Airlink (South Africa) (4Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will launch scheduled flights between Johannesburg Lanseria and Harare International on November 15, 2026, marking its first service from the privately owned airport and establishing Lanseria's first international scheduled link.

Flights will operate three times weekly in each direction with 98-seater E190, supplementing Airlink's existing high-frequency service between Johannesburg O.R. Tambo and Harare.

The move breaks FlySafair's current monopoly at Lanseria, from where the low-cost carrier weekly offers 16,065 airline seats or 85 frequencies to Cape Town International, Durban King Shaka, George, and Port Elizabeth, according to ch-aviation data.

Airlink said Lanseria offers a point-to-point alternative for its passengers in western Gauteng and South Africa's North West province.

"Johannesburg-Harare is one of the busiest routes in Southern Africa and saw demand averaging around 60,000 seats a month in 2025," Airlink CEO de Villiers Engelbrecht said in a statement. "A significant percentage of this market comprises people within Lanseria's catchment area, and Airlink is able to better serve these customers by augmenting our existing services, which operate out of O.R. Tambo, with the new Lanseria flights."

Airlink currently operates up to six times daily between O.R. Tambo International and Harare with E190s and E195s.