South African Airways has announced plans to realign its South America network operations.
The route rationalization exercise is part of SAA’s on-going business enhancement processes and enables the airline to match capacity with demand across its entire network. In some markets SAA has been able to deploy bigger aircraft as well as increase frequencies in order to satisfy demand.
SAA currently operates 10 non-stop flights between Johannesburg and Sao Paulo (Brazil) with double daily flights on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (Johannesburg departures), and Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays (Sao Paulo departures).
It will drop the three nighttime departures from Johannesburg-Sao Paulo-Johannesburg (SA224/SA225) from the schedule.
The simple daily flight schedule comprises of flight numbers SA222 and SA223.
SA222 departs Johannesburg at 11h15 and lands in Brazil at 17h00. Flight SA223 leaves Sao Paulo at 18h00 and arrives in Johannesburg at 17h25.