St Helena Island to get an airport and come out of isolation

St Helena Island is known in history as the island where French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte spent his last days and, with no air connectivity, visitors had to reach the tiny island situated in the middle of the South Atlantic by the RMS St. Helena. This ship leaves Cape Town on a five and half day trip, every three weeks from Cape Town.
However, all that is going to change and the first ever airport is slated to open up in 2016. The population of the island is 4500 and, till now, it has had only 1500 visitors on an average every year.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 24 August 2015.

Comair, a South African airline and British Airways franchisee, has already been selected to operate a weekly flight between the island and Johannesburg. Apart from these, Atlantic Star Airlines, a start-up founded by former British Airways pilots, is getting ready for its project to link St. Helena to the UK by air.
It would be a 4.5-hour passenger flights weekly and these are scheduled to begin from Johannesburg in February 2016. It is expected that nearly 30, 000 tourists will be visiting the island every year once flights to St Helena begin.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)


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