Air Belgium is launching South Africa's first direct connection to Brussels, in September, thanks to a Chinese investment.
, allowing it to secure the planes to expand its limited, holiday-passenger service.
Two-way passenger data showed that Brussels was historically the biggest European market for Cape Town not served with a direct route, Wesgro said, with passengers connecting either via major European hubs such as Paris or Amsterdam, or via more far-flung hubs such as Dubai., at around €310 each way to Johannesburg, and around €330 each way to Cape Town, making for roughly R5,000 for each leg of a return flight.
The flights are scheduled to take advantage of the annual migration of Europeans seeking warmer climes as the northern hemisphere winter sets in, something Air Belgium does for those heading to the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, and the Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire. Meanwhile, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines this week said it was increasing the frequency of its flights between Cape Town and Amsterdam, and would be flying daily from 11 July.
It was seeing greater demand for seats to Cape Town,"which remains popular with tourists", KLM said.
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