Local low cost carrier launches new routes

South African low cost carrier FlySafair announced on Friday that it was launching new routes on its network. These will be between Durban and East London and Durban and Port Elizabeth. The new routes will be in operation by the end of November. The decision to implement these routes followed a survey of 29 000 unique respondents. This survey was carried out to determine which, out of a number of proposed alternative routes, the public most desired. The routes offered included the above mentioned two, as well as Cape Town-Bloemfontein, Cape Town-Nelspruit, Durban-George, Lanseria-Bloemfontein and Lanseria-Cape Town. The most popular of the proposed routes, supported by 54% of those surveyed, was, in fact, Cape Town-Nelspruit. The two routes chosen for implementation came second (Durban-East London, 15%) and third (Durban-Port Elizabeth, 12%).