Originally Posted by
Steve_ZA
Comair is a South African company so their flights are not part of the UK-SA bilateral agreement. There is a separate bilateral agreement between SA and Namibia which Comair is a part of but BA is not.
Thank you for pointing out the legal technicalities, which I was not minding (as I have very little knowledge there), just the commercial potential of a route which was already being operated by a partner airline, and would lead to an equivalent one-stop LHR-JNB-WDH.