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ASKY brings in a new B737-800
Air Madagascar will suspend its line Antananarivo - Johannesburg
SAA in business rescue
The Board of SAA (South African Airways), supported by the governement of South Africa has decided to place the SAA into business rescue. A press statement says, this would be "the optimal mechanism to restore confidence in SAA and to safeguard the good assets of SAA and help to restructure and reposition the entity into one that is stronger,… read more
Flight Centre stops selling SAA
Flight Centre Travel Group, the international travel agency, has stopped selling tickets in SAA South African Airways as per media report on businesslive.co.za. Reason for this was that a travel insurance company said, it would no longer cover SAA tickets against insolvency.
SAA's Hong Kong flights suspended
Kids travel to South Africa has been eased
New government – new approach: The South African government has eased access for children travelling to South Africa or having a transfer at one of the South African Airports.
Effective November 2019, foreign children no longer require supporting documents to be presented upon arrivals. However, South African children holding S… read more
SAA skips Guangzhou before the start
South African Airways has recently closed boking for one of the new destinations, Guangzhou.
Originally, the ailine had planned to commence this Service on 12th of January, 2020. Published as 3 weekly A340-300 service, reservation for travel on/after this date, including Northern summer season from 29MAR20, is no longer available.
Air Zimbabwe cannot fly to South Africa anymore
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has confirmed it will not service planes of Air Zimbabwe any longer at any of its nine Airports in South Africa. ACSA confirmed that this decision had to be taken due to open debts. However, the amount has not been mentioned.
ACSA says it informed Air Zimbabwe in writing that it would not be allowed to … read more
South African Airways to cut almost 20% of labour
Mauritius Metro Express inaugurated
Last month, the new Metro Express has launched its operations on Mauritius.
In 1964, all railroad facilities had been dismantled on Mauritius island; the railroad was unable to compete with growing indivual traffic. Of course this has changed over the last years and along with increasing demand of public transport and the ong… read more
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