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Being a top tourist spot, South Africa attracts crowd all through the year. Sufficing to the needs of the tourists there are plenty of airlines offering grade one services and unmatchable connectivity. The South African government acquired Union Airways and it was in the year 1934 that South Africa got an airline for itself.

UAE countries have seen a tremendous growth and this definitely happened because of the people travelling from here to other parts of the world. The South African Airways which is the national flag carrier of South Africa flies to Abu Dhabi and Dubai which are the prime emirates of UAE. There is Economy and Business classes in these flights and have daily flights to these cities.

South African Airlines: Oldest and Busiest in the Aviation Industry!

Even in the year 1934, it had weekly flights to cities like Kimberley and Windhoek. It was in this year that they ordered for the Junkers JU 52/3m aircrafts. Later on between the years 1946 to 1952 they started the first inter-continental flight services.

The major expansion of the company started in the year 1974 and the first Boeing 707 flights were scheduled to Hong Kong via Seychelles Islands. The South African Airlines started rebranding in the late 1990 and thereafter they started getting codeshare agreements with other airlines which proved ideal for their expansion.

Today, covering a total of 43 destinations with a fleet size of 65, the South African Airways has become one of the star members in the star alliance group. OR Tambo International Airport is the prime hub of this airline.