SAA expands codeshare with Ethiopian

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South African Airways and Ethiopian Airlines, both members of Star Alliance, have expanded the codeshare service agreement they inked on 1 October by adding Cape Town, Durban and Toronto (Canada) as additional destinations to the existing codeshare flights.

Besides Toronto as the additional destination on offer, the expanded codeshare now also offers a direct service between Addis Ababa and both Cape Town and Durban. These routes will be operated by Ethiopian Airlines, with SAA as the marketing carrier.

The two airlines already codeshare from Addis Ababa to Johannesburg and from Addis Ababa to Bamako (Mali), with all these flights operated by Ethiopian aircraft. In return, the East African carrier codeshares on SAA’s aircraft between Johannesburg and Cape Town and Durban, and Windhoek (Namibia). The routing Addis Ababa-Johannesburg is operated by Ethiopian, while the Johannesburg-Cape Town and Johannesburg-Durban legs are operated by SAA.