- Qatar Airways will start flying passengers out of South Africa on 13 January, after suspending outbound services in the wake of Omicron’s discovery.
- Qatar will operate 21 weekly flights, servicing Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.
- The Doha-based airline had initially hoped to resume these flights on 12 December.
- But countries in the Middle East have been slow to ease restrictions on South African travellers.
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Qatar Airways will begin flying passengers out of South Africa on 13 January after suspending outbound operations following the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant in late November.
International airlines are resuming services to and from South Africa after swiftly grounding flights in line with government-ordered travel bans. These restrictions followed a briefing by South Africa’s Network for Genomic Surveillance in late November which first identified the…