{"id":44622,"date":"2026-09-04T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44622"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:43:59","slug":"air-tanzania-to-resume-flights-to-russia-after-temporary-halt","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/air-tanzania-to-resume-flights-to-russia-after-temporary-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Tanzania to resume flights to Russia after temporary halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Tanzania said this Friday it would resume flights between \u200cDar es Salaam and Moscow on September 7, hours after announcing a temporary suspension beginning from September 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision follows a routine risk assessment of the \u2060operating environment along the route,&#8221; the airline said on Facebook, without giving details of why it was decided to resume the flights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moscow airports have been among the world&#8217;s most disrupted in recent days due to frequent closures during drone attacks, according \u200cto \u2060Flightradar24 data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned airlines and insurance companies on Tuesday that Russian airspace was becoming &#8220;completely dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that Ukraine posed no \u2060threat to civil aviation, &#8220;but there will be drones in Russia&#8217;s skies and due notice must be \u2060taken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said this amounted to &#8220;state terrorism&#8221; and would make it \u2060harder to restart peace talks with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-44622","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Air Tanzania to resume Moscow flights on September 7 following brief risk assessment suspension","published_date":"2026-09-04 12:43:52","news_description":"Air Tanzania to resume Moscow flights on September 7 following brief risk assessment suspension","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44624,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44622\/revisions\/44624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}