The Mother City is on a drive to ramp up its tourist economy by attracting more airlines to Cape Town International Airport.
South African airline FlySafair has been granted approval to operate flights between Johannesburg and the island of Mauritius.
Though growing numbers of international airlines are giving South Africa a wide berth, there are still numerous flights operating here.
A growing list of countries are limiting travel to and from South Africa since the more transmissible variant of the virus, dubbed 501Y.V2, was announced in December.
After an eventful year, crew members of Austrian Airlines decided to share a welcome message in the form of the ‘Jerusalema’ dance challenge.
Australia’s national carrier is set to resume operations on key routes from mid-2021, signalling reopening of the country’s borders.
Double-check those departure times, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula warns.
Border closures, travel bans and airlines requiring PCR test certificates from passengers are making travelling outside South Africa ever more challenging and costly.
Discovery of the new strain of coronavirus has resulted in additional border closures and flight bans.
The DA filed a motion in 2019 to see airline workers be made ‘essential workers’ so as to limit their rights to down tools and strike.
New airline Lift has taken to the skies for its inaugural flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg on Thursday.
Implementation of another month-long lockdown in the UK has forced several airlines to cancel flights to South Africa.
Airlines operating flights to South Africa are reporting extremely low passenger numbers.
Delta Airlines has once again delayed the relaunch of its flights between South Africa and the US, with the awaited addition of Cape Town as a stopover now also postponed until January.
Despite a modest opening up of air travel, the global airline industry is still losing R214-billion a month, warns industry body.