Miles Van News Today

It’s the airport that just won’t take off. But now a new plan to turn Plettenberg Bay into a regional aviation hub has got some heavyweight businessmen circling the crumbling runway of the Garden Route town.

Efforts by the Eastern Cape department of transport to rope in more airlines to service the revamped Mthatha Airport are gathering pace after it was announced this week that CemAir had shown interest in servicing the route between Mthatha and Johannesburg. At present only SA Airlink operates from the airport, with flights between Mthatha and Johannesburg.