RwandAir had suspended flights to Cape Town, Johannesburg in South Africa, Harare in Zimbabwe and Lusaka in Zambia in November 2021 after detecting the new COVID-19 variant dubbed Omicron.
As he officially opened the 33rd Plenary session of the African Civil Aviation Commission in Kigali, President Paul Kagame revealed that Rwanda had to take immediate action after learning about the new variant.
“At least, we had to figure out what to do in response to that. That was already happening because of what actions, other people were taking,” he noted.
At the time, Kagame said that there could be huge losses, if RwandAir just went to southern Africa because it would be not bringing passengers given that they normally come through Rwanda to other destinations.
Today, the United Kingdom is among other countries that have permitted flights from South Africa.
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