Today has South African sitting on phones trying to grab one of 30,000 ‘FlySafair’ tickets for R1.00! Celebrating their 1st successful birthday, ‘FlySafair’ are sharing the spoils along with their passengers by offering tickets for an unbelievable R1.00 that includes airport taxes!
And besides that amazing offer comes the exiting news of another new low-cost airline, ‘Fly Blue Crane’, with booking opening tonight from 19h00 for travel from 1st September. This brand new airline is offering travellers’ affordable comfortable flights with first class service, complimentary meals and a fast easy check-in routine.
‘Fly Blue Crane’ has its base in Johannesburg and is a subsidiary of the charter ‘Blu Crane Air’ company. At its helm is experienced CEO Siza Mzimela, formerly CEO to ‘SA Express’ and ‘SAA’ with additional expertise alongside him of ex ‘SAA’ executives Jerome Simelane and Theunis Potgieter.
Commencing its initial launch phase on 1st September with three flight paths, flying an ‘Embraer Regional Jet 145’ with fifty seats, ‘Fly Blue Crane’ will depart from ‘OR Tambo’ to Kimberley, Nelspruit and Bloemfontein.
Covering passenger needs, Nelspruit will see the airline from Monday to Friday twice a day with one flight on a Saturday and one on a Sunday. The airline will fly to Bloemfontein five times each day in the week with two flights on Saturdays and three on Sundays while Kimberley has the airline arriving three times a day during the week, once on Saturdays and twice on Sundays.
Taking into account all factors relating to passenger needs, statements below, released from ‘Fly Blue Crane’s’ CEO and COO afford hope to South Africans for affordable air travel including much needed air travel competition.
“We aim to make our mark serving the increasingly commercially significant provincial and regional capitals. Our aim in the coming years is to make air travel an altogether better and more rewarding experience in Southern Africa,” said Siza Mzimela, ‘Fly Blue Crane’s’ CEO.
“Fly Blue Crane’s customers can look forward to such a fresh approach to air travel, which blends the best of both worlds without compromising on premium service,” said Theunis Potgieter, ‘Fly Blue Crane’s’ Chief Operations Officer.