St Helena is one of the world’s most remote islands, and home to the world’s oldest living land animal, Jonathan the tortoise.
Airlink announced on Friday morning that it will be resuming direct flights between Cape Town and the remote St Helena Island from December 2024 until March 2025.
Flights to the secluded paradise are only available from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport.
The Cape Town flights will supplement the existing flights between St Helena and Johannesburg, and will depart on Saturdays from Cape Town International airport.
“In the six years since Airlink was awarded the contract to operate air services between St Helena and the African mainland, we have seen a steady post-Covid recovery and rise in demand for travel to and from the island,” said Airlink CEO Rodger Foster in a statement.
Foster added the airline initially started as a weekly service, but that they have since introduced a seasonal second-weekly service to cover the summer holiday…