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Airlink to resume Polokwane Flights
Airlink, the independent regional airline, will resume scheduled air services to and from Polokwane from the 18th October 2021. Services were disrupted earlier this year to enable the Polokwane...
Brazil clears travelers from the UK, South Africa and India to enter the country
Brazil has lifted a restriction that blocked people coming from the United Kingdom, South Africa and India from entering the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a decision published...
South Africa is finally removed from the UK’s red list
South Africa will finally be removed from the United Kingdom's restrictive red list which has prohibited travel between the two countries since May. The delisting will come into effect on Monday 11...
Thailand declares ‘sandbox’ open to SAs
Thailand is to allow vaccinated travellers from South Africa into its ‘sandbox scheme’. The scheme was first announced in July. It’s an innovative idea in which vaccinated foreign visitors may...
It’s official – SA now has a digital vax card
The Department of Health brought its COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate System online today (October 5). The URL is https://vaccine.certificate.health.gov.za/ The system, which features a scannable QR...
Etihad returns to South Africa – after being gone for a year
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways will return to South Africa in late-November, a year after it closed its Johannesburg offices and announced the suspension of flights between the two countries. Travel...
SA vax passports imminent
If all goes according to its plan, the Department of Health will have digital vaccine passports in hand and available to vaccinated South Africans by October 5. This was the view of Mia Malan,...
SA cruises are coming back!
MSC Cruises has just released the news that of the announcement by President Ramaphosa that the country has moved to lockdown level 1. The new measures will allow cruise ships to operate in line...
SAA changes int’l schedule
SAA has already made sweeping changes to its brand-new international schedule. These changes are a mix of delaying one route’s’ re-start for some months, putting one route on hold until November and...