Delta to fly to Africa
Feb 9, 2006 | 8:54 am
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Delta to fly to Africa
http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/060209/93773.html
Customers will enjoy service to Johannesburg, South Africa; Dakar, Senegal this December, given required government approvals effective Dec 06.
An intetresting option for Skyteam travellers !
Customers will enjoy service to Johannesburg, South Africa; Dakar, Senegal this December, given required government approvals effective Dec 06.
An intetresting option for Skyteam travellers !
Feb 24, 2006 | 6:50 am
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this is really interesting. maybe it will create some healthy pricing pressure on the n.america to africa routings through europe.
i remember when air afrique used to fly the jfk--dkr route in the pre-bankruptcy days... sure saved a lot of time.
i remember when air afrique used to fly the jfk--dkr route in the pre-bankruptcy days... sure saved a lot of time.
Feb 24, 2006 | 7:28 pm
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I have a Pan Am "Jet Clipper Route Maps" folder from 1970 showing flights to Rabat, Dakar, Monrovia, Abidjan, Accra, Cotonou, Kinshasa, Johannesburg, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Entebbe. The 1972 version, "Pan Am's World Routes," also shows Lagos, Douala and Libreville and replaces Rabat with Casablanca. Neither shows Cairo, but that was traded to TWA for rights in northern Europe, wasn't it?
Feb 25, 2006 | 12:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Gnopps
Won't this be the first route to Africa flown by an american carrier today?
That said, I don't look forward to flying DL to South Africa -- especially given DL's biz cabin; however, this could make for some very interesting convoluted award routings with stopovers en-route.
