Flyfofa Airways (Pretoria) has signalled its intention to enter the regional African, scheduled passenger services market.

In a filing to the South African International Air Services Council earlier this month, FlyFofa applied for the following return traffic rights out of Johannesburg O.R. Tambo: Gaborone, Botswana (21x weekly); Manzini Matsapha, Swaziland (7x weekly); Lusaka, Zambia (7x weekly); and Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (7x weekly).

From Cape Town it applied for Gaborone, Botswana (7x weekly) and Walvis Bay, Namibia (7x weekly) while from Durban King Shaka, it applied for Gaborone, Botswana (7x weekly) and Maputo, Mozambique (7x weekly).

It has also previously applied for a 5x weekly return service between Johannesburg O.R. Tambo and Maseru, Lesotho.

The requested route authorities cover aircraft exceeding 20,000kgs and include passenger and cargo traffic rights.

The destination cities being targetted by Flyfofa include several that were served by South African Express (XZ, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) prior to its suspension of services.

According to the ch-aviation capacity module, if the requested route authorities are dually granted, Flyfofa would compete with Airlink (South Africa) (4Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) and its partner South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) which, together with Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo), now control almost half of all weekly seats in the South Africa-African market (210,400 out of 482,018 seats/week).

Using Beech (twin turboprop) King Airs, Flyfofa currently specializes in passenger and cargo charter operations with medevac and flight-training services to boot. Although it is certified for commercial light aircraft and helicopter operations, whether it has sec