Pratt & Whitney Canada is celebrating the accumulation of a billion hours on its PT6A engine in the 60th year of the engine’s production. The company says more than 64,000 PT6s have been produced since 1963, accumulating more than half the hours flown by all the P&WC engines. The totalRead More →
(Photo Essay – Trevor Cohen) – On 21 February the South African combined armed forces held their annual parade at Richards Bay in Kwa-Zulu Natal. SA Flyer’s Trevor Cohen was there to capture the images for this photo essay. The SAAF surprised by flying two Gripens with its 3 HawkRead More →
(Main Pic- Siza Mzimela) Hilka Birns of CH Aviation reports that – “Former South African Express and South African Airways CEO Siza Mzimela and SA Express ex-chairpersons Tryphosa Ramano and Trevor Abrahams are amongst six former executives who have applied to the South African High Court to stop an investigationRead More →
February 2023 – The poor quality of African accident investigation reports is once again in the spotlight. THE FALLOUT FROM THE TWO Boeing Max crashes has been enormous – not just in the 346 lives lost, but in the inestimable damage to the once proud Boeing reputation for engineering excellence.Read More →
AS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE TRAVEL bounces back more strongly than expected from Covid, Africa has once again been left behind. The African aviation industry has struggled to compete on the world stage with its share of airline traffic having fallen from around 2% to currently 1.8% – despite having 20% ofRead More →
Nedbank’s Aircraft Finance head James Geldenhuys answers Guy Leitch’s questions about the state of post Covid aviation finance in Africa. GL: Has Covid and finance defaults made it harder for sub-Saharan African airlines to finance aircraft? JG: The Covid pandemic and associated fear has certainly damaged the industry on aRead More →
Addressing the pending skills shortage, Paramount Aerospace Systems (PAS), has qualified fifteen students as aircraft technicians and engineers. ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS a grant provided by South Africa’s Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) in 2019, which enabled seven students in early 2022 to complete the three-year course offered by Paramount, and toRead More →
THE RECOVERY of the southern African airline industry has been marked by striking successes and equally striking failures. The mix of winners and losers made it difficult to gauge the overall mood of the industry at the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) Annual General Assembly outside Cape Town. MakingRead More →
THE EDITOR: October 2022 – SAA is at a cross roads – and all its options are dead ends. SAA FACES TWO DEADLINES: First, and most immediate, the 90-day deadline (to 3 November) to provide proof of its viability to the air services licencing council (ASLC). Second; its promise toRead More →
