South African Airways Returns Four Airbus A330s To Lessors

Yesterday a post on LinkedIn indicated that four South African Airways A330s were leaving the fleet and returning to the lessor for storage. The four widebodies departed Johannesburg for São Paulo International Airport on May 16th around late-morning and midday (local time). The carrier is in the midst of a significant restructuring process that will see it emerge as a new airline under government ownership.

According to Airfleets, two Airbus A330s are listed as belonging to a company by the name of Aircastle while the other two are listed as leases from AAL. It’s unclear if AAL simple stands for “Aircastle Aircraft Leasing,” (while AAL is the stock symbol for American Airlines, it’s unlikely the US carrier has anything to do with this).