{"id":96555,"date":"2015-08-24T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=96555"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:16:23","slug":"new-sa-airline-to-launch-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/96555\/new-sa-airline-to-launch-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"New SA airline to launch next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_dwd st s std\">Fly Blue Crane<\/span>, a new South African airline, is set to launch on 1 September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says that in addition to highly competitive fares, its advanced online technologies will make the booking and travel process fuss-free<\/p>\n<p>The company will fly between OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg to Bloemfontein, Kimberley and Nelspruit from next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FlyBlueCrane website will be open for bookings from 7pm on Tuesday 25 August 2015,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Blue Crane is the brainchild of CEO Siza Mzimela, who served as chief executive officer of SAA between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>During its launch phase, the airline would operate 50-seater Embraer Regional Jet 145 (ERJ) aircraft in a single class configuration.<\/p>\n<p>The airline will be based at OR Tambo, flying to Bloemfontein, five times a day during the week, twice on Saturdays, and three times on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>It will fly to Kimberley three times a day during the week, once on Saturdays, and twice on Sundays; and Nelspruit, twice daily Mondays to Fridays, once on Saturdays, and once on Sundays.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on airlines in SA<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/90700\/best-and-worst-airlines-in-south-africa\/\">Best and worst airlines in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/90478\/airline-carry-on-luggage-to-get-smaller\/\">Airline carry-on luggage to get smaller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84159\/budget-airline-raises-75-million-for-sa-expansion\/\">Budget airline raises $75 million for SA expansion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fly Blue Crane, a new South African based airline, is set to launch on 1 September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[10373,26],"class_list":["post-96555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fly-blue-crane","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96555","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=96555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96567,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96555\/revisions\/96567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}