South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) took delivery of its first A330-300(E) on Friday, December 1, with ZS-SXI (cn 1745) ferried direct from Toulouse Blagnac to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo.

The twinjet is one of five the state-owned carrier will take delivery of from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) with two due to arrive by year-end.

As previously reported, SAA expects to deploy the type into service later this month on Johannesburg O.R. Tambo-Lagos, Nigeria flights followed by São Paulo Guarulhos, Brazil operations early next year.

SAA’s A330-300s are configured in a two-class cabin layout with forty-six seats in Business Class and 203 in Economy class.