#ASCENSION ISLAND FLIGHTS FROM UK FREE#
In addition, the Incident Executive Group (IEG) has previously agreed and approved the introduction of a ‘travel corridor’ between St Helena and Ascension, whereby passengers travelling to St Helena from Ascension, and vice versa, would be free from the mandatory quarantine requirements on both islands – subject to certain conditions to which travellers must adhere.įlights to St Helena from London will continue with a maximum of 96 passengers because this aligns with the Island’s COVID-19 testing and quarantine security system capacity. The reduced quarantine period is effective immediately and will be live for the arrival of the Titan Airways Charter flight from London Stansted on Monday, 21 June. Other COVID-19 preventative measures remain in place which include testing on arrival at St Helena and a negative test result being required before the mandatory quarantine period is deemed to be complete. On 10June it was announced that the mandatory quarantine period for all arrivals to the Island would be reduced from 14 to 10 days. SHG continues to focus its efforts on planning for the future. SHG remains in close contact with the airline on these developments. Both St Helena Government (SHG) and Airlink have agreed that these restrictions continue to make it impractical for the scheduled Airlink service to resume at present. Ongoing COVID-19 measures remain in place in South Africa – these include a curfew (which was recently tightened) and restrictions on travellers entering the UK from South Africa, which is currently on the UK’s travel ‘Red List’.
Restrictions in South Africa and Planning for the Future
This means the return flight to London Stansted (via Accra) will now depart 24 hours later on Thursday, 12 August. In conjunction with Ascension Island Government (AIG) and due to increased demand, an additional return shuttle service to Ascension Island will operate on Wednesday, 11 August. Persons wanting to travel on this flight have up until Wednesday, 30 June, to express an interest to fly. The August Titan Airways Charter flight from the UK is scheduled to arrive at St Helena on Monday, 9 August 2021.
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