We just CNX'd our flts and trip to Bots. Here is the deal on J'berg and Delta.
J'berg IS open and taking international flights and international travelers. HOWEVER, you MUST stay in the International transit/transfer side of the terminal and be connecting with other International flts OUT of RSA. IF you go into the Immigration and baggage claim area to collect bags you then become subject to the 14-day quarantine IN RSA.
How this ties in with Delta? Delta doesn't code share or have baggage handling/transfer agreements with any of the other carriers with flight going to Tanzania or Zambia etc, and their flight arrives so late in the day, you are pretty much forced to spend the night in J'berg.
In our case, our tickets to Botswana were with Qatar Air, who DOES have code share and baggage handling/transfer agreements with Air Botswana and some others. Since the Bots govt just announced that Gaborone was going back into complete lockdown starting 1 Aug to at LEAST 14 Aug Qatar Air agreed to give us a total refund on our tickets.
