Delta will add flights to Johannesburg (South-Africa), Dakar (Senegal) and Quito and Guayaquil (Ecuador).
Flights from Atlanta to both African destinations will start in December. Flights to Ecuador are due to start on June 8.
It's the first time the airline will fly to the African continent with it's own metal. For now it still code-shares with South African Airways, but this deal is expected to end later this year.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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is getting time American airlines are flying more to African destinations.. 
a lack of passengers in the past (and thus market interest) shows how 'connected' the population feels with one of their "roots". even now probably the market comes from new immigrants, flying up and down "home".
anyhow.. good thing for tourists finally.
a lack of passengers in the past (and thus market interest) shows how 'connected' the population feels with one of their "roots". even now probably the market comes from new immigrants, flying up and down "home".
anyhow.. good thing for tourists finally.
I'll stand corrected but I'm quite sure that Delta used to fly to Cairo with their own metal just a couple of years ago...
They also code share with Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca and of course they use their Skyteam partners to code share to many other African destinations.
More than "new immigrants" the choice of destinations is clearly the traditional mix of business (JNB) and tourism (safaris from JNB, beaches in DKR).
Those destinations will be pushed by Delta Vacations and without a doubt, some code share feeder service between CPT (and maybe other SA cities) and JNB will be organized very soon.
Will the flights between SA and ATL still stop in Sal, Cabo Verde or will it be non-stop using 777?
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They also code share with Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca and of course they use their Skyteam partners to code share to many other African destinations.
More than "new immigrants" the choice of destinations is clearly the traditional mix of business (JNB) and tourism (safaris from JNB, beaches in DKR).
Those destinations will be pushed by Delta Vacations and without a doubt, some code share feeder service between CPT (and maybe other SA cities) and JNB will be organized very soon.
Will the flights between SA and ATL still stop in Sal, Cabo Verde or will it be non-stop using 777?
VFlies
A quick search revealed :
1. that Delta used indeed to fly 3 times a week from JFK to Cairo with their own aircraft.
Service discontinued following 9/11 (destination still served using AF codeshare)
2. that TWA also used to fly LAX-JFK-Cairo
3. that DKR would replace Sal as fuelling stop on the westbound service between South Africa and the USA
1. that Delta used indeed to fly 3 times a week from JFK to Cairo with their own aircraft.
Service discontinued following 9/11 (destination still served using AF codeshare)
2. that TWA also used to fly LAX-JFK-Cairo
3. that DKR would replace Sal as fuelling stop on the westbound service between South Africa and the USA
Also found an interesting article explaining why Continental was denied the right to start a direct Newark-Lagos service by Nigerian authorities in retaliation for a U.S. ban on Nigeria's new national carrier, Virgin Nigeria...
Continental Airlines, the world's sixth-largest airline, cancelled plans to fly to Nigeria after aviation authorities denied it technical permits required to operate the lucrative Lagos-New York route.
U.S. authorities had barred Virgin Nigeria, 49 percent owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, from direct flights into the United States, reportedly citing Britain's anti-competitive aviation policy.
''That decision was based on misinformation, Virgin Nigeria is not a British airline,'' an aviation ministry official said.
Source: BusinessDay.co.za
Continental Airlines, the world's sixth-largest airline, cancelled plans to fly to Nigeria after aviation authorities denied it technical permits required to operate the lucrative Lagos-New York route.
U.S. authorities had barred Virgin Nigeria, 49 percent owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, from direct flights into the United States, reportedly citing Britain's anti-competitive aviation policy.
''That decision was based on misinformation, Virgin Nigeria is not a British airline,'' an aviation ministry official said.
Source: BusinessDay.co.za
yes, with most offered connections meaning a transfer in one of the main european hubs with dozens of flights to anywhere in africa.and of course they use their Skyteam partners to code share to many other African destinations.
i was targeting at direct flight offers. it is quite way around to fly through north-west europe, if you want to go west or east africa (or southern, but that was already served with SAL/SAA thru CPT or JNB).
speaking of Safari's.. when i flew with KLM to JRO (Kilimanjaro) in 1998, over half of the (packed) MD-11 was transfer coming from North-America. not sure whether by now Nairobi flights are offered from US soil?
I indeed read somewhere that Sal was being (or: is going to be) dropped by SAA/SAL as refuel stop. funny airport by the away
anyways.. my point was and is, with the so called "roots" of a big part of the American population, the amount of flights offered directly to Africa by American airliners is bleak compared to European offers. that differemce is mainly due to business interests....