African Travel Solutions “News Update on Flights to Malawi with SAA”

South African Airways announces new great value, year-round fares from London to Malawi

South African Airways, in association with Malawi Department of Tourism, is offering discounted fares from London to Malawi from £604 return*, saving up to £149 on the typical fare.

The year-round, competitive fares include:
• £604 return flight to Malawi’s Lilongwe International Airport (LLW), saving up to £149
• £624 return flight to Malawi’s Chileka International Airport (BLZ), saving up to £129

Travellers can purchase the discounted fares for travel between now and until 13th July 2015, from 19th August to 12th December 2015 and then from 25th December 2015 to 31st March 2016 to experience the animal kingdoms, beautiful natural attractions and unique culture of Malawi.

“Malawi is a wonderful destination for those seeking a variety of experiences in a relatively small geographical area,” says Ian Musyani, Malawi High Commission. “Highlights for travellers include Lake Malawi, exotic wildlife, superb landscapes and of course our greatest assets: the welcoming and vibrant people of Malawi.”

Serving Malawi’s capital city of Lilongwe, Kamuzu International Airport is an ideal starting point for exploring Malawi because of its central position in the country. Wildlife Reserves and the famed Lake Malawi just a couple of hours away, whilst the wonders of the more remote northern parts of the country and the better known south are each half a day’s drive. Chileka International Airport, serving Malawi’s second-largest city of Blantyre, offers travellers access to the southern part of the country- where the greatest concentration of attractions is found, including Mount Mulanje, central Africa’s highest mountain nicknamed ‘the island in the sky’, a number of national parks and wildlife reserves and the southern shores of Lake Malawi.

The national carrier for South Africa, South African Airways offers double daily flights to Johannesburg from London Heathrow’s newest Terminal 2, and onto Lilongwe International Airport five times a week.

For more information, and a full list of South African Airways Sale Fares, please visit www.flysaa.com or call 0844 375 9680. For more information about SAA, visit www.flysaa.com or call 0844 375 9680/ @SAA_UK / www.facebook.com/SouthAfricanAirwaysUnitedKingdom

*subject to availability

About SAA:
South African Airways (SAA), Africa’s most awarded airline, operates double daily flights from Heathrow to Johannesburg and beyond to over 30 destinations in Southern Africa. In its domestic market SAA has an extensive schedule operating 556 flights in total per week between Johannesburg – Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth, from its Johannesburg hub, as well as code-shared flights between Lanseria – Cape Town and Durban. SAA offers more frequencies than any other airline in South Africa. Regionally, SAA offers 24 destinations across the African continent including Abidjan, Accra, Blantyre, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Entebbe, Harare, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lilongwe, Livingstone, Luanda, Lusaka, Maputo, Mauritius, Nairobi, Ndola, Pointe Noire, Victoria Falls and Windhoek.

SAA’s operates to 40 destinations worldwide via an international network that creates links to all major continents from South Africa through 11 direct routes and code shares, with daily flights from Johannesburg to London (Heathrow), Frankfurt, Munich, Mumbai, Perth, Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, Washington, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. SAA has codes share agreements with 27 other airlines across the markets it serves. The airline has extended its code share agreement with Mango, its low cost operator, to also include coastal cities in South Africa (between Johannesburg and Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and George), as well as Johannesburg – Bloemfontein; Cape Town – Bloemfontein and Cape Town – Port Elizabeth.

SAA’s core business is the provision of passenger airline and cargo transport services together with related services, which are provided through SAA and its four wholly owned subsidiaries: SAA Technical; Mango its low cost carrier; Air Chefs, the catering entity of SAA and South African Travel Centre (SATC).

SAA is a Star Alliance member which offers more than 21, 900 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries. SAA is the winner of the ‘Best Airline in Africa’ Award in the regional category for eleven consecutive years. Mango and SAA hold the number one and number two successive spots as South Africa’s most on-time airlines.