South African Airways (SAA) today announced a new routing for its daily flights between Washington (IAD) and Johannesburg (JNB): Accra’s Kotoka International Airport (ACC) will be the stopover for four times a week. South African will reduce Washington to Dakar, (DKR) flights to three times a week. Currently SAA serves the IAD-JNB route with a stopover at Dakar for all seven days. The new schedule takes effect starting August 3, 2015. South African also flies a daily nonstop service between New York JFK and Johannesburg.
It should be noted that Accra was the original stopover when South African started its service to Washington. But it could not secure the fifth freedom rights to pick up passengers between Washington and Accra and hence shifted its operational base to Dakar, Senegal. The router is now being reinstated with rights to carry passengers between Washington and Accra. Washington, DC area is home to the second largest expatriate African population in the United States. Ethiopian Airlines (ET) serves a daily nonstop between Washington and Addis Ababa (ADD).
Both South African and Ethiopian flights arrive early in the morning at Dulles to take advantage of the connections offered by fellow Star Alliance member United Airlines (UA).
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