Two days before his eighty first birthday, Loftus “Lofty” <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
Dundas died on Friday afternoon at the Olivedale Clinic, Randburg, after complications arising from a heart operation.

Born in
County Donegal, Ireland, Lofty started in travel 61 years ago when he joined British European Airways in 1948. Ten years later he emigrated to what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia and joined Central African Airways which later became Air
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He moved to Kwazulu Natal where he represented the airline as regional manager before moving up to Johannesbug.

Lofty had one of the longest active associations with Skal going back to the mid seventies when he was president of Johannesburg Skal. Tributes came through to Tourism Update over the weekend from colleages who remembered him fondly. He leaves his wife Jean.

A Memorial service will be held at

Christ Church, cnr Gordon and

, Blairgowrie on Wed 22nd July at 11h00.