Kulula, the low-cost brand of South Africa's Comair, will resume flights from Johannesburg to East London on 4 September.
The route will be operated twice weekly, the airline says. “The timing could not have been more perfect, as we celebrate tourism month in September,” Kulula’s executive head of sales and marketing Brian Kitchin states.

Australia's Regional Express will extend temporary schedule reductions until 10 October, due to lockdowns and border closures in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. A stand-down of about 500 frontline workers will likewise be extended, the operator said today in a disclosure to the Australian Securities Exchange. The Victorian state government is expected to announce further details on lockdown and restrictions today, Rex said. It also cites further extensions to lockdowns for Greater Sydney until the end of September and Regional New South Wales until 10 September. "Given this uncertainty, we are left with no option but to extend the suspension of our domestic services and reduction of our regional services until 10 October 2021 to provide some time for the advanced sale of tickets." Furloughs will also continue until at least 10 October, as "current conditions now deem it necessary". Rex disclosed in August that staff would be stood down from 16 August until 12 September. In today's statement, the company says it remains optimistic that travel demand will be strong post-lockdowns and border closures. "We are committed to ensuring Rex remains agile and ready to respond when flying resumes." The operator released its preliminary results for the financial year (FY) ended 30 June 2021 on 31 August. The report shows that core revenues – from passenger, freight, charter, and other operations, excluding government grants and subsidies – declined by 35% year-on-year to A$169 million ($124 million), though underlying operating loss before tax narrowed to A$18.4 million from a A$27.4 million loss in FY 2020. Rex's executive chairman Lim Kim Hai said in a 31 August statement: "The first half of the FY22 will continue to be dominated by rolling lockdowns and border closures. "It is possible that the second half will be struck by further waves of infection given the experience of other highly vaccinated countries. As such the outlook for the year is highly uncertain."

The Council of the European Union has removed the USA from its list of countries for which restrictions on non-essential travel should be lifted, 10 weeks after adding the country to the list. The EU also on 30 August removed Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro and the Republic of North Macedonia from the list of countries for which it recommends that member states should gradually lift travel restrictions at their external borders. World Health Organization data shows that the rate of new cases of Covid-19 in the USA, after a six-month decline, began increasing in late June, driven largely by the delta variant working in tandem with a stagnating vaccination rate. The infection rate per million population in the country has risen from 38 on 30 June to 475 on 28 August, the highest it has been since late January. The percent difference in US carriers' flights to Europe compared with pre-pandemic 2019 levels has been narrowing since late May, improving from down 73% on 27 May to down 55% on 28 August,