{"id":43072,"date":"2026-01-16T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/atns-sets-the-record-straight-on-hoedspruit-flight-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:40:22","slug":"atns-sets-the-record-straight-on-hoedspruit-flight-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/atns-sets-the-record-straight-on-hoedspruit-flight-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"ATNS sets the record straight on Hoedspruit flight operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC Limited wishes to clarify reports suggesting that the resumption of flight operations to Hoedspruit Airport is dependent on &ldquo;a declaration by government or ATNS.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>ATNS does not provide air traffic services at the said airport or has the mandate or responsibility to suspend flight operations into Hoedspruit Air Force Base or Eastgate Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cancel, delay, divert, or resume flight operations in and out of Eastgate Airport does not rest with ATNS.  <\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, ATNS cannot be expected to &ldquo;declare&rdquo; when flight operations at this airport will resume&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76144&#038;page=atns-sets-the-record-straight-on-hoedspruit-flight-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC Limited wishes to clarify reports suggesting that the resumption of flight operations to Hoedspruit Airport is dependent on &ldquo;a declaration by government or ATNS.&rdquo; ATNS does not provide air traffic services at the said airport or has the mandate or responsibility to suspend flight operations into Hoedspruit Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/hoedspruit-airport.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/hoedspruit-airport.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}