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Cape Town-Singapore direct
Singapore Airlines’ direct non-stop flights from Cape Town to Singapore will resume on July 1. SQ482 will operate on Tuesdays and Thursdays, departing from Cape Town at 12h45 and arriving in...
UK red list blocks South Africa
This story has been updated since publication. Maldives and Turkey were added to the Red List. Although the UK’s, and specifically England’s, travel restrictions have been eased, the loosening of...
Rwandair returns to South Africa
Rwandair has announced it will restart its flights from Kigali to Johannesburg (one a week direct, and two per week via Lusaka ) from May 7, and from Kigali to Cape Town (two per week, both via...
Countries are banning travel from Covid-hit India – calls for SA to do the same are growing
Calls for South Africa to ban travel – or at the very least quarantine visitors – from India are growing among local politicians and medical experts. Several nations have recently banned travellers...
New Act will appropriate SAA funds for Mango
A new Special Appropriation Bill, tabled by the Finance Minister on Tuesday and debated in a parliamentary committee meeting this week, aims to appropriate R2,7bn from SAA’s business rescue funds...
Zanzibar – clarity on permitted tourists
A bombshell announcement from the Tanzanian government on May 3, specifying 14 days of mandatory quarantine for travellers entering from unspecified countries “with new Covid-19 variants” threw the...
Airlink resumes Lodge flights
Airlink resumes lodge flights Airlink will re-start its safari lodge air transfer service from July 1. The airline’s popular Lodge Link service will provide direct connectivity beyond Skukuza and...
BREAKING NEWS: Zanzibar – green or red light?
Tanzania yesterday (May 3) issued a new travel advisory, for fear of COVID-19 variants spreading within the country. Operators, still in upheaval over Mango’s recent suspension of the route between...
Mango – uncertainty is the only certainty
Mango’s brief announcement on Friday that it would continue to operate as normal from Saturday, May 1, has left a multitude of unanswered questions about the future of the airline and its funding....