The 6 Carriers Working Non-Cease Flights Between Africa & New York JFK Airport

Abstract

• Air Senegal affords the least variety of flights between JFK and Africa, with a complete of 4,572 seats accessible on their Airbus A340-300.
• Ethiopian Airways has virtually twice the variety of flights in comparison with Air Senegal, providing 9,180 seats and flights from JFK to Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
• Kenya Airways affords the best ASMs of all airways working continuous flights from JFK to Africa, with 21,060 seats accessible on their Boeing 787-8 for Nairobi flights.

The busiest airport in New York – the John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) – is an airport out of which greater than seventy airways function. These embody the flag carriers of a number of nations of Europe, the Center East, and the continent whose aviation sector is projected to see pre-pandemic numbers this 12 months – Africa.

There are solely six carriers that function continuous flights between JFK and Africa. 5 of those airways are flag carriers from Africa, and solely a single service primarily based within the US is a competitor. Let’s find out about these intimately.

6 Air Senegal (HC)

The flag service of Senegal has the least variety of direct flights between JFK and Africa

Out of the six carriers which have direct operations between Africa and JFK, Air Senegal has the least variety of flights.

In keeping with knowledge from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, there will probably be a complete of 4,572 seats and 17,510,760 ASMs on Air Senegal’s operations from JFK to Blaise Diagne Worldwide Airport (DSS) in Darkar, Senegal.

The flights are provided on Mondays and Fridays. Delta Air Strains is the one competitor providing direct flights on this route. Whereas Air Senegal chooses to function the Airbus A340-300 on this route, Delta operates the Boeing 767-300 (winglets).

In keeping with flightconnections.com, the earliest flight from JFK to DSS departs at 01:30 and arrives at 13:50 in Dakar. The final flight from JFK, in distinction, departs at 21:10 and arrives at 09:05 at Dakar.

5 Ethiopian Airways (ET)

This flag service of Ethiopia has virtually half the operations than the flag service of Egypt

Ethiopian Airways has virtually twice the variety of direct flights between JFK and Africa in comparison with Air Senegal. The variety of seats can be virtually two instances greater, whereas the ASMs are virtually 3 times larger than these provided by Senegal’s flag service.

Final 12 months, Ethiopian Airways began serving nine-weekly flights to New Jersey and New York. This was the best frequency of this service again then. The flights had been served on the service’s Boeing 787.

Ethiopian Airways affords four-weekly flights from JFK to Abidjan (ABJ), Cote D’Ivore. This practically 5000-mile journey is obtainable on the Boeing 787-8 the airline operates.

In keeping with knowledge from flightroutes.com, there are two different airways that provide one-stop flights from JFK to ABJ.

4 EgyptAir (MS)

EgyptAir operates a 5,599-mile continuous route from JFK to the capital of Egypt

Egypt Air, the state-owned flag service of Egypt, will function 62 flights between Africa and JFK in August 2024. EgyptAir will supply financial system and business-class seats on the 10-hour and 20-minute flight between Cairo and New York on its Boeing 777-300.

EgyptAir has been on the coronary heart of operations between North America and Egypt, with the service working half one million seats in 2021. James Pearson, a journalist for Easy Flying, had additional make clear EgyptAir’s operations between New York and Cairo:

“…. however will hundreds and yields sustain?..EgyptAir serves New York JFK, Toronto, and
Washington Dulles
, partly reflecting the numerous Egyptian diaspora and heritage in wider New York Metropolis..In keeping with the Division of Transport’s T-100 knowledge, Cairo-JFK had an 84.7% seat load think about 2019, greater than the service’s system common, which says nothing of monetary efficiency with out different info. Since then, it has clearly been decrease, primarily across the 60-70% mark. It’s going to progressively return to regular, so seeing what ‘regular’ means is significant.”

3 Delta Air Strains

Delta is the one service from the US on this checklist

Delta Air Strains and Kenya Airways have virtually an identical numbers of continuous operations from JFK to Africa. Regardless of not having a pronounced distinction within the variety of seats provided both, the ASMs of Delta Air Strains are roughly 60,000,000 decrease.

Delta affords continuous flights from JFK to Accra (ACC)- Ghana’s capital and largest metropolis. Delta is the one service providing a continuous flight between the 2 cities. Delta operates the Boeing 767-300 (winglets) on its each day flights on this route, which spans 5,137 miles. The opposite carriers which give you a flight from JFK – ACC embody:

2 Kenya Airways

Kenya’s flag service has the best ASMs of any airline working a direct flight from JFK to Africa

Kenya Airways (KQ), Kenya’s flag service, affords 21,060 seats on the 90 flights it is going to function between Africa and JFK in August 2024.

Regardless of 34 fewer operations than the airline with essentially the most flights on this checklist, KQ affords extra ASMs than another airline working continuous flights from JFK to Africa.

KQ affords direct flights from JFK to Nairobi (NBO) on its Boeing 787-8s. The plane takes 15 hours to finish this practically 12,000-kilometer journey.

On some days of the week, KQ operates two flights per day from JFK to NBO, whereas on others, just one flight is obtainable. The identical is true for operations from NBO to JFK.

Loads of different carriers supply a one-stop flight from JFK. These embody:

• Air France through Paris
• Turkish Airways through Istanbul
• British Airways through London

The flights from JFK to Nairobi, with a one-stop route, are at the very least 5 hours longer than the continuous ones.

1 Royal Air Maroc (AT)

The flag service of Morocco is the airline with the utmost continuous flights between JFK and Africa

Royal Air Maroc is the nationwide flag service of the Kingdom of Morocco. With 124 operations, this service may have essentially the most continuous flights between Africa and JFK for August 2024. The ASMs accessible for ATs for this month aren’t the best on the checklist, although. That is even supposing the near 36,000 seats accessible on AT’s flights is sort of 15,000 seats greater than the airline providing the second-highest variety of seats.

AT affords twice-daily flights from the JFK to Casablanca (CMN) route. This airline, which has a various fleet that features turboprops, operates its Boeing 787s on this practically 3600-mile journey. Different airways that provide one-stop flights from JFK to CMN embody:

• TAP Air Portugal, which makes use of its Airbus A330neo, Airbus A319, Embraer 195 and Legacy 1000. The cease is obtainable in LIsbon.
• Iberia, which affords a cease in Madrid, makes use of the Airbus A330, Airbus A350, amongst others.