Stephen Grootes interviews Guy Leitch, SA Flyer Magazine Editor. FlySafair’s Licence Under Threat: Foreign Ownership Rules Breached 04:25/04:25 Budget-airline FlySafair is not compliant with foreign ownership rules, according to the Air Service Licensing Council. According to current regulations, foreign ownership of a domestically registered airline is limited to 25%. However,Read More →
Hugh Pryor Dan joined us in Angola. He was tall, athletically built, with a boyish hair style which sported what we suspected were carefully applied sun tints. His hair also disguised quite successfully his age which was nudging fifty. The Red Cross girls fell for Dan in a big wayRead More →
I WAS ASKED THE OTHER DAY by a senior SACAA official why I call it the ‘Commission Against Aviation’. I tried to explain the joke; that one of the roles of the SACAA was to develop aviation. Yet the problem is that the excessive regulation and arbitrary enforcement, coupled withRead More →
I have a long-standing and highly respected friend called Tom. Our friendship goes back over twenty years. We served together in the Air Wing in Oman. Tom’s son Charlie is my Godson. WE KEEP IN TOUCH on a regular basis and normally see each other at least once a year.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 →
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 →
(Laura McDermid – the remarkable exploits of Iris McCallum). UNICEF finally came to the realization that STOL aircraft such as the Twin Otter were better suited than the Cessna 402s when flying remote missions in East Africa, and as a result, they terminated their contract with SafariAir in 1989. THISRead More →
I am now 60 years old, so I am out of Part 135 operations. However, there is still some fire left in the hearth and so there may still be some sparks which I could offer to the Part 121 side of the aviation industry, if required. IT WOULD BERead More →
