SA Airways has a new strategic partner that will own 51% of the airline. Public enterprise minister Pravin Gordhan on Friday announced that the government has reached an agreement with a private company‚ Takatso Consortium‚ that will own…
The state capture inquiry on Tuesday heard how controversial former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni knew intimate details about the inner workings of Eskom, and suggested solutions to fix the power utility despite not being in its employ. This…
An athlete who represented SA in the 2012 London Olympics and more than 40 other South Africans found themselves stranded in Germany after a SAA repatriation flight left for SA without them. Though tickets had been paid for and after a…
An agreement has been reached between the government and SAA’s business rescue practitioners to hold off on the signing of retrenchment agreements at the embattled airline until Friday. An undated letter to organised labour signed by…
Airline is consolidating to save money SAA has confirmed that selected domestic and international flights have been cancelled and that it is “consolidating” to save money. Airports affected are OR Tambo in Johannesburg, Cape Town and…
Government is looking for R2bn to contribute to SA Airways (SAA), as part of its commitment to the airline’s business rescue process. Meanwhile, the department of public enterprises said in a statement on Sunday evening that it was…
Business rescue practitioner claims canning of operations discussed, but government fighting to keep the national airline flying Government has given undertakings to return to SAA’s business rescue practitioners within a week on a way…
SA Airways (SAA) has cancelled nearly all its domestic, regional and international flights scheduled for Friday and Saturday as the embattled airline faces the “mother of all strikes” by unions. The airline said this was to minimise the…
More than 10 domestic flights were affected after the SA Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) grounded some SA Airways (SAA) and Comair planes on Tuesday. SAA said there were four flight cancellations so they took steps to combine flights and…
Two SAA flight attendants have appeared in court after allegedly being caught smuggling millions of rands worth of cocaine into Hong Kong. “We confirm that two of our employees have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of being in…
By Linda Ensor South African Airways (SAA) plans to significantly reduce its flights by 23% from the end of the year‚ 37% of which would be on domestic routes‚ 11% regional and 4% on international. The initiative is part of a programme to…
OR Tambo International Airport is set to be hit by a strike on Friday‚ but management cannot say how bad the effects will be. Staff at South African Airways (SAA) are embarking on their second labour stoppage in the past few months, in…
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba takes flak from economists for capitulating too easily to SAA’s demands for a R2.3bn bail-out Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba took flak from economists on Sunday for capitulating too easily to the demands of…
Passengers expecting to use South African Airways flights on Wednesday have been angered by the cancellation of several flights from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Cabin crew members have been picketing outside the…
