September 2022 – WHILE THE REST OF AFRICA tries to rebuild its airline route networks following Covid, the Western Cape is succeeding in getting European and US Based airlines to prioritise the Cape Town route – even while they are cancelling other global routes due to airport congestion. The CapeRead More →
Look at me Mummy, I’m up here. That’s where it all started…up there with my head stuck out of the top of a Beech tree. High enough to be beyond reach and low enough to be seen by Mummy and other jealous members of the congregation. A hint of danger..aRead More →
Aden in 1987 was like a crumbling museum of British Colonialism. The British Empire east of Suez had died some twenty years previously, with the arrival of the Russians, who had been invited by the ‘Front for the Liberation of Socialist South Yemen’, ‘FLOSSY’, for short, to fill the newly-vacatedRead More →
IN ITS MAY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL Report, IATA notes that airlines based in Africa experienced a 91.8% year on year growth rate in their international RPKs in March. Together with Asia, Africa’s international RPKs lag more than the other regions in terms of recovery to pre-pandemic levels, which are currently stillRead More →
Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians, the destruction of entire cities, and the justified imposition of extraordinary sanctions against Russia. ON TOP OF THIS, it’s causing severe and dangerous wider global impacts, ranging from wheat shortages, to inflation and economicRead More →
THE CHINA EASTERN BOEING 737-800 crash has prompted a mass of disinformation from the internet. These range from duplicitous videos which only at the end say that it was not another Boeing Max crash, to outright deceit with fake videos from other crashes – most notably the Silk Air 737-300Read More →
(Part 1)- SA Air Force claims less than 25% availability Less than a quarter of the South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) inventory of aircraft is operable as budget cuts, COVID-19 and Denel’s capabilities are being eroded. Only 46 of the SAAF’s 217 aircraft are now operable, according to an ArmscorRead More →
THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT is pushing ahead with its part privatisation of SAA to “a Strategic Equity Partner”. The Takatso Consortium will own 51% of the airline and the Department of Public Enterprises 49%. The intention is to list the airline on the stock market as, “one way of addressingRead More →
ONE OF THE FEW CONSOLATIONS that we have had under the onslaught of Covid is that the disease will gradually become less virulent, even if only because, in the big scheme of things, it does a virus no good if it kills its host. The good news is that weRead More →
SA Flyer was launched in 1995. In 2006 by Guy Leitch assumed control as the editor and publisher. With over 300 monthly editions released to date, SA Flyer has established itself as the foremost authority and opinion leader on aviation insights news and trends for a host of loyal readersRead More →
