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Old 14th May 2008, 11:41 AM
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South African Airways (SAA) aims to meet Australia’s growing demand for South Africa by providing daily services from Sydney and Perth to Johannesburg by 2010.

SAA currently operates direct services between Sydney and Johannesburg as part of a codeshare with Qantas. It also has direct services from Perth on SAA aircraft. Plans to increase the number of direct Sydney services from five to seven flights per week by April 2009 will use Qantas aircraft.

Direct flights to Perth, which aim to be in place by 2010, will use SAA’s own aircraft. But non-stop services to Sydney using SAA aircraft would depend on the availability of aircraft and fuel prices, the carrier said.

“Australian growth was 6.9% last year, which was one of our best results on record, but it is currently economically viable for us to operate through Qantas,” said Thevan Krishna, head of Australasia for South African Airways. “With the fuel prices at the moment it’s becoming quite risky to look at new routes.”

SAA said it will also look at better aligning flight times out of Australia to stimulate further demand. SAA is moving to a mixture of A340-200s and A340-300s for some of its Perth services, and from November to January SAA will use an A340-600 on the Perth route.
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Old 14th May 2008, 12:25 PM
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How many years has it been now since we heard the 'Springbok 280/1' callsign in Sydney?
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Old 14th May 2008, 11:27 PM
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saw the SAA depart this morning from perth...

was walking between classes and i was in the right place...it was flying pretty low (lower than another couple i saw today), and dam it was LOUD!
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Old 19th May 2008, 09:20 PM
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Nigel - about 7 years - the last SAA photo at YSSY on A.Net is of a SAA 747SP by Craig Murray dated 06/01/2001.
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Old 19th May 2008, 09:55 PM
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Its amazing there are still 747SP's flying around...surely they would be in very bad shape!
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Old 19th May 2008, 11:09 PM
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Rhys, Michael didn't say they are still flying 747SP's. He said they used to fly them here 7 years ago.

SAA no longer have the SP's in their fleet.


For information on B747SP operators (both current and past), see http://www.747sp.com/Operators.asp
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Old 19th May 2008, 11:36 PM
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Its amazing there are still 747SP's flying around...surely they would be in very bad shape!
what is it with everyone thinking that because something has age behind it it's automatically in bad shape?
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Old 19th May 2008, 11:42 PM
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what is it with everyone thinking that because something has age behind it it's automatically in bad shape?
You hearing that a lot lately Monty?

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Old 19th May 2008, 11:44 PM
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Rhys, Michael didn't say they are still flying 747SP's. He said they used to fly them here 7 years ago.

SAA no longer have the SP's in their fleet.


For information on B747SP operators (both current and past), see http://www.747sp.com/Operators.asp
SAA dont operate any form of B747 at all do they?
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Old 20th May 2008, 12:27 AM
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According to http://www.planespotters.net/Airline...frican-Airways they do (assuming the information is up to date). 5 747-400's all up with 2 in storage.

Also see http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/S...%20Airways.htm
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