Airlink Jet Service Launches Johannesburg-Richards Bay Route

South African based airline company, Airlink is advancing its Johannesburg-Richards Bay service with the introduction of jetliner flights on the route.

The boosted service will see a significant increase in capacity with the introduction of Airlink’s comfortable, quiet and reliable 74-seat Embraer E170 jetliners replacing the 29-seat Jetstream 41 turboprop aircraft.

With the introduction of a jet service, flight time on the route is set to be reduced by up to 30 minutes. 

“Richards Bay is crucial to South Africa’s economy and it requires reliable and efficient air services, like Airlink’s, to connect the city’s businesses and those dependant on it with other markets and economic centres.   We are also keeping the promise we made to our partners, the City of uMhlathuze and the KwaZulu-Natal government, to deploy larger aircraft on the route once there was sufficient demand,” said Airlink CEO and managing director, Rodger Foster.

Airlink serves a comprehensive network of more than 45 destinations throughout Southern Africa offering customers more freedom, more choices, and more travel opportunities with more connectivity than any other airline in Southern Africa.