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South African Airways (SAA) temporarily suspends flights to Blantyre, Malawi

 

JOHANNESBURG. 19 March 2014. South African Airways (SAA) advises customers of the closure of the airport in Blantyre, Malawi, due to urgent runway repairs and maintenance.
 
Accordingly the airline has suspended its flights to Blantyre for the duration of the time that the airport will be closed by the Malawian aviation authorities.
 
SAA customers will be offered one of three options going forward:
 
Option 1
Those customers who do not wish to travel to Blantyre anymore will be fully refunded, with all penalties waived.


Option 2
Customers wishing to travel to/from Lilongwe on SAA’s service, and who elects to make their own way to/from Blantyre, can do so (at their own cost, between Lilongwe and  Blantyre)


Option 3
Customers will be rebooked who wish to postpone their travel to/from Blantyre until the airport is re-opened.
 
SAA regrets any inconvenience.
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About South African Airways
South African Airways (SAA), Africa’s most awarded airline, operates to 40 destinations worldwide.
In its domestic market SAA has an extensive schedule operating 556 flights in total per week between Johannesburg – Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth, from its Johannesburg hub, as well as code-shared flights between Lanseria – Cape Town and Durban. SAA offers more frequencies than any other airline in South Africa.
Regionally, SAA offers 24 destinations across the African continent including Abidjan, Accra, Blantyre, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Entebbe, Harare, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lilongwe, Livingstone, Luanda, Lusaka, Maputo, Mauritius, Nairobi, Ndola, Pointe Noire, Victoria Falls and Windhoek.
SAA’s international network creates links to all major continents from South Africa through 11 direct routes and code shares, with daily flights from Johannesburg to London (Heathrow), Frankfurt, Munich, Mumbai, Perth, Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, Washington, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. SAA has codes share agreements with 27 other airlines across the markets it serves. The airline has extended its code share agreement with Mango, its low cost operator, to also include coastal cities in South Africa (between Johannesburg and Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and George), as well as Johannesburg – Bloemfontein; Cape Town - Bloemfontein and Cape Town  - Port Elizabeth.
SAA’s core business is the provision of passenger airline and cargo transport services together with related services, which are provided through SAA and its four wholly owned subsidiaries: SAA Technical; Mango its low cost carrier; Air Chefs, the catering entity of SAA and South African Travel Centre (SATC).
SAA is a Star Alliance member which offers more than 21,900 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries. SAA is the winner of the 'Best Airline in Africa’ Award in the regional category for eleven consecutive years. Mango and SAA hold the number one and number two successive spots as South Africa’s most on-time airlines.
 
For more information contact:
SAA
Tlali Tlali  (Mr)                                                                          
SAA spokesperson                                                                                                          
Mob:     +27 82 333 3880                                                     
Email:    TlaliTlali@flysaa.com                             

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