South Africa Archives

Dedicated cabin and XL seat. Cape Town-Johannesburg review with Airlink

Airlink is a South African airline founded in 1992. When, in the two years prior to the Covid pandemic, the carrier of...

April 10, 2025

4 min by Matteo Legnani - 2 weeks ago

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Network risk: where the new German-driven ITA Airways might fly and with what planes

You know Risk, the game with miniature tanks where you win by conquering a certain number of...

February 8, 2025

3 min by Matteo Legnani - 3 months ago

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Two floors, lavish buffet, wines a go-go and super views of the slopes. Hooray for Cape Town's Slow Lounge

The 'Slow Lounge' brand is South African, and the lounges are found only in South Africa. They were owned by the late...

January 22, 2025

3 min by Matteo Legnani - 3 months ago

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Caught a plane in Alitalia colors in Johannesburg: what was it doing there and who is it going to fly for

The colors of the old Alitalia are becoming increasingly rare to see at airports. As we reported in The Flight...

December 22, 2024

2 min by Matteo Legnani - 4 months ago

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I boarded the Johannesburg-St. Helena. They call it 'the flight with no return': I'll tell you why

Reaching Napoleon's last exile is not an easy coas, flying there is a real experience

December 14, 2024

5 min by Matteo Legnani - 4 months ago

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Aviation style, aircraft views and Marriott Bonvoy points three minutes from terminal: review Protea Hotel Johannesburg OR Tambo

If traveling by air fascinates you (and how could it be otherwise, if you read The Flight Club?) and you find yourself in...

December 13, 2024

4 min by Matteo Legnani - 4 months ago

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I got my first award ticket thanks to Amex points (and the advice of 'Barbone'): in Business to Johannesburg with 70 thousand miles

A year and a half after beginning my collaboration with The Flight Club and less than six months after having...

November 29, 2024

3 min by Matteo Legnani - 5 months ago

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Miles&More also launches "award ticket only" flights: first destination Cape Town

The first was Qantas, which launched the Points Plane in 2019 and then relaunched them on restart after the pandemic....

June 26, 2024

2 min by theflyer - 10 months ago

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Round trip on the same plane: why the flight from Europe to the US is longer than the return

Anyone who has flown in the two directions over the Atlantic between a pair of cities in Europe and North America will...

May 8, 2024

2 min by Matteo Legnani - 12 months ago

Curiosities

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What are a Boeing 787 and six stewardesses in miniskirts doing in the ice of Antarctica?

What were six stewardesses in pantsuits and skirts doing in the middle of the ice on Friday morning? They had just stepped off the jet immortalized at the...

November 21, 2023

1 min by Matteo Legnani - 1 year ago

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South Africa, new rules for tourists: what happens to vaccinated people

Rules for entering South Africa are changing. Moving toward the warm season and with a gradual improvement in the pandemic situation...

April 8, 2022

2 min by Claudio Cafarelli - 3 years ago

goodbye restrictions

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