Bluegrass Airlines, July 2010
’58
South Africa Domestic Routes
by
Allan Lowson
As the 2010 is heading towards the Final on July 11th
we will take a look a couple of the domestic routes of South African Airways
(SAA) from 1958. Routes 1 and 2 connect Johannesburg and Cape Town and take in
the locations of six of the World Cup stadia.
The remaining four stadia in the North of South Africa can be linked
with a special charter from and back to Johannesburg, so we’ve set that up too.
In the Union of South African Major Millar formed a
private company in 1929, Union Airways, to provide air services between Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Johannesburg predominantly for mail transport.
These services started with de Havilland Gipsy Moths and were later
supplemented by Junkers F.13s and W.34s. Union Airways was bought by South
African Airways, a government concern, as a subsidiary of South African
Railways in 1934. In 1937 SAA participated in the Empire Air Mail service and
from this grew the airline routes to Europe.
Cape Town-Johannesburg (Route 1)
|
Heading |
Distance |
SA310(Thu4) |
SA308
(Fri-5) |
City Name |
ICAO |
|
064 |
0 |
0745 |
0745 |
Cape Town
|
FACT |
|
- |
228 |
- |
0905 arr |
Beaufort
West |
FABW |
|
024 |
0 |
- |
0920 dep |
Beaufort
West |
FABW |
|
- |
59 |
- |
0950 arr |
Victoria
West |
FAVW |
|
028 |
0 |
- |
1005 dep |
Victoria
West |
FAVW |
|
- |
177 |
1015 arr |
- |
Kimberley |
FAKM |
|
102 |
0 |
1045 dep |
- |
Kimberley |
FAKM |
|
- |
83 |
1110 arr |
1055 arr |
Bloemfontein |
FABL |
|
030 |
0 |
1140 dep |
1120 dep |
Bloemfontein |
FABL |
|
- |
204 |
1300 |
1230 |
Johannesburg |
FAJS |
Johannesburg-Durban-Port Elizabeth-Cape Town (Route 2)
|
Heading |
Distance |
SA317/324 |
SA323
(2/5/7) |
City Name |
ICAO |
|
148 |
0 |
0745 |
- |
Johannesburg |
FAJS |
|
- |
271 |
0930 |
- |
Durban |
FADN |
|
220 |
0 |
1000 |
- |
Durban |
FADN |
|
- |
244 |
1135 arr |
- |
East London |
FAEL |
|
242 |
0 |
1150 dep |
- |
East London |
FAEL |
|
- |
125 |
1245 arr |
- |
Port Elizabeth |
FAPE |
|
268 |
0 |
1315 dep |
1310 |
Port Elizabeth |
FAPE |
|
- |
161 |
- |
1425 arr |
George |
FAGG |
|
338 |
0 |
- |
1445 dep |
George |
FAGG |
|
- |
26 |
- |
1515 arr |
Outsdhourn
|
FAOH |
|
261 |
0 |
- |
1535 dep |
Outsdhourn
|
FAOH |
|
- |
180 |
1530 |
1700 |
Cape Town
|
FACT |
2010 World Cup Northern Stadium Tour
|
Heading |
Distance |
City Name |
ICAO |
|
307 |
0 |
Rand (Jo’burg) |
FAGM |
|
047 |
59 |
Rustenburg |
FARG |
|
126 |
126 |
Polokwane |
FAPP |
|
265 |
130 |
Nelspruit |
FANS |
|
178 |
146 |
Pretoria |
FAWB |
|
- |
30 |
Johannesburg |
FAJS |
The timetable routes come from www.timetableimages.com
The Cape Town to Johannesburg inland Route 1 was
served for the flights below by DC-4 Skymaster
aircraft, as were flights SA317 and SA324 from Route 2 which runs down the
coast. Flight SA323 from Port Elizabeth down to Cape Town used the DC-3.
In 1958 SAA also flew a direct service along Route 1
between Cape Town and Johannesburg with Constellations.
In addition SAA also had de Havilland Dove aircraft,
and these and the DC-3 are probably the most appropriate for the charter round
the Northern airfields.
The
SAA DC-4 is contained in Jens Kristensen’s
dv4_v21.zip for both FS2004 and FSX.
The
DC-3 for SAA is covered by dc3saa.zip for the default FS2004 DC-3 and maamsaak.zip for the MAAM-SIM DC-3 from flightsim.com.
A
scheme for the de Havilland Dove for SAA is available from flightsim.com in saa_dove.zip.