The first domestic commercial flight from OR Tambo International Airport under level 3 of the lockdown took off on Friday, after 10 weeks of no commercial flights.

A total of 57 business travellers began checking in at the airport from 4am for the flight on a CemAir Dash 8-Q400 that departed at 6.30am for Cape Town. The load factor on that flight was 73%...

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