Mango airlines will commence a new route between Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg and Durban in October.

The low-cost carrier says it will also add another flight on its Lanseria/Cape Town route.

Mango spokesperson, Hein Kaiser, welcomed the growth in passenger demand at the airport over the last two years. He added that the company had experienced good load factors, across the schedule and that it expected the additional Cape Town flight and Durban route to stimulate further growth. The latter route will be operated twice daily while a single early morning flight will depart Cape Town for Lanseria daily.

“A fundamental cornerstone of low-cost aviation is asset utilisation; if you are not flying, you are not earning,” he explained. “Mango holds the lowest cost base in the domestic market and additional frequencies and network expansion further reduces input costs.”