British Airways has announced that it is growing its African frequencies, improving connectivity through London Heathrow and introducing new products.
For instance, the airline said in West Africa, it would increase its daily services to Ghana by three flights a week from October 27, using Boeing 767s to complement the existing Boeing 777 flights, bringing the total number of weekly services to 10.
This was contained in an email statement obtained on Tuesday, adding that from summer 2014, a larger four-cabin Boeing 747 aircraft would replace a Boeing 777 currently on the route.
It said the airline would also add a fourth weekly service to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
“In East Africa, it will add an additional frequency to Uganda to offer four weekly flights.
“The schedule will be amended to offer better connections to other international services though Terminal 5,” the airline said.
It also said the North African services had been bolstered by a fourth weekly flight to Tripoli.
For the South African customers, it said they were already able to make bookings for the A380, the airline’s largest and most modern aircraft, which would begin flying to Johannesburg on February 12.
It said, “This is only the third A380 route to be announced after Los Angeles and Hong Kong.”
The airline said its services to Cape Town would double from the current daily service to a double-daily operation over the busy South African summer season, noting that the British Airways was the only airline flying directly from Cape Town to London year round.
