South African non-stop Beijing flights
South African Airways launched non-stop flights to Beijing yesterday, a move it said would cement ties with China which has become South Africa’s largest trade partner.
The state-owned airline said it will make three round-trips a week on the Johannesburg-Beijing route, a roughly 15-hour flight, operating an Airbus A340-600.
The new link will boost trade and tourism within the 15-nation Southern African Development Community, and also between the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, SAA chief Siza Mzimela said in a statement.
China became South Africa’s top trade partner in 2009. It imported goods worth 78.4 billion rand (USD 10.1 billion, 7.6 billion euros) from SAfrica last year and exported 94.2 billion rand.
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