Eurowings' Cologne/Bonn-Cape Town launch signals developments in Europe-Africa connectivity

At the start of the winter 2017/2018 season Eurowings launched a new weekly A330 service from Cologne/Bonn to Cape Town. This is now only the second route from Cologne/Bonn to mainland sub-Saharan Africa, following Eurowings' launch of a service to Windhoek in Namibia in Jul-2017.

North Africa accounts for approximately two thirds of all airline seats between Europe and Africa. The Cologne/Bonn launches illustrate how new airline business models may be starting to shift the balance towards sub-Saharan Africa and, outside the narrowbody dominated leisure markets of North Africa, helping to open routes between secondary airports.

This winter's addition of two destinations in Southern Africa to the network operated out of Cologne/Bonn is a sign of how new airline models are helping to change the Europe-Africa markets. New generation aircraft technology should accelerate these processes even further, to the benefit of airport connectivity.