South African Airways and Emirates are set to reactivate long-standing partnership
South Africa's national airline, South African Airways (SAA), and the largest airline of the United Arab Emirates, Emirates, are set to reactivate its long-standing partnership which started in 1997. The two airlines are working towards increasing alignment across products, services and reactivation of synergies between loyalty programmes, and will be initially kicking off with a reciprocal commercial arrangement. The agreement includes South African Airways-coded and Emirates-operated routes between South Africa and Dubai on a single ticket, enabling travellers to seamlessly check-in their bags to their final destinations from 01 October 2021. Emirates will also place South African Airways' SAA code on major trunk routes between South Africa and Dubai.
In the coming months, plans are underway to expand cooperation and solidify the partnership even further on more domestic and regional points in Africa as South African Airways expands its operations, while Emirates will also reciprocally add more options for South African Airways customers to connect to select destinations within its network on one itinerary. We'll keep you posted!
