To all those that has helped during the Covid-19 pandemic, Tertius Myburgh is seen as a guardian angel. But while he is flattered, the South African commercial pilot is having none of it.
It began when he was contacted by his former high school principal, Klaus König, now the principal of Helpmekaar High School in Joburg. König, his sister and his friend were all stuck in Myanmar and needed to get home immediately.
“There is nobody else to help these people. It’s just me, alone and my phone. My phone has very limited talk time as I am still very new in Canada. The biggest credit I could get on my phone has been $300 .” Arranging such a flight is fraught with complications, particularly during a global pandemic. “Before Covid, you could just contact their civil aviation authority, send the details of your flight and within a day or two, you have authorisation and off you go. I had to navigate plenty of challenges.”
“That allowed us to keep the cost down, where we were in control of who was our fuel supplier at each stop, and who organised the catering, so we can pass that saving on to the actual guy that needs to get back.”
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