The great news leaked to South African trade and tourism officials by the Lufthansa office in South Africa and the flights will commence with soon-to-arrive fleet of A380s to Johannesburg on an initial three-times-a-week basis, when the four expected giant aircraft due for delivery have been received by Germany’s flag carrier.
A growing volume of cargo and passenger traffic to and from South Africa has prompted Lufthansa to choose JNB as their first – and for the time being surely ONLY – African A380 destination, after recently announcing the deployment of the new aircraft also to Tokyo and Beijing.Operations are set to begin from 25th October this year on the Frankfurt-Johannesburg route.
More than 76 million passengers fly with Lufthansa each year.
A380. But illustrated with a 747-8. Huh???
And they plan to operate their Boeing 747-400's on German internal flights. Is this economically viable? 747's have to stay in the air for thousands of miles & at 37'000 feet to make money.