South Africa’s newest low-cost airline, Skywise, has announced that, due to popular demand, it will move its first commercial flight, initially scheduled to take off on 16 March 2015, to 5 March.. Tickets for the Skywise flights went on sale in mid-February. At first, the new, low-cost carrier will operate only two daily flights between Cape Town International and Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International. However, the airline promises that expansions will follow within the first three months of operation, adding routes to Durban to the schedule. Tickets range between R498 and R1 495 per seat, one way. To begin with, Skywise will operate 50 flights a week, and hopes to carry more than 25 000 passengers a month. The arrival of the airline in South Africa has been well received by the public due to its “bags fly free” policy. The first official Skywise flight, which carried school children adopted by the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, took place on 11 February. www.skywise.co.za
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