The Airports Company of South Africa is preparing for the resumption of domestic air travel under lockdown alert level 3 and will have the country’s three major airports ready for flights on June 1. TheMercurySA day54oflockdown
Durban - The Airports Company of South Africa is preparing for the resumption of domestic air travel under lockdown alert level 3 and will have the country’s three major airports ready for flights on June 1.
“We are currently on level 4 where basically only cargo and repatriation flights are permitted and all other flights are restricted. We are working only on essential services at airports and remote working for non-essential services,” Mpofu said. “We have prepared and finalised the plans in consultation with the Department of Transport, and some of what we have presented we are still in consultation on.
Sanitisation of terminals and baggage would be implemented and the wearing of masks and gloves would be mandatory for staff. Mpofu said it was important that an announcement be made early regarding the opening up of domestic travel, to give airlines time to accrue sufficient bookings to be ready to fly on June 1.
In March, ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Acsa to Ba1 from Baa3 with a negative outlook, as expected passenger traffic was seen falling by at least 30% in the financial year to March 2021.
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