Kulula have been restricted down to 1 flight per day on the Windhoek - Johannesburg route. The goverment allowed them to operate the route after careful investigation concluding it would not affect the passenger numbers for their own national airline, Air Namibia. However, South African Airways, a popular airline with a good reputation and a large fleet, who would want more daily fequencies on the route if they were to go low-cost, would clearly, in the Namibian goverment's eyes, be the inital carrier for the route and in that way, steal passengers from Air Namibia and "take over" the route. The Goverment will not let that happen.