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Aug 7, 2009 | 10:53 pm

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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer

Furthermore Comair claim to be out of the alliance for some purposes (when it suits them) and deny alliance benefits.

I'm interested - what have you experienced? I haven't flown them yet but am planning on doing a JNB-PLZ trip one day - what benefits did they deny?

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Originally Posted by kiwiandrew

MK ... also serve surprisingly few cities in Africa (CPT, JNB, DUR, NBO on the mainland all of which are already served by Comair...)

Comair don't fly to NBO - you may be thinking of Regional Airlines, which as hauteboy mentioned, aren't a BA franchisee anymore - the franchise was taken away from them in 2005 due to service/standards issues.

I'd like to see Comair expand - regionally and intercontinentally - but they seem to have focused on expanding kulula.com rather than the BA side of things. Their last BA route expansion was to MRU - and that came at the expense of GRJ (personal grrr).

Maybe Comair could start joining up some of the BA dots on the African map, such as JNB-NBO or JNB-LOS - on that last one though it'd be a 737 vs. the 340 of Arik or the 744 of SA unless they got some longhaul aircraft.

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