Giant Australian airline Qantas has revised its international restart date amid optimism surrounding Covid-19 vaccines. Flights to and from South Africa, which were initially halted until October 2021, are now due to resume in July. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says all international travellers aboard Qantas aircrafts will likely need to beRead More →
Starting with 9 aircraft and just 27 routes, will the new SAA be successful? In the 2019-2020 year, every airline globally suffered devastating impact from COVID-19. The damage to SAA was even more severe than that suffered by others. It had already been driven into business rescue by years ofRead More →
Countries and airlines have banned flights from South Africa, due to the new variant of the Coronavirus in South Africa which may be responsible for the recent surge in infections. Sudan has banned travellers from South Africa, Britain and the Netherlands from 23 December 2020. The ban will last 3Read More →
This past week the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE) claimed that SAA pilots are, “the second-best paid in the world.” This is an astoundingly crude lie that is evidently false for two reasons… First – it cited its source as IATA – the International Air Transport Association. IATA was quickRead More →
Air Botswana plans to resume flights to Zambia on 17 December 2020. The airline will operate a triangular route that will link Gaborone to Lusaka with a return to Gaborone via Harare. Following Botswana’s opened it’s borders on November 9, 2020 for regional flights, and immediately resumed flights to Johannesburg’sRead More →
Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni has told deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo that if she were white and had the name “Madame Venter” she would not be “presumed guilty in order for me to prove my innocence”. “I am here as an innocent person,” she said. “Chair, if IRead More →
The recent debate from the South African Broadcasting Company, (SABC), is to charge users of tablets, i-phones and cell phones a licence fee when they watch video broadcasts.Read More →
Whether you know the Russian Tupolev Tu-160 as the Blackjack, or the White Swan is up to you. Brief History The Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan or the NATO name ‘Blackjack’is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. It is the largestRead More →
Just to prove that pilots do have a sense of humour. AIRSPEED – Speed of an airplane. (Deduct 25% when listening to a retired or an inebriated pilot.) BANK – The people who hold the loan on most pilots’ cars, homes and aircraft. CARBURETOR ICING – A phenomenon reported toRead More →
