South African Airways (SAA), the beleaguered government-owned airline, has cut all its domestic routes, bar one, and significantly reduced its regional and international routes.
The only domestic route the airline is retaining is the Johannesburg-Cape Town run, which is the 25th busiest in the world, by passenger volume.
It has retained its international flights to New York, Perth, Frankfurt, and Washington. Its regional routes that it has kept are flights to Blantyre, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Maputo, Mauritius, Nairobi, Victoria Falls and Windhoek.
The routes that Its low-cost subsidiary, Mango, runs, remain unaffected.
SAA has been in business rescue since November last year, after years of corruption and mismanagement at the airline, one of the oldest in the world.
Nearly 1 000 people are expected to lose their jobs as the airline continues its restructuring.