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Mango Airlines Seem To Be Lying About Internet On Board – Forced To Remove Claims
06 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Last year, Mango airlines famously became the first South African airline to offer in-flight internet access. Strangely, Mango also became the first South African airline to lie about having internet access on board. Yup, the Advertising Standards Authority has decided that, in order or you to use WiFi access as part of your marketing strategy, you need to actually have WiFi.
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South Africa Can Look Forward To A New Low Cost Airline
27 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Barely a month passes in South Africa without fresh news of additional competition in the low-cost airline space. Now, a band of completely new players in the market has entered stage left, and has announced that they will be in the sky by the “last quarter” of this year, with ticket sales set to get underway as early as next month.
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SAA Rated 9th Most Dangerous Airline In The World
23 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 15 Comments
The Annual Airline Safety Rankings have just come out, rating 60 airlines on the number and deadliness of the hull losses (destroyed airplanes) they have suffered in the past 30 years and how they have fared more recently. SAA came 9th. In the world.
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The Government Has A Plan For The Low-Cost Airline Industry
19 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Low-cost airports are one the ideas the Department of Transport is considering as part of a bigger plan to bring long-term financial sustainability to the low-cost airline industry.
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1time Airline Cancels Johannesburg To Mombasa Route
28 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
1time has announced in a statement that it will halt operations between Johannesburg and Mombasa – effective from September 17.
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European Parliament Gets Demand From Holland To Cancel SAA Landing Rights Over Anti-White Hiring Laws
24 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 64 Comments
Lucas Hartong, a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, has asked the European Parliament to cancel South African Airways’ landing rights in Europe over its anti-white hiring laws.
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AWESOME Idea, Private Air Travel For Everyone!
23 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Flying is a nightmare, or rather, the facilities surrounding flying are a nightmare. Checking in two hours prior to your flight, going through the entire security rigmarole which sees you unpacking half of luggage and then having to squeeze it back in, and then rushing onto an overcrowded airplane only to wedge yourself in between an overweight, nervous flyer and a hyperactive five-year-old first timer. Seems like there should be an easier solution, and now there just might be.
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Movie Producer’s Play-By-Play Tweets Of His Harrowing Flight Next To An Unruly, Unstable Ex-Marine
21 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“‘Hey that’s my seat man,’ I said. A quick drawing ‘fuck you its mine now’ was the response as I sat down next to him mumbling ‘charming’.” That’s pretty much how movie producer Cassian Elwes’s cross-country flight started when he found an unruly ex-marine in his seat, and it was all uphill from there.
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Yet Another 1Time Emergency Landing – Where Does It End?
21 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 20 Comments
The exact same 1time aircraft that was forced to make an emergency landing on August 5th this year was forced to do the same yesterday afternoon on its way to Durban from Cape Town.
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Russian Roulette In The Air: A 1Time Flight Might Just Be Your Last
07 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
“The plane that we were on was old and had sticky tape holding up the emergency exit sign,” says 1Time passenger about Sunday’s 1Time flight T6 653 that made an emergency landing shortly after take-off.
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SAA’s New Restrictive Check-In Baggage Policy, Still No Fat Seats For Fat People
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African Airways is introducing a new check-in baggage policy on September 5, 2012, and it restricts the number of pieces of baggage a passenger may check in, rather than the total weight of the passenger’s checked baggage.
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Yum! Delta Flights Now Serving In-Flight Needle Sandwiches
17 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ah business class, the good life, more comfortable, roomier seats, better service and, crucially, better food. Unless of course you were amongst a group of business class travelers on-board Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to Atlanta who were served sandwiches containing needles.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
17 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Qatar voted best airline in the world. Seal has moved on. Vodacom launches free roaming calls. Fleetwood Mac reunion. Shoprite shows massive growth. Sheen leaves twitter.
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Loud ‘Explosion’ On 1Time Airlines Flight Last Wednesday – What Happened?
15 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 10 Comments
1Time Airlines‘ flight T6 648 left Cape Town last week Wednesday (6 June) at 17h45 en route to Durban’s King Shaka airport. Like many flights you hear about (usually unconfirmed second-hand stories, never addressed by the airline), there was an ‘issue’ on board which no-one ever talks about again and the airline certainly doesn’t clarify. […]
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