Many flights from the SA Airways and its subsidiaries such as Comair have canceled flights because an audit report showed that aircraft were forbidden to take off. The SA Aerospace Technical Division released the audit, which shows that there are Read More …
SA Airline shocks the country after flight incident – faulty, secondhand component of Mango Boeing turns passengers’ flight into nightmare
An investigation into a flight incident which occurred on a Mango Boeing 737 aircraft has unearthed the extent of South African Airways’ problems, according to a report in the Sunday Times. Passengers on a recent Mango flight from Johannesburg to Read More …
Air travellers in SA – Bring your own food, union says, as strike threatens airport catering services
Air travellers in South Africa have been warned to pack lunch boxes as there will be no food or catering services on several airlines as workers are expected to embark on a strike on Monday. This as the National Union Read More …
SAA pilots willing to strike to ‘save’ national airline – will be a first in its 80-year existence
SAA pilots said on Thursday they were willing to go on strike, if necessary, unless “critical operational and technical deficiencies” were addressed. The Pilots Association has begun the process of recruiting among its members to determine how they think about Read More …
SAA flight out of hell! –Flight from OR Thambo International Airport to Washington DC – ‘We saw our lives flash before our eyes’
What was meant to be one of Sharmla Chetty’s regular business trips to the US turned into a hair-raising experience for her on Sunday night. ‘We saw our lives flash before our eyes’- passenger on SAA flight forced to make Read More …
#ParasiticParastatal – SA Express is just another bottomless pit swallowing taxpayers’ money
It is disturbing to realise that recently another enormous lifeline was quietly given to SA Express while all the attention was on Eskom, the SAA and the SABC. According to the Free Market Foundation, SA Express received a lifeline of R1,24 billion from the government in November last year and was now given government guaranteed financing amounting to R300 million.
It seems that the Free Market Foundation forced SA Express by means of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to disclose its financial statements and managerial account data.
SA Express has become a large hole draining tax money from the fiscus dam and if it continues in this way, it will drain everything until there is nothing left. The ANC will have to realise at some point that the country does not have an inexhaustible source of money and that public enterprises cannot be saved from financial ruin indefinitely.
Like with e-toll, taxpayers will get to a point where they will n
Appointment of white CEO at Mango kicks up a storm – Black management Forum objects since he is white and because of skin colour not qualified for the position
The appointment of Nico Bezuidenhout as Chief Executive Officer of Mango triggered hysteria at the Black Management Forum (BMF). The BMF will do everything in its power to fight the appointment. Their objection is that he is a white man Read More …
State capture, another horrific finding!: SAA loses out on 2-million litres of fuel a month as BEE music promoter fails to deliver
A little-known company that was awarded a multimillion-rand contract to supply fuel to SAA hasn’t delivered since October last year. This means that the airline has been short of 2-million litres of fuel a month – although this amount is Read More …
How much taxpayers money has been thrown into SAA’s black hole to stay afloat?
Billions and billions have been thrown at The South African Airways (SAA), but the airline don’t have much to show for it. It’s hard to recall a time when the limpest of all our state-owned entities was successful on its Read More …
SA taxpayers to fund yet another government bailout – Cash-strapped SAA requests R4bn to survive current financial year after years of mismanagement and corruption
South African Airways (SAA) appointed its head of operations as acting chief executive on Friday and said it needs R4-billion from the government to survive the current financial year and allow it to renegotiate loan terms with banks. Zukisa Ramasia Read More …