What might a rescued SAA look like?
As National Treasury continues to scrounge around for the R2 billion in funding desperately required by ailing South African Airways (SAA), the state-owned airline offered some indication this week of what it may well look like should it emerge from the business rescue process intact.
Chaos followed an advisory issued by Flight Centre – and not by SAA itself – on Tuesday morning claiming that as many as 19 flights had been cut. The actual number, according to an official statement issued by SAA after 11 am, was 28 domestic flights and 10 international ones. All affected flights are scheduled for this week (including some scheduled for yesterday).
Eight flights (four return) between Johannesburg and Cape Town have been “consolidated” as the airline is currently “operating training flights for pilots on the new state-of-the-art Airbus 350-900 aircraft on this route, before transferring the new planes to international routes”.
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