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United scraps Cape Town flights
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United Airlines has confirmed it has dropped Cape Town from its 2020 Iata winter (Northern hemisphere) schedule but plans to relaunch the seasonal service from New York’s Newark International Airport in October next year. The plans for the Johannesburg service starting in 2021 remain unaffected.
Although the carrier didn’t give an official reason for the cancellation, the move is understood to be attributable to the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the airline’s worldwide schedule. “United Airlines will relaunch its seasonal winter service between Cape Town and New York/Newark for the 2021 (Northern hemisphere) winter travel season. The airline looks forward to beginning a new, non-stop daily service between Johannesburg and New York/Newark on March 28, 2021,” a spokesperson told Tourism Update.