Beech, SAA will operate the southbound sectors direct form the USA- but not all of them.
You are quite correct there will definitely be a new destination added in North America- no prizes for guessing where. Just a quick thank you to DL here for forcing the chief’s hand to move this forward by a year. Don’t want to spill all the beans but there is no doubt that we will need extra crew going forward- its just going to depend on the speed of implementation. We have enough capacity to launch what we want next year- after that its all up to when we get the aircraft. In the mean time additional utilization may force the door open. We lined up a juicy wet lease for one of the 744’s that we had to shelve because we didn’t have enough crew to operate the schedule our partner wanted (It will now operate CPT LHR over the peak season instead so it wasn’t too bad I suppose)- perhaps this may be the catalyst.
You are so right, attitudes will soon change when the phone starts to ring.
