The British High Commission announces that, with effect from 1 July 2009, all South African passport holders wishing to visit the UK will be required to obtain a visit visa before travelling. This announcement effectively removes the visa exemption that was in place for those South African passport holders who had previously visited the UK [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Angolan Health Form
June 25th, 2009
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With the Bird Flu going around and the likes, are we going to see an increase in completing health forms on arrival at the various countries that we visit? This week saw Angola introducing a health form which is to be completed on arrival in the country. Question is if it is left to the [...]
Change your booking habits!
June 22nd, 2009
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ASATA has sent out a call to all agents to help curb GDS wastage. What does it mean? Simply put it means stop going to 5 travel agents creating 5 bookings for the same flight. The airline makes payment for each and every segment booked. So your shopping around is costing the airlines. This WILL [...]
Soccer fever
June 15th, 2009
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Well the Confed (I see it as aTravel event) cup is in full swing and I can proudly admit that I was part of the crowd at the opening at Ellis park yesterday. Wow it was fantastic, the kids paint and the smooth and which everything happened was awesome. I must admit that I am [...]
VFS and applying for a UK visa
June 4th, 2009
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Well yesterday I had the experience of going through what it takes to apply for the UK visa. Personally I travel on a British passport however my wife has a South African one. During the two and a half hours that I spent at the VFS office in Sandton city I came up with a [...]
