Emirates has been working closely with South African Airways (SAA) to reactivate its long-standing partnership which aims to improve the customer experience and provide more value to travellers when flying on both carriers.
Emirates and SAA have been working towards increasing alignment across products, services and reactivation of synergies between loyalty programmes, and will be initially kicking off with a reciprocal commercial arrangement. The agreement includes SAA coded and Emirates-operated routes between South Africa and Dubai on a single ticket, enabling travellers to seamlessly check-in their bags to their final destinations from 1 October. Emirates will also place the SAA code on major trunk routes between South Africa and Dubai.
Source: Emirates