Virgin Atlantic recently announced a second daily service between London’s Heathrow Airport and Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport.

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Virgin Atlantic’s new service will begin flying in winter 2018 with the first flight departing on October 28th. All flights will be on Boeing 787-9 airplanes, and will include all the best in in-flight entertainment and wi-fi on every flight.

The additional daily flight will depart London Heathrow at 16:45 and land into Johannesburg at 05:40 local time. The service will be the first Heathrow flight to land each morning making it perfect for business travellers or those with onward connections to the rest of Africa.

The return flight will leave Johannesburg at 22:20 landing back into Heathrow at 07:30.

The route has been timed to enable customers to easily connect onto flights with Virgin Atlantic and Delta to over 200 US destinations, including Los Angeles and San Francisco.