Common Sense and Whiskey is all about unusual international travel, and yesterday Delta Airlines announced new service from the U.S. to several African locations not exactly in the middle of the tourist map. That's the good news. The not so good news: It'll probably cost a fortune.
With yesterday's announcement, by next summer Delta plans to offer service from the U.S. to Nairobi, Dakar, Monrovia, Abuja, Lagos, Malabo, Luanda, Cairo, Cape Town and the first U.S. carrier's daily flights to Johannesburg. Nairobi and Cape Town will fly via Dakar, Monrovia, Abuja, Malabo, & Luanda via Sal, Cape Verde.
The music of Cesaria Evora aside, and with apologies to Cape Verdians, you'd be hard pressed to find much going on from the sand swept tarmac at Sel, at least based on our one refueling there, in the middle of the night between South Africa and the U.S.
Luanda? Malabo? Angola!? Equatorial Guinea!?
Oil. Equatorial Guinea (which doesn't lie on the equator) is the third largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Angola was admitted to OPEC in December 2006.
We have a post coming soon on nascent Angolan tourism.
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