This is what the new regulations mean for your travel plans
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DURBAN: Following President Cyril Ramaphosa s speech last night, social media groups were abuzz, with residents asking how the adjusted level 3 lockdown rules would impact their travel schedules.
Flight Centre Travel Group Middle East and Africa managing director, Andrew Stark, has unpacked what the updated regulations mean for travellers.
Stark said the group welcomed the president s measures to flatten the curve, and assured holidaymakers that leisure travel, as well as business travel, could still take place. Whereas under the previous level 3 regulations, inter-provincial leisure travel was prohibited, this is not the case under the new and adjusted level 3 regulations. Both domestic and international leisure and business travel is permitted subject to strict health and hygiene protocols, Stark said.
King Shaka International Airport now open to public
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King Shaka International Airport terminal building has officially opened to the public as outlined by the Department of Transport regulations revised to allow for general access into the airport terminal.
King Shaka International Airport Senior Corporate Manager, Colin Naidoo said the opening of the terminal building to the public will be accompanied by the continued application of Covid-19 protocols. We encourage our airport travellers to continue ensuring compliance of the Covid-19 protocols. Masks, hand sanitisation and physical distancing will be enforced in terminal buildings, including at retail, food and car hire outlets. Temperature screening and sanitisation will take place on entering the terminal building.
COVID-19 delays new AFB Durban build
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15 Squadron Oryx on mountain rescue mission.
Another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa is the new air force base at Durban’s King Shaka International Airport – with occupancy now expected “around the end of 2025”.
“Work commenced in 2019 with environmental impact assessment as well as the landscaping (levelling of the ground). The construction timeframe is five years, however it will be moved to the right with a year due to the lost year as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. According to time schedule, the new base is anticipated to be occupied around the end of 2025 to the beginning of 2026 provided that no other external factors impede the construction progress (sic),” was how SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Director: Corporate Communication, Brigadier General Mafi Mgobozi, responded to a defenceWeb enquiry on progress for a new home for 15 Squadron and the SA Air Force’s (SAAF’s) onl