{"id":34437,"date":"2021-02-08T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:38:07","slug":"breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: RwandAir Suspends Flights To Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>RwandAir has suspended flights to Zimbabwe with effect from today (Monday, 8 February 2021) due to fears of COVID-19 variants. In a statement, the airline said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In view of the global concerns on covid variants prevalent throughout southern Africa, RwandAir announces the suspension of its flights to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Lusaka and Harare, effective 8 February 2021. Scheduled flights will resume as soon as there is more clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n<p>Affected customers can rebook and fly at a later date at no additional cost \u2013 or request a refund.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please visit www.rwandair.com for the latest updates and information.<\/p>\n<p>The airline had, on 2 December 2020, reintroduced its flights and services operating between Harare and Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. RwandAir has suspended flights to Zimbabwe with effect from today (Monday, 8 February 2021) due to fears of COVID-19 variants. In a statement, the airline said: In view of the global concerns on covid variants prevalent throughout southern Africa, RwandAir announces the suspension of its flights to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Lusaka and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2997,19],"class_list":["post-34437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-rwandair","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: RwandAir Suspends Flights To Zimbabwe - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RwandAir has suspended flights to Zimbabwe with effect from today (Monday, 8 February 2021) due to fears of COVID-19 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: RwandAir Suspends Flights To Zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RwandAir has suspended flights to Zimbabwe with effect from today (Monday, 8 February 2021) due to fears of COVID-19 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-08T13:51:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-6021308e52722.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING: RwandAir Suspends Flights To Zimbabwe\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-08T13:51:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\"},\"wordCount\":131,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-6021308e52722.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Rwandair\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/breaking-rwandair-suspends-flights-to-zimbabwe\",\"name\":\"BREAKING: RwandAir Suspends Flights To Zimbabwe - 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