Jet Airways bound for Durban?

 Air India to resume South Africa flights from mid-2006

BY A CORRESPONDENT
April 19, 2006

Jet Airways is likely to start services to South Africa. India's international carrier Air India is also resuming its services to Durban soon. Air India's Durban flights are to resume by June-July 2006.

This was revealed y Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal in Durban. He was speaking at an India trade exhibition in cape Town, where he mentioned that Air India, "and an Indian private airline" will soon start flying to South Africa. Currently, the only airline with overseas flying rights is Jet Airways, which has acquired Air Sahara, another airline which had similar rights.

Currently, only South African Airways operates flights between India and South Africa. India, which had started flights to South Africa in 1994 at the end of Apartheid, had stopped services some years later. Now, with more aircraft set to join the Air India fleet, the airline can devote some time to expanding its route network.