WATCH: Terry Munro: ‘Mauritius will recover fast’

Holidaymakers across South Africa have been eagerly awaiting Mauritius’s reopening to vaccinated South Africans, which took place last Friday, October 1. Beachcomber Tours MD, Terry Munro, talks about coping with the storm of demand in new bookings, along with fulfilling pre-existing bookings, and doing all this with very limited airline capacity – a fraction of the 25 flights a week we had in 2019. If current bookings are anything to go by, Beachcomber Tours expects it will carry a similar number of passengers to the island in 2022 to what it carried in 2019, before COVID-19. The interview was recorded before FlySafair announced its twice-weekly Mauritius service, starting December 11. But even with the FlySafair flights, airlift from SA to MRU is still only a fraction of that pre-COVID.