Air Madagascar will suspend its line Antananarivo - Johannesburg

The Madagascar national airline announced this step to travel agencies this week. Thus, the connections between the capital of Madagascar and the South African city will be interrupted on January 8, 2020. At the origin of this new suspension, a filling rate quite low, and in turn a lack of profitability. Since June 2019, the airline offers two weekly flights (Monday and Saturday) on this route. It serves this corridor in Boeing 737-800 and is in competition with South African Airways which connects the two cities, every day of the week in Embraer 170/190.

The revival of this line, which occurred four years after a previous suspension, was part of Air Madagascar's plan, initiated by its shareholder Air Austral, which holds 49% of the shares.

With a fleet of 11 aircraft, it currently operates to Paris and Marseille France, Guangzhou China, Moroni Comoros and Reunion Island. Its domestic network is operated in complementarity with its domestic subsidiary, Tsaradia.