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SAA washes its hands of Mango
Mango Airlines’ business rescue practitioner, Sipho Sono, has proposed that the airline’s operations should be resumed as soon as possible, ideally by December, to take advantage of demand in the...
Airlink will trial Travel Pass
In a great leap forward for aviation and health in the region, Airlink is to become the first carrier in Southern Africa to trial the Iata Travel Pass, a secure digital smartphone app that allows...
A380 will return to JNB – EK
EMIRATES is at work, getting its passenger operations from South Africa back on track, planning the reintroduction of a daily Airbus A380 service on its Johannesburg route. While clearly optimistic,...
LH Group piles on summer capacity to SA
WITH the changeover from its summer to winter schedule, from November 1, the Lufthansa Group will boost capacity between South Africa and Germany and Switzerland. Exciting news for Cape Town’s...
EK brings on more seats to Oz
Emirates is to enhance its operations to Australia to meet pent-up demand for travel into and out of the country. Vaccination rates in New South Wales have reached their target and Victoria is not...
Airlink feeds domestic pax
Passengers on domestic flights operated by Airlink will once again be offered meals and drinks from October 27. This is due to the recently gazetted changes to the Disaster Management Act that allow...
MRU capacity stacks up for season
A flood of extra airline capacity is being added to Mauritius before the end of the year. These extra seats and a general improvement in consumer confidence should help to drive business over...
Bonjour Cape Town!
Cape Town will shortly return to Air France’s winter schedule, with three flights a week, starting October 31. Cape Town is just one of the airline’s stations where flights have been, or will be...
SA airlines may give you drinks and food again – but you can’t share your in-flight magazine
South Africa’s domestic airlines have been given permission to provide pre-packaged catering, including food and drinks, to passengers. This was previously prohibited under stricter levels of...