Following the termination of all industrial action by Fair Work Australia, Qantas will resume scheduled services from mid-afternoon on Monday 31 October - please phone in to check if your flight will leave on time. This is subject to approval from the regulator.

Happy birthday Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic have just reached their 15th birthday of flying from South Africa to London, and what a pleasure it is to get to your destination without a stop. There's a Johannesburg - London fare I spotted for R6717 (check dates between 22 Dec and 29 Dec). Here's what their lowest return flight prices look like (prices will change, perhaps even by the time you read this):

Accommodation in London

Try Palmers Lodge Hillspring At Willesden Green from R135 a night, or Millenium Bailey's Hotel from R1551 per night.

JNB - Athens R5065*

JNB - Cape Town R1058*

JNB - Delhi R5010*

JNB - Durban R686*

JNB - Dubai R5212*

JNB - Dublin R5949*

JNB - Hong Kong R6743*

JNB - Istanbul R5148*

JNB - Kuala Lumpur R5189*

JNB - London R5778*

JNB - Madrid R5575*

JNB - New York R7965*

JNB - Shanghai R7609*

JNB - Sydney R9996*

JNB - Venice R5994*

* lowest return flight prices, limited availability, prices may have changed

CPT - London R5433 *
(some days in November)

In other strike news Air France cancelled 20% of its flights.

Well done to Mpho Haugen on most closely predicting the Lions victory margin over the Sharks on our Facebook page, and winning a small travel voucher.

Congratulations to Thulani Nzima on being named the SA Tourism's new Chief Executive. Thulani was previously Avis's director of sales and marketing, and before that worked at South African Airways & was head of the South African Travel Centre.

Eish, the share price for Comair (who run Kulula and British Airways South Africa) hit a low for the year last week.

Selemeng Mokose has resigned as a director of 1time, and from 1 November Ken Jarvis starts as non-executive director and Lorna Terblanche becomes group financial director of 1time airline.

A 25-year-old lady of South African heritage faces up to 10 years in the slammer for groping a male air steward's privates and insisting on sex, after consuming half a litre of whisky on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Johannesburg to London Heathrow, in an Airbus A340-600.

Tomorrow is the beginning of Movember, time to start growing those moustaches for 30 days. Even better make a donation - goes towards  funding "key programmes that are making a real difference to the lives of men and their families affected by prostate and testicular cancer".