30 June 2020

South Africa: Airlink expands its domestic flight network for business and essential travel! [update]

update (22 July 2020):  Effective 27 July 2020, Airlinks' early morning flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town as well as between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth will be departing a little later to enhance customer convenience.
Johannesburg 07:10 > 09:20 Cape Town (Mondays to Sundays)Cape Town  07:20 > 09:25 Johannesburg (Mondays to Sundays)Johannesburg 10:15 > 12:35 Cape Town (Saturdays)Johannesburg 07:10 > 08:55 Port Elizabeth (Mondays to Fridays)Port Elizabeth 09:35 > 11:15 Johannesburg (Mondays to Fridays)

Following the announcement by South Africa's Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, that seven more airports in South Africa resume operations from 01 July 2020, South African regional carrier Airlink is set to introduce flights between OR Tambo Internaitonal Airport (JNB) in Johannesburg and Bram Fischer International Airport (BFN) in Bloemfontein, Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP) in Nelspruit, Upington Airport (UTN) in Upington and Pietermaritzburg Airport (PZB) in Pietermaritzburg as well as Cape Town International Airport (CPT) in Cape Town to Bloemfontein and Cape Town to Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ) in Port Elizabeth. All services will commence on 06 July 2020. In the next few weeks the airline is expecting additional airports to be approved and added to their operations, these include Kimberley, Mthatha, Polokwane, Richards Bay as well as Cape Town to George.
Domestic passenger air travel in
South Africa is currently not permitted for recreational, leisure or tourism purposes. All international passenger flights are prohibited except for those flights authorised by the Minister of Transport for the repatriation of South African Nationals from foreign countries and evacuation of foreign nationals from South Africa.

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