{"id":817344,"date":"2025-03-17T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=817344"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:07:58","slug":"flysafair-launches-new-route-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/817344\/flysafair-launches-new-route-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FlySafair launches new route in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Low-cost airline, FlySafair has launched a new route between Lanseria International Airport and George Airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline will operate daily flight on this route, departing Lanseria at 10h10 in the morning, arriving at George at 12h20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will then be a flight departing George at 12h55 and arriving at Lanseria at 14h55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flights on this route commenced on 14 March 2025, with ticket pricing starting at R1,162, the group said. Terms and conditions apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FlySafair said that George, a small town in the Western Cape, is a gateway to the greater Garden Route, and is particularly popular with golfers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;George itself is a picturesque, sleepy town. Golfers are especially spoilt in this area, which has a wide range of world-renowned courses between Mossel Bay and Plettenberg Bay,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Airport is also the closest airport to the popular towns of Knysna, Groot Brak, and Oudtshoorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new route is expected to appeal to both business and leisure travellers in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFollowing our commitment to expand and optimize our network, we are thrilled to introduce this new route,\u201d said Kirby Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer at FlySafair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a growing demand for travel between Lanseria and George, and we are pleased to offer our customers more choices and flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Route details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\"><thead><tr><th>Flight<\/th><th>Departs<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Time<\/th><th>Arrives<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Time<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Flight FA 356<\/strong><\/td><td>Lanseria<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10h10<\/td><td>George<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">12h20<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Flight FA 357<\/strong><\/td><td>George<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">12h55<\/td><td>Lanseria<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">14h55<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delays now over<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The new route has launched at a stressful time for the airline. Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) alerted passengers of delays and longer check-in times due to a systems outage over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue has now been resolved, ACSA said, and normal check-ins should be back in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACSA said that an unspecified &#8220;systems issue&#8221; impacted FlySafair and competing low-cost carrier LIFT on Saturday and Sunday, where schedules were being maintained on backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technical teams for the airlines are on high alert and are monitoring the systems to ensure smooth operations, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost carrier FlySafair has launched a new route between Joburg and the Garden Route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":816803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[10020],"class_list":["post-817344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-flysafair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817350,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817344\/revisions\/817350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}