flights to south africa

we are hopeing to travel to south africa in february 06' and would like to travel with VS however as far as i know they fly an A340-300 on the jo'burg route and would prefer the A340-600. we are wanting to go to cape town but i think VS have axed this route is this true?

[Decker]

CPT is seasonal - it should be running again in October I believe.

Cape Town restarts on the 30th October according to the VS website so maybe you can return on VS?

Phil (Buffy)

what aircraft operates this route?

[preiffer]

Originally posted by JO5H777
what aircraft operates this route?

Just tried random dates on expertflyer.com:

10/10 - No VS flight
10/11 - No VS flight
10/12 - No VS flight
10/01 - No VS flight
10/02 - VS 603, Operated by A343

thanks for your help are the A343's fitted with modern interiors as the photos on the net show tiny PTV'S. do any have the slim line seats with 9'' PTV'S

thanks

Originally posted by JO5H777
thanks for your help are the A343's fitted with modern interiors as the photos on the net show tiny PTV'S. do any have the slim line seats with 9'' PTV'S

thanks

No the 9" PTV's are on V:Port planes - none of the A340-300 fleet have V:Port [:(]

A343's either have Odyssey or Arcadia IFE.

Arcadia is (slowly) being phased out, so chances of Odyssey should increase over time on the 343 fleet.

Rich.

thanks for all the help i should hope we don't get arcadia after seeing the pics the screens are tiny!

The Cape Town direct route operates from the 30th October 2005 through to 23rd March 2006

The following aircrafts are currently planned to operate

30OCT 05 - 30NOV 05 A343-300

01DEC 05 - 31JAN 06 B747-400

01FEB 06 -24MAR 06 A343-300

When the direct route isn't in operation you can use the codeshare flight from Jo'Burg to Cape Town operated by SAA, and then the VS flight to Jo'Burg. All for the same cost as a direct flight, just a little inconvienent to have to change aircraft