About Airlink - 32 Years of Operations

As Southern Africa’s leading airline, Airlink provides comprehensive, safe, and reliable air transportation services, enabling socio-economic development by connecting people with each other and facilitating trade within the region and beyond.

Vision Statement

• Airlink is privately owned and independent.
• Our customers are our purpose.
• Our business is the provision of unrivaled travel choices
• We aspire to being relevant and prominent and to delivering extraordinary and memorable travel experiences, premised on great service.
• “Big” is not a measure that resonates with us, but “Best” is.
• Airlink strives to provide world class air transportation services.
• We will meet or exceed the highest standards in safety, reliability, quality and punctuality through our commitment, professionalism and efficiency.
• We continuously innovate and refine our service to equal or supersede global best practice.
• Our unique value proposition includes convenient flight connections across the widest network of destinations, enabling air nexus in collaboration with the world’s best airlines.
• We aim to contribute to the travel industry locally and regionally by fostering a customer-centric partner-inclusive ecosystem.
• Airlink pursues responsible profitability that engenders social, economic and environmental sustainability across the entire air transportation and tourism value chain.
• Honesty, integrity and a positive work ethic are our core values.
• Teamwork, mutual respect, humility and equity guide our culture and our conduct.

• Privately owned.
• More than 45 routes.
• More then 65 aircraft in the fleet, ability to swop aircraft in the event of a delay.
• Complimentary onboard catering including choice of beverages.
• 20kg free check in baggage allowance for Economy Class.
• 30kg free check in baggage allowance for Business Class.
• 15kg of additional free sporting equipment at no extra cost.
• Choice of window or aisle seat, no middle seat.
• More than 3 million customers per year.
• Over 70,000 scheduled flights per annum.
• Level 5 BBBEE.
• Punctuality consistently at over 90%.
• Widest network and choice of flights.
• Financially independent and not reliant on State Subvention for subsistence.
• Consistently and responsibly profitable during its 32 years of operations.
• Intra-continental styled Business Class on select routes and flights.
• Member of IATA (International Air Transportation Association) and IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit programme) accredited.
• Over 400 aircraft engineers and maintenance specialists.
• Largest fleet of commercial jet airliners in Southern Africa.
• 430 Airlink flight deck and cabin crew, of whom 204 are female.

• We are privately owned, financially independent and not reliant on State Subvention for subsistence. This includes our 350,000 previously disadvantaged families from the Sishen, Sishen South and Thabazimbi areas.

• We have been consistently and responsibly profitable during 30 years of operations.

• We are the largest regional airline in our sub region, operating an extensive network, connecting South African cities and towns to countries including Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, eSwatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe as well as to the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
• With the widest network and choice of flights, and the largest fleet of over 65 commercial jet airliners in Southern Africa, our customers also enjoy intra-continental styled business class on our E-jets, operating select routes and flights.

• We have a fleet of more than 65 aircraft.
• Airlink flights are rarely late and never cancelled. We understand that our customer’s most important criteria for choosing Airlink over other operators is punctuality. Airlink is consistently ranked as one of the two top airlines for on-time operation in South Africa’s skies. We know that to cancel a flight without there being very sound reasons, outside of the airline’s direct control to do so, is extremely distressing to our customers because of the disruption it causes to their travel plans.

• We employ a team of 430 flight deck and cabin crew, of whom 204 are female. They are trained in our own state-of-the-art Flight Training Centre located in Bonaero Park, Johannesburg.
• The complex includes 3 aircraft simulators, cabin trainers and other procedural aids and classrooms providing the opportunity for comprehensive training from early ab initio crews starting their careers in flying to bi-annual recurrent/refresher training as well as type training as a part of career progression.

• We are a member of IATA (International Air Transport Association) and is IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit program).
• accredited. We are IOSA conformant and have been since 2006.

• We are certified level 5 BBBEE. To view our BBBEE certificate – DOWNLOAD