United Airways Applies to Launch Historic, First-Ever Nonstop Service between Washington, D.C. and Cape City

CHICAGO, Could 19, 2022 – United Airways introduced at present it has filed an software with the U.S. Division of Transportation (DOT) for 3 weekly nonstop flights between Washington, D.C. and Cape City, South Africa. If authorised, United’s flights will turn out to be the primary nonstop service ever between Washington D.C. and South Africa’s legislative capital, Cape City. This long-overdue route will profit necessary government-to-government connections and enhance communication and commerce with a area that has robust cultural ties to South Africa.

United’s proposed service would start Nov. 17, 2022, and function on 787-9 plane, maximized to satisfy shopper demand and profit each U.S. and South African vacationers. If authorised, the flights between Dulles and Cape City will join 55 cities throughout the US to Cape City, representing greater than 90 % of all the U.S. journey demand to Cape City. United’s Washington Dulles hub is a gateway to the nation’s capital and elsewhere, working greater than 230 day by day flights to almost 100 locations around the globe – together with greater than 10 world capitals and new service to Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria.

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“From creating new jobs, to supporting key civic and assist organizations, United has taken large delight in rising our household and operations in South Africa, and throughout the African continent,” mentioned Patrick Quayle, United’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Community and Alliances. “If awarded by the DOT, this historic nonstop service will considerably improve journey choices for shoppers, strengthen ties between our nations legislative and diplomatic epicenters, and profit thriving journey and tourism industries serving our respective nations.”

 United has labored diligently to develop an African community to advertise competitors and supply inexpensive and constant service choices for U.S. vacationers. The service will complement United’s present flights to 4 cities in three nations in Africa. It can additionally enable clients to attach in Cape City to different factors in South Africa, and to different nations within the southern area of the African continent with its South African based mostly associate Airlink and their Cape City hub.  

The Washington D.C. to Cape City route is the biggest between the U.S. and South Africa with out nonstop service. D.C. is the second largest level within the U.S. for Cape City demand and holds the fifth largest South-African-born inhabitants. United’s proposed weekly flights will handle this hole and complement United’s present South Africa service between New York/Newark and Cape City and Johannesburg, offering practically day by day service to Cape City supplied by a single provider.

United additionally maintains a detailed relationship with the Mandela Basis and BPESA (Enterprise Processing Enabling South Africa) a not-for-profit firm that serves because the trade physique and commerce affiliation for International Enterprise Companies in South Africa. United just lately introduced a collaboration with journey firm Licensed Africa. Licensed Africa’s mission is to make journey to African nations simple, immersive, and life altering for thousands and thousands of the African Diaspora throughout the US.