Zambian privately owned airline Proflight Zambia has announced that it will resume scheduled flights between the central southern African country’s capital, Lusaka, and Durban.
The flight between South Africa’s third major metropolitan hub city and Lusaka is set to boost the airline.
Durban is known as South Africa’s number one port and major tourist destination as it is located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The flights will restart on April 6 and will be operated twice weekly, initially on Thursdays and Sundays, although the Sunday flights will only start on April 16.
BusinessTech Africa has discovered that there will be a special flight on April 11, for people returning from Easter weekends.
“Tourism numbers have shown a notable growth of 38% between 2021 and 2022 indicating strong tourism recovery between Zambia and South Africa, while over the same period South African exports to Zambia grew by R1.6-billion, information that is all a positive sign for Proflight Zambia opening this air service,” affirmed the airline.
Although small by South African standards, Proflight Zambia is that country’s number one scheduled airline.
Proflight also provides charter services, it was founded in 1991 and is based in Lusaka. Domestically, it operates scheduled services between Lusaka and Livingstone, the Lower Zambesi airstrips at Jeki and Royal, Mansa, Mfuwe, Ndola, and Solwezi.
Internationally, it already operates services between Lusaka and Johannesburg, and Ndola and Johannesburg.
“The airline has a fleet of eight aircraft. These are three Bombardier CRJ-100/200 regional jets, four Jetstream 41 regional turboprop airliners, and one Jetstream 32 turboprop,” reports Engineering News.
“The CRJ-100/200s can carry 50 passengers each, the Jetstream 41s can carry 29 passengers each and the Jetstream 32 can carry 18 passengers. The Lusaka-Durban service will be operated with CRJ-200 airliners.”
