All South African Airways articles – Page 7
-
News
SAA pledges action to 'break loss-making cycle'
South African Airways intends to take "urgent steps" to break its "loss-making cycle" after the country’s auditor general, Kimi Makwetu, released figures showing that the airline incurred a R5.56 billion ($470 million) net loss last year.
-
News
Top airline groups keep faith with incumbent chiefs in 2017
The world’s top airlines largely kept faith with their chief executives in 2017 as they navigated a year of record profits, with no changes occurring at any of the top 10 groups by revenue.
-
News
LHT to maintain CFM56 engines for Mango
South African Airways' budget subsidiary Mango has selected Lufthansa Technik to overhaul the CFM International CFM56 engines powering Boeing 737NGs.
-
News
SAA brings new A330s' interior in line with A320 fleet
South African Airways has based the cabin interior of its new Airbus A330s on that of its narrowbody fleet.
-
AnalysisANALYSIS: Ethiopian cements position as African rivals falter
A dominant theme in African commercial aviation this year has been the widening gap between Ethiopian Airlines’ fortunes and the misfortunes of its rivals in the region.
-
AnalysisANALYSIS: Fastjet turns attention to South Africa
Fastjet’s disclosure on 20 September that it will relocate its headquarters from London Gatwick to Johannesburg came as something of a surprise, given that the airline primarily operates out of Tanzania.
-
News
Star partners SAA and Avianca Brazil launch codeshare
Star Alliance partners South African Airways and Avianca Brazil have launched codeshare operations.
-
News
Fly Blue Crane applies for international route rights
South Africa's Fly Blue Crane has applied for rights to operate flights to Swaziland and Mozambique.
-
News
AirAsia X switches remaining A330s to re-engined variant
Long-haul low-cost operator AirAsia X has cancelled 11 Airbus A330-300s in favour of taking 11 re-engined A330neo jets.
-
News
Qantas to reduce Johannesburg capacity
Qantas Airways will cancel one weekly frequency on the Sydney-Johannesburg route from 3 February.
-
News
IATA: SAA 'not out of the woods' despite exceeding target - CEO
South African Airways’ acting chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout insists the Star Alliance carrier is not out of the woods yet, despite its successfully implemented 90-day turnaround plan outperforming its original savings target.
-
AnalysisANALYSIS: African carriers battle to fulfil potential
For many of Africa’s carriers 2013 represented some financial progress, but the pressures remain clear. Collective profits for those African carriers among the top 150 airlines to have reported 2013 figures, shows a return to small profit at both a net and operating level after losses in 2012.
-
News
SAA maintains partnership with SR Technics
SR Technics will continue to service the engines powering South African Airways' Airbus A340-200/-300 fleet until 2018, after the contract was extended by five years.