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Old Feb 7, 2019, 12:06 am
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Originally Posted by Toshbaf
JNB Jan Smuts - Sal, Cape Verde Islands - JFK

Tell me I'm wrong.
Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
That wold have been my guess. IIRC ZA had to use Cape Verde to LHR too as it wasn't allowed to overfly most of Africa.
I am beginning to think I am wrong. Abidjan opened up to South African Airways later but not as a JFK flight.

I think Brazil is the answer so JNB-GIG-JFK. At that time, Sao Paulo used Campinas for long distance flights and Congonhas for short flights so Rio was the big international airport.
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