Originally Posted by JulianFP

Thanks so much. I think you could be right. Funnily enough I was looking at the Emirates site last night and got to a page about its partnership with SAA where it said 3 flights daily between Cape Town and Dubai. That's obviously a page they forgot to update and presumably gives an idea of what capacity was in the good old days. I'm not sure if pre-pandemic any of those 3 flights were operated by SAA directly, I suspect not or if yes then surely only 1 of the 3, so that puts Emirates at at least one-half if not one-third of its pre-pandemic capacity to CPT. Ouch!

That would also explain the crazy-high prices for paid tickets I suspect. For many months now I have been seeing prices between 50% and 80% higher than what I was paying pre-pandemic.