot Comair annual report 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">British Airways embarrassed<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There is also the problem of British Airways. <strong>The South African carrier has been operating under franchise for the British airline since 1996.<\/strong>. Comair operates connecting flights with BA flights in Johannesburg. These are mainly domestic routes - in particular from Johannesburg to Cape Town, Durban or Port Elizabeth. But there are also many regional destinations from South Africa's economic metropolis. These include Mauritius, Harare (Zimbabwe) and Windhoek (Namibia).<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/air-transport-africa-2022\">Read also: African air transport hopes for a stronger recovery in 2022<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Suspension means that<strong> BA passengers will have to find alternative ways to get to Comair stations<\/strong>. However, the company is continuing to make representations to the SACAA to have the suspension lifted. However, it is unable to say when a rapid return to normal is expected.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of the operating licence of South African regional airline Comair and its low-cost subsidiary Kulula has deprived British Airways of connections on domestic routes in its largest market in Africa...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":122331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-122323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerien","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>British Airways, coup d&#039;arr\u00eat sur son r\u00e9seau int\u00e9rieur sud-africain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"British Airways ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie plus de correspondances sous son propre code en Afrique du sud avec la suspension des vols de Comair.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-south-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"British Airways perd ses correspondances sur les lignes int\u00e9rieures d&#039;Afrique du Sud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"British Airways ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie plus de correspondances sous son propre code en Afrique du sud avec la suspension des vols de Comair.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-south-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Voyages d&#039;affaires\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-14T12:44:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-18T10:04:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/king-shaka-international-airport-1-previ.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1068\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"713\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud\",\"name\":\"British Airways, coup d'arr\u00eat sur son r\u00e9seau int\u00e9rieur sud-africain\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/king-shaka-international-airport-1-previ.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-14T12:44:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-18T10:04:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3\"},\"description\":\"British Airways ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie plus de correspondances sous son propre code en Afrique du sud avec la suspension des vols de Comair.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/british-airways-afrique-sud#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/king-shaka-international-airport-1-previ.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/king-shaka-international-airport-1-previ.jpeg\",\"width\":1068,\"height\":713,\"caption\":\"L'a\u00e9roport international de Durban. 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